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Dean Karlan
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Dean Karlan
@deankarlan
Economics and Finance Professor, Northwestern University; founder, Innovations for Poverty Action; former Chief Economist, USAID
- Why don’t more economists open their tweets with “In this tweet”, so their tweets can mirror the writing quality of their papers? #EconTwitter
- Wow wow wow. Thank you Abhijit, Esther & Michael for all you have done for economics and the world!!! And thank you to the thousands (!) of dedicated people at @poverty_action and @JPAL who have made this possible!!BREAKING NEWS: The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” #NobelPrize
- 🚨New NBER Working Paper🚨 👉Bayesian Meta-Analysis on the Impacts of Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) in Low & Middle Income Countries! Considering a broad set of outcomes, we find strong & persistent pos effects of💰, w/ interesting nuances. A short primer in 22 tweets🧵
- Happy Birthday @poverty_action! 17 years and counting. Too bad you won't be able to vote next year. Thanks to all current and past staff and partners for all you have done!
- I'm pleased to share an exciting job opening to lead the new @USAID Office of the Chief Economist's "Evidence Use" team. Evidence here mainly refers to evidence of cost-effectiveness. The closing date is Aug 7th. 1/2
- Why oh why do academics (or is this an economist thing?) love to say "We are the first to test whether .....". As an editor, I have yet to see such a claim sit nicely with referees. There are either enough qualifiers on the statement to make it come across as silly
- So proud of my daughter’s answer in college to “why do you want to do a senior thesis?”: “Because I have a question and I do not know the answer.” @KarlanGabriela
- Replying to @deankarlanHow about instead: (1) state what you are doing. (2) tell us what others have done that is similar, and (3) tell us how this is different and why those differences are important.
- 🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 📝 Human Capital at Home: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in the Philippines 🇵🇭 We tested an 8-week home-based program to boost early math & phonics skills, empowering parents and caregivers to become teachers! Summary in 13 tweets 🧵👇
- 🚨 Update on our UCT meta-analysis! 🚨 Remember our NBER paper on the impacts of 💰Unconditional Cash Transfers💰in LMICs? We just added new analysis on labor, contextual factors, model validation, & more! 📌 You can find the original thread here: x.com/deankarlan/sta…
🆕 What broad lessons have we learned from 115 studies on unconditional cash transfers? Today on VoxDev, @TommasoCrosta, @deankarlan, @JFinleyOng, @rueschenpoehler & @chrisudry (@NU_GPRL @KelloggSchool) explore the impacts of cash transfers: voxdev.org/topic/social-p… - Thanks @PowerUSAID, am thrilled and honored to be on your team. Been drinking at the fire hydrant all week!
- If you think about it, one never really stops clapping. The time in between claps just varies a lot.
