I am not sure what possessed me to get an extended warranty on my refrigerator purchased in 2019 but my experience with @New_Leaf_SC after my KitchenAid was "condemned" last month has been incredibly frustrating.

Brown grad student Henrique Pita Barros tests a low-cost intervention to connect displaced persons and members of their host community in Mozambique

3/3 Urban, housing size, deregulation, India https://t.co/DYCn20BUVy Bargaining, income hiding, work incentives, Cambodia

2/3 Childcare, health, environment, Brazil https://t.co/JxLLb7qTxn Religion, media, women, Brazil

1/3 Do take a look at Brown's fascinating and talented crop of development students on the market (A-Z). Some keywords to get you started-- Conflict, refugees, community meetings, Mozambique https://t.co/bfjCecCEmD Water, women, religion, Middle East

Anybody figure out how to disable the annoying "more to discover" window that shows up on the @nytimes digital web page when you are trying to read an article?

I ran a JDE editor decision report through ChatGPT. It provided an excellent response letter. But of course ChatGPT had not done the things in the letter. I then read the actual author response and I felt skeptical about whether the author had done them. Is this a good thing?

Francis Collins NIH Director on PBS "You know, maybe we underinvested in research on human behavior."

The PSTC is inviting applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellow to start on or around July 1, 2022. To apply or learn more about the position, please visit the official listing on Interfolio.

How does risk impact schooling decisions in rural India? Research shows that a 100% increase in shocks (consumption volatility due to poor rainfall) reduces the probability of school attendance by 4-5%. A program like MGNREGA can increase school attendance by 1 percentage point.

A five-year award from the @NIH will advance research at @PSTC_Brown that confronts health inequities, economic divides and other societal problems.

Puzzling over China's record on poverty? Here is our effort to reconcile conflicting numbers, leading to our new series back to 1981, anchored to official lines. Yes, poverty counts fell, but there is still much poverty left. (50 days free JDE access.) https://t.co/DOqVQrDlsV

In @WorldBank Blogs, @BrownUniversity Prof Andrew Foster says: "I think of development research as a kind of spinning orbit, a quasar...where each element feeds into each other but also emits bits of information relevant to its own particular context."

Is it just me, or does it seem like articles about why a particular country is doing surprisingly well with COVID are a leading indicator of a large spike? Anyone know of a systematic study (perhaps in other contexts)?

My daughter went back to in-person school yesterday, and I missed her at lunch. I am wondering, as we all move towards *normal,* if any of us will grieve the precious chaos of the past year being confined to our homes with our loved ones 24 hours a day, 7 days a week...

Ambitious While Female (and Economist) - Why I am cautiously optimistic about the state of women in the field of economics.

Four female economics professors talked about their journey into academia, their experiences navigating gender dynamics and what equity might look like for the field. https://t.co/wzK20T5Ny2

“Give me your tired (first year students), your poor (first year students), your huddled masses yearning to pass their core exams (also first year students).” I’m back, America. COVID cohort, get ready to empty that tank!

Not surprisingly, it is a struggle to get so many papers reviewed. Desk rejection rates>50% at most journals, up to 85%. Conditional on going to referees, 3-4 months is still average time for review. Thanks again to all the journal editors and staff for sharing their stats. 4/4

Development journals received more than 10,000 submissions in 2020!!! This is a large increase compared to 7,644 in these same journals in 2019. Acceptance rates were under 10% at 6 journals and under 5% at 2. 3/4