Abubakr Ayesh
@abubakrayesh
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Assistant Professor @Trinity_U. Adjunct @UVicEconomics. @MSUAFRE & @LifeAtLUMS alum. Environment, Development & Econ History. Pseudo Intellectual on Caffeine.
San Antonio TX
Joined June 2014
Not very active on this space anymore, but I did a brief review of my work on the effect of British India's Partition ( https://t.co/MEH5IIbAw4) on human capital attainment.
Can uprooted children turn forced displacement into an unexpected driver of educational success? Abubakr Ayesh , Trinity University , discusses: https://t.co/VNgM1FH4Do
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📢 Free Virtual Course for Economics Students! The ReCIPE (@cepr_org) research programme is hosting a course on ‘Key Concepts for Economies in Conflict and Fragile Settings’, taught by a series of experts in the field. More details & registration: https://t.co/uatHasTYJo
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Ha-Joon Chang once told me that trying to learn about political economy and economic history in an economics department is like trying to learn about atheism in the Catholic church. He captured how I had been feeling my entire undergrad, stuck in an economics department.
These Western professors of neoclassical "economics" who boast of having never read Adam Smith or Marx are illustrating exactly what is wrong with their field. They are proud of their ignorance. Their claim to not be "ideological" is in fact the perfect demonstration of their
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1/ How do climate shocks reshape lives inside households? 🏠🌍 My #JMP explores how climate shocks can change the way household members share resources, deepening intrahousehold inequalities. This has important implications for climate resilience and policy design. Full paper:
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Deadline for submissions is 10 days away (Nov 5) - can't wait to see what interesting research you all are up to! We'll consider any labor/public paper (broadly defined) with at least one LAC co-author, though any author may present. Submit!
If you're at a liberal arts college and have a labor/public econ project, consider submitting to our LAC-PaL virtual seminar series. Info at the call for papers for the Spring 2025 semester is here:
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I've finalised next year's outline for my course, "Development Economics", which I teach at Cambridge. Here are the 10 key books on the reading list.
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I am now preparing some DiD lecture slides to give a talk at Amazon, and I have created this DiD Checklist. I am sharing them here in case some of you find it useful!
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Pleased to share that my 2/3 chapter of my PhD dissertation is published. Using a DiD approach, I study the educational attainment of displaced children during the 1947 Partition of British India. More details here: https://t.co/YAWsewmwA0
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After some great commentary from Josh Lewis, we've got @abubakrayesh up talking about residential schools, the Indian Act, and assimilation (which is joint with @DonnFeir, @MaggieECJones, Samuel Shipley, and me).
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Really happy to share that ⬇ paper with @AndrabiTahir @BauNatalie Jishnu Das & @aikhwaja has been accepted at @QJEHarvard! TLDR; Giving grants to public schools (in Pakistan) can improve learning in both sectors due to competition. Final paper here: https://t.co/E9BVbGYYhM.
🚨New @nberpubs WP Alert!🚨 w/ @AndrabiTahir @BauNatalie Jishnu Das & @aikhwaja. We evaluate the effects of providing grants to public schools on learning outcomes in public & private schools in Pakistan. Spoiler: learning improves in both sectors! https://t.co/m0RBKHbdeb
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It's been a phenomenal year for cool young researcher! Excited to share the work of *40* great development economists based all around the world, here's a recap 🧵. . .follow them, read + cite their papers, look out for them!
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Haven't been here since Twitter turned "X" but forthcoming in @JEEM_tweets is my work on ag fires, pollution & crime. Using an IV based on wind direction, I find air pollution increases violent crime. Pollution's effect on men's labor market outcomes is an important mechanism.
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Esther Duflo and I are delighted to put our @MITEcon PhD. Micro Development Economics course, 14.771, online @MITOCW. All videos, syllabi, and lecture notes are free and open for all, including for use in your own classes. https://t.co/C222hV6Ffx
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This course provides rigorous introduction to core microeconomic issues in economic development, focusing on both key theoretical contributions and empirical applications to understand both why some...
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I’m fairly fluent in English but I start struggling when I’m tired. Even after all these years of living abroad. Is ‘too tired to talk in English’ a thing with other non native speakers too?
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Every year around grad school app season, this type of sentiment pops up... It is flat out FALSE and unnecessarily discourages people away from econ phds. Let's take a look at an example + data... 1/
The competition in Academic econ is so cutthroat at this point that if you don't know you want to get a PhD by 14 (and how to get one!) the odds are stacked way against you. It's a large part of the reason why the discipline is not diverse and why success is so hereditary.
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Add to this, the unequal access of pre-docs for internationals, given the weird US visa systems. The word "passion" in original tweet can also be replaced by "family resources" "less responsibilities" "financial privilege" etc etc
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The three hours, until the shooter was at large, were very stressful sitting thousands of miles away. I can only imagine what Spartans in EL are going through. I hope that everyone heals from this (and I hope that America finds a solution to its gun problem). Spartans Will!
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Over 5 yrs at MSU, I met some amazing undergrad AFRE students as a TA & instructor, and budding researchers from various disciplines as a PhD student, made friends from all across the world, and was guided by excellent mentors. I hope and pray that all of you are coping fine.
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3 of my junior PhD students were stuck in there for over 4 hrs while the shooter was at large. I am not an early morning person and often work late at night; the thought that, on most days, I would also have been at Cook Hall at 8:15 pm -when the attack took place- was unnerving
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