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Dev Patel
911 posts
Dev Patel
@dev_a_patel
Now: Post-Doc at Harvard/MIT
Next: Assistant Professor in Economics & IBES at Brown
Joined December 2012
- Fantastic paper by Siwan Anderson: Female HIV rates are significantly higher in common law countries where women have weaker marital property rights. Forthcoming in AER (ungated here: goo.gl/T3eyjZ)
- Fascinating paper: India's child labor ban *increased* # child workers b/c wages fell. Bharadwaj, Lakdawala, & Li: prbharadwaj.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/childl…
- Today I presented my paper on mistaken beliefs in the Indian Civil Service. I started by saying 3 million Indian college grads last year vied for 3,000 spots. Was then asked about external validity to Harvard college admissions. In hindsight, I should have quoted @karthik_econ!When presenting my JMP (bit.ly/2GGE6y0), a very senior US labor economist asked: "Great experiment, but can you explain how is this relevant to the US", and I couldn't stop myself from saying:"I am not going to apologize for only being relevant to 1.3 billion people"
- Fascinating new paper: U.S. counties w/ more immigrants 100 years ago are richer & more educated now. @nnunn99 et al scholar.harvard.edu/files/nunn/fil…
- Comparing close elections, great paper shows share of road contractors with last name matching politician's jumps 83% after victory, with higher construction costs and more missing roads. New in JDE: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
- Fascinating new paper w/ implications for UBI: price effects of cash versus in-kind transfers by @seema_econ et al povertyactionlab.org/sites/default/…
- The kinds of sentences that give economists a bad rep. (Part of a very cool new paper on divorce's impact on FLFPR) pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10…
- Female plaintiffs are 7 percent more likely to win compensation in workplace sex discrimination cases when they are randomly assigned to a female judge. Important work by Matthew Knepper: goo.gl/mSrQc8
- Replying to @JustinSandefurGood time to remind ourselves that the correlation between the Doing Business index and actual firm behavior is literally *zero* aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
- Giving payments directly into bank accounts instead of in cash increases savings 131% within three months in India. No, that's not a typo. Fascinating paper by @VincentSomville and Vandewalle forthcoming in AEJ: Applied aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
- One of the most depressing graphs I've ever made: In South Africa, more than twice as many women die during pregnancy today than 20 yrs ago.
GIF - Across gender, age, and education, adults in poor countries work more hours than those in rich ones, implying worse global welfare inequality than we thought. Forthcoming in the AER from Bick et al.: assets.aeaweb.org/assets/product…
