Sam Asher
@thesamasherdevelopment economist. assoc prof @imperialcollege london. cofounder @devdatalab. india, open data, urbanism, mountains, and @celtics.
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📢 SHRUG users 📢 We released a significant update to SHRUG last week. Please read on how it might affect you. 🧵 TL;DR: We made corrected shrid boundaries around some urban outgrowths. Only about 500 shrids have changed, but these will cause merge errors. 1/N
We're hiring at @ImperialBiz! Open field, open rank, not in the US....
My department @ImperialBiz is hiring: econjobmarket.org/positions/11182 Apply by November 25! Open to all fields/all levels. It's a wonderful place to be - smart, supportive colleagues and the best city in the world!
Thank you kartik and to @karthik_econ for connecting me to this amazing coauthor. Do check out my JMP. The papers illustrate the complexity of the rural labor markets in south India and how they've been shaped by 200 yr old land policies and new agricultural technology
Grateful to get the Weiss distinguished PhD research paper award at NEUDC with @BrownstoneEcon for our paper on land concentration and monopsony power in labor markets
🚨Thrilled to share our new paper "Causal Claims in Economics"! 🚨 @fetzert and I analysed over 44,000 economics papers using AI to create a knowledge graph of economics and map out causal relationships. Here's what we found 🧵👇
@kanmahajan and I (among others) are looking for Research Associates interested in working with data and on policy-relevant research. Come work with us at the Isaac Centre for Public Policy at @AshokaUniv @EconAtAshoka @vksdimble @MishraPrac Apply here: shorturl.at/3MUlJ
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Egypt has had malaria for millennia. King Tutankhamen died of malaria. After a century-long public health effort, Egypt has just been declared malaria-free. who.int/news/item/20-1… HT @anildash
We did a podcast! This was fun, add to your feed if your want to hear more about our work on the childhoods of the Nobel laureates.
⭐ VoxTalks Economics NEW EPISODE ⭐ What sort of people win #NobelPrize & what does that tell us about equality of opportunity? @paulnovosad @dartmouth & @thesamasher @imperialcollege tell @timsvengali @cepr_org what they have discovered. Subscribe: podfollow.com/voxtalks
We did a podcast! Super fun talking to Tim about our new work on the backgrounds of Nobel Prize winners. Wish I had gotten him to teach me how to do that cool radio voice...
⭐ VoxTalks Economics NEW EPISODE ⭐ What sort of people win #NobelPrize & what does that tell us about equality of opportunity? @paulnovosad @dartmouth & @thesamasher @imperialcollege tell @timsvengali @cepr_org what they have discovered. Subscribe: podfollow.com/voxtalks
🚨New paper alert! Check out Paul's awesome thread on our new paper on equality of opportunity in scientific achievement. For the time strapped: Nobel laureates come from very elite backgrounds...but much much more in the 🧵...
What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N
What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N
Some points that should be basic, just to reiterate Pro Israel ≠ pro Netanyahu Pro Palestine ≠ pro Hamas Pro Israel ≠ anti Palestine Pro Palestine ≠ anti Israel Of course, some people can hold multiple of these views. Many combinations exist. But they are not the same.
** New WP alert ** Slack and Economic Development, with @mwwalkerecon, @nachi_365, @tedmiguel, @soliman_felix, @TilmanGraff We study the causes and macroeconomic consequences of slack in small firms. drive.google.com/file/d/1heKgka…
It is European Union 🇪🇺 Miracle !! Using Synthetic control, I show that GDP per capita of the countries that joined 🇪🇺 in 2004 is 33% higher See the @voxeu (shorturl.at/TbaHy), the podcast (shorturl.at/jz4cW) or the paper (shorturl.at/KbCX7)
Has anyone seen a report or a paper explaining how Poland pulled this off?
Sure to be an amazing workshop! I've come to realize that my favorite conferences the ones that bring together a small number of closely related papers and researchers to really learn from each other.
Has anyone seen a report or a paper explaining how Poland pulled this off?
📢 Call for papers for the Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development conference at ISI Delhi Dec 19-24 Do consider for top-quality research & networking ++ fantastic organization, sunny Delhi winter weather & great food 🤓 Submission link: bit.ly/4dXsP9K
Data For India is looking to hire a talented and experienced Lead Frontend Engineer with a strong focus on React and overall user experience. If this is you, and you're excited about data and what we're doing, DM me with a few lines about yourself and I'll send you a full JD.
Americans really don't understand how rich they are compared to almost everyone else on the planet.
Econ hive mind, help! I teach intro to data analysis to MSc's, many of whom don't have any coding background. We've previously gotten them access to DataCamp to build skills on their own but now it might be too expensive for Imperial -- any ideas on alternatives? #econtwitter
The onshore wind ban has been in place for 9 years. We've been in government for 72 hours, we've lifted it. That's the pace we're going to move at.
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