Justin Sandefur
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Justin Sandefur
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- The pressure to shut down the PA vote count is going to be insane. Even if the 538 forecast for PA proves accurate (Biden +5), given partisan disparities in mail-in voting, Trump could hold a 16 POINT lead by the end of Tue night. fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-p…
- That censored World Bank paper is now online: "aid disbursements to highly aid dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management" nielsjohannesen.net/wp-content/upl… by @jorgenja et al
- Seems @UChicago is shutting down its economics dept. intellectualtakeout.org/blog/univ-chic… ht @crampell
- Happy to have co-signed this letter with 86 @CGDev colleagues applauding our leadership's stand for trans rights, and supporting an appeal of the recent Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling.
- Replying to @JustinSandefurThen we wait patiently through 3 more days of counting while, I assume, every nutcase militia in America descends on PA election officials?
- Ouch. Development economics, ostensibly dedicated to improving the well-being of people in developing countries, is almost devoid of people based in those countries. - JDE editors: 2 of 69 - JPAL affiliates: 5% - ABCDE presenters: 7% - RCT authors: <10%
- See Americans aren't worried about Zika at... wait a second
- Some people like cute titles for econ papers, others hate them. Some prefer detailed, explanatory titles. But we all know the real power move is a 1-word title. 🧵
- A few days aga, @AiyarYamini wrote in The Economist about the shrinking space for independent civil society in India. Today the @CPR_India board accepted her resignation as CEO. Case in point.
- Some progress. (Clockwise) 1. IMF managing director 2. World Bank CEO 3. World Bank chief economist 4. IMF chief economist imf.org/en/News/Articl…
- New from me: “How economists got Africa’s AIDS epidemic wrong” In the '00s, cost-effectiveness analysis said sending HIV drugs to low-income countries was a bad use of money--drugs that ended up saving millions of lives. Have we learned our lesson? cgdev.org/blog/how-econo… 1/
- Highly anticipated World Bank audit report is out. Finding: 9 of 15 staff members on the Doing Business team say management pressured them to manipulate data. 8 complied. worldbank.org/en/news/statem… (1/n)
- Anybody else remember hearing stories from the late ‘00s about how many of the MIT PhD students didn’t want to take Duflo’s courses because she wasn’t a serious economist? Not enough math, yadda yadda. Perhaps apocryphal. In any case... Lol.2019 Economic Sciences Laureate Esther Duflo, born in 1972, is the second woman and the youngest person to be awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences. #NobelFacts #NobelPrize
