Jason Kerwin
@jt_kerwin
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Development economist at the University of Washington. Hawaiʻi born, Stanford alum, Michigan PhD. Views my own.
Seattle, WA
Joined April 2011
Last Thursday I gave this quarter's Paul Heyne Seminar. My talk was about why USAID is great for America and also the world, why we should keep it, and how we can make it even better. A key point is that it is the best brand in the industry, by far.
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This is a picture I took in Ghana. Look at all the mini splits! Do they have A/C everywhere? Not yet, but everyplace that can afford it has it, and they actually work. My hotel room was way more comfortable than any of the ones I stayed at in Italy.
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Africa is 3000 years ahead of the West
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RT @lymanstoneky: This article highlighting @JesusFerna7026 's critiques of the UN WPP by @MarcNovicoff is interesting, but I wish he'd del….
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RT @nick_kapur: It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
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RT @moultano: How did he get this idea into his head in the first place? Who was whispering things about USAID in his ear, and why?.
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I like foreign languages and one should be able to study them in college, mostly as a launching point for a study abroad where you could really learn them.
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Does not seem great to eliminate statistics as a major. But not all of these cuts seem bad to me: undergraduate majors in a specific foreign language are likely a waste of time.
Looks like Indiana just nuked from orbit one of the great research universities of the world. Sickening.
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RT @literalbanana: I'm reading Robert Sapolsky's Determined: Life Without Free Will as a mild form of self harm and here are two perfect pa….
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RT @maddoxrules: I could go on and on for days about how stupid, counter-productive and ineffectual socialism is. Yet in the face of unprec….
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Receipts:.
We correctly forecasted the current population over 40 years ago:.
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We correctly forecasted the current population over 40 years ago:.
@Polit_eurOpines @SHamiltonian Long-run population projections are very accurate. There aren’t any forecasts from 1950 but predictions from 1968 were quite accurate in 2000 and predictions from 1980 were almost exactly correct for 2022.
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Demography is very much unlike other domains: we can forecast populations many decades in the future, and **we have done it already**(!!). Why is this possible? Because the mothers of the people who will be prime-age workers in 30 years are *already alive*.
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This graph is correct
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Demography is very much unlike other domains: we can forecast populations many decades in the future, and **we have done it already**(!!). Why is this possible? Because the mothers of the people who will be prime-age workers in 30 years are *already alive*.
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RT @moultano: Today I encountered a Starbucks that was ambivalent about being a place to buy coffee. Instead it wants to be a place to rece….
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RT @vikhyatk: 1. announce you're building a cheating app.2. release a meeting note taking app.3. ???.4. profit.
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RT @brianschatz: We cannot get nuclear or geothermal energy on the grid for at least 5-8 years, optimistically. Only solar and wind are und….
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