Akib Khan
@akib_kn
@misum_sse @handels_sse ex-@EconomicsUU @WorldBank @IDinsight @BRACJPGSPH @poverty_action @The_IGC @icddr_b; human capital, immigration, experiments; 🇧🇩 🇸🇪
(Even) more self-promotion: The paper is now online at JPubE (open access): sciencedirect.com/science/articl… What's next? Securing funding for the long-run follow-up. These kids are (hopefully) at the secondary school now. Would highly appreciate any leads. x.com/akib_kn/status…
Finally! A natural, at-scale field experiment on a home visiting program in Bangladesh, with the novelty being the attempt to exploit economies of scope by leveraging a pre-existing public child-service delivery platform. Starting with the service providers, 1/
I wouldn't actually mind the latter if that aligned well with the former. That there isn't enough of an intersection is unfortunate (but not surprising).
Jishnu says most common question he gets at conferences from students is not "how can I work on questions that are relevant and important to LMICs" but "will this question get me a paper in QJE or other top journal"
With each passing day here, I feel increasingly better about my decision to branch out beyond dev econ.
What's the German word for 'the bright idea of having beef 'bhoona' while profusely sweating in 40 degrees'? Asking for a friend who is almost always on the cusp of a food+heat-coma these days.
What's the latest evidence on who gets replicated in econ? E.g., are high-profile/senior authors more/less likely to be replicated than juniors (ceteris paribus)?* My prior leans towards some self-censorship but happy to be refuted by data. *I know Mueller-Langer et al. (2019).
If you are living in a country with even an iota of reasonably functioning democracy: Embrace it, engage with it, cling to it with everything you've got. You are probably underrating it on the margin.
Have had my fill of sound, spices, and socializing -- I need to lie down and be silent for at least two years.
Back in Dhaka after six years. The feeling that hits me — as it does every time I return — is sheer amazement at how creative, gritty, and patient people are. Despite everything (and that’s a long list of not-so-good things that happen to them), they strive and they thrive.
India is nowhere close to being the "4th most equal country in the world". To the contrary, it might even be one of the most unequal. #BillionaireRaj Read this "Explained Economics" piece by @ieuditmisra & don't let propaganda fool you. Short thread with main issues at hand.
🚨 New on VoxDev! 🚨 Excited to share a new VoxDev article featuring our research on enforcement spillovers in Brazil. In this paper, we explore how enforcing labor laws in some firms can affect compliance in other firms—not through penalties, but through their networks!
🆕 Disability employment quotas in Brazil: Enforcing the law with limited capacity Today on VoxDev, Samuel Berlinski (@the_IDB) & @GageteJessica (@FbkIrvapp @FBK_research) discuss how strategic enforcement can multiply policy impact: voxdev.org/topic/labour-m…
Why doesn't this flow from poor to rich countries?* *Yes, bidet, I know, but this is unambiguously better.
This started as a casual question in a second-year course: Do siblings from rich and poor families differ in how similar they are to each other? Thanks to fantastic coauthors, that curiosity has turned into a short descriptive paper now out in Labour Economics. 🧵