Agha Ali Akram
@AghaAliAkram
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Development economics, public health, all opinions my own.
Joined May 2012
We need YOU! Opening for an Asst Manager/Senior RA for my WASH RCT in Karachi (w/ Ali A [Mathematica], Gabriella F [Kennedy Sch] & Reshma H [Harvard Business Sch]). Pls spread the word! Happy to answer queries via DM/email. @econ_ra
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This paper is totally crazy: https://t.co/IPDo6Fo7EB Originally they intended to test the impact of parateachers in Guinea Bissau a la this paper ( https://t.co/dzfSsK7JKj) in The Gambia, but the people they trained held out for way higher wages and sued them(!). After winning...
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@OsmSiddiqi @AghaAliAkram @jhaushofer @mushfiq_econ @injipuli All of you may already be familiar with this, but Mercy Corps is conducting what looks like a pretty close replication of no lean season, but in Niger. https://t.co/JqkApJLrW5
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‘Energy, Environment & Public Health’ Cluster The fellows in this Cluster are working on Pakistan’s critical environmental challenges, energy demand, access, efficiency and conservation and on critical public health issues across the country
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I have discovered, to my dismay, that I am always Reviewer 2. I'm just an as***le. I am never nice. Sorry to whichever unfortunate has the bad luck of getting me as a reviewer.
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cc: @DesiMountaineer - seems about right!
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This is funny! cc: @AliHasanain
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Neat! Really cool and very policy relevant work on groundwater use. Proper environmental econ! Nice job @SanvalNasim :)
📢 I have published my paper titled “Groundwater management under heterogeneous land tenure arrangement” in Resource and Energy Economics. My co-authors are Steven Helfand and Ariel Dinar, both at UC Riverside. \1 https://t.co/OVUMTAXaSr
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Two centuries of rapid global population growth will come to an end. This is how world population growth peaked in 1968 and has been going down almost continually ever since, possibly falling below 0.1% in 2100 according to the UN’s projection https://t.co/oGMJ0m1m9g
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Yes, please!
Hey #EconTwitter, what's the best system to allow students to make office hour appointments that auto populate to my Google calendar?
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Ohmygod!!! How did I not see this in @dmckenzie001's last Weekly Links - dad jokes in @Stata! cc: @Mahrukh__Khan
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Long story short, the model implies that the 'optimal' policy when calibrated to, say, Uganda, would have a much less strict lockdown, reducing both covid infections and consumption levels less than the same model calibrated to US incomes and infection fatality rates. 7/
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cc: @MahaRehman1
Should poorer countries with younger populations have equally strict lockdowns? https://t.co/PrqmOFGfp4 We have a new paper (and blog) trying to reconcile conflicting perspectives from economists during the pandemic. With @TCarnap @ingvildalm @TessaBold and @SeleneGhisolfi 1/
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Poorly explain what you do for a living.
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30% of crop is wastage post harvest due to lack of storage facilities, poor transportation, ineffective marketing, selling practices. Needs intervention on multiple levels: 1. Increase storage capacity. Majority of farmers cultivate small-holdings; do not have storage capacity
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Yep, and on the reduce spoilage front I recommend taking a look at my colleague @AsadSaher's excellent work on the impact of cellphones on coordinating produce markets better = reduced spoilage. Podcast coming soon! cc: @umairjav
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30% of crop is wastage post harvest due to lack of storage facilities, poor transportation, ineffective marketing, selling practices. Needs intervention on multiple levels: 1. Increase storage capacity. Majority of farmers cultivate small-holdings; do not have storage capacity
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