Paolo Abarcar
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Economist @MathematicaNow. Development research, program eval, and all things migration. Proud Pinoy. Former @cgdev @umichECON @fordschool @ateneodemanilau
Washington, DC
Joined December 2008
🔥 Our revised paper on nurse migration is finally out! 🔥 We study whether the U.S's aggressive recruitment of nurses from the Philippines in the 2000s led to a "brain drain." https://t.co/q6KCKPH3bt
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One of the most popular articles of 2024 ➡️ Brain drain vs brain gain: Does international migration deplete poor countries of skilled workers? by @pabarcar & @ctheoharides outlining their research on nurses migrating from the Philippines ⤵️ https://t.co/pqipEkOD19
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Opportunities for nurses to migrate abroad can increase the supply of educated nurses at home
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Anyway, I'll be here for the last day of the conference with @MathematicaNow. Please feel free to connect!
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These are hard questions, and requires going beyond logic models, collecting data. It requires testing ideas, and putting in place studies. Because a lot of times, we might find, we are wrong.
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And that role is to strike some fear. We collect data on outcomes and they look good so we pat ourselves on the back. But what is the counterfactual? And did we just displace the problem because we failed to account for the underlying economic environment?
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Appreciated this keynote by @deankarlan at the GYEO 2024 conference, if only to be reminded of our role as economists in a room full of implementers. I certainly find myself as the only economist in the room at times.
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In year 10: substantial household earnings were from city-based remittances
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In year 1: beneficiaries of the graduation program were richer because they had more productive assets (cows, goats) In year 3: they were operating non-farm microenterprises and earning more money In year 7: increased incomes were mostly from wage employment in cities
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I am very late to read this paper (and the lit on graduation programs in general) but I thought this finding perfectly captures why development leads to migration and vice versa. https://t.co/yJusvHPqbW
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(December 2021) - This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows...
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Any suggestions on papers that apply the Athey and Imbens 2016 causal tree approach and present the results really well? #Econtwitter
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Please RT: Our 100 new @malengo students need mentors! You will support them in university applications and preparing for life abroad. Time commitment 2–5h/month. You can do this remotely, and German skills are NOT required. You'll be paid. Details: https://t.co/0sFT4KGn7B
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Also, the biggest inequalities in life occur *where* you're born. Country of birth is the most important determinant of life outcomes. This is why more migration should be permitted.
The biggest inequalities in life occur at birth. Some are born abysmally poor, some rich beyond imagination. This has nothing to do with their hard work & has no moral justification. This is the reason why an inheritance tax to curb inequality is a must in any civilized society.
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Exposing firms to a refugee worker through a weeklong internship led them to hirednearly three times as many refugee workers compared to firms in the control group. Fascinating intervention aimed to address misconceptions about refugee skills https://t.co/u6oBA34KLI
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Working together with one refugee worker for one week increases firms’ likelihood to hire more refugees by adjusting business owners’ beliefs about refugees’ skills
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This is brain gain. Like they're planting seeds as they leave.
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Been playing around with ChatGPT, and according to it, this is brain drain.
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Unfortunately, one of the best examples of effective communication on migration is "brain drain." It conjures a vivid image. It rhymes.
A masterful reflection by @helen_dempster on why despite academic consensus on many things migration, we fail to influence the public or policymaking. We preach to the choir instead of the middle... We fail to offer compelling narratives... https://t.co/PXCj2L00p5
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A masterful reflection by @helen_dempster on why despite academic consensus on many things migration, we fail to influence the public or policymaking. We preach to the choir instead of the middle... We fail to offer compelling narratives... https://t.co/PXCj2L00p5
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Migration research takes place within a rapidly evolving, contested, and polarized space. It is difficult for researchers who are seeking to influence policymaking on migration to communicate their...
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Yes, many thanks to @mecaballero14 and @IWPResearch for today's great conference.
Thank you, @mecaballero14, and all the organizers of the @IWPResearch Care Conference for inviting me to present today! I learned a lot from so many engaging presentations!
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Speaking today in a session on Care, Immigration, and Job Quality. Not too sure why they wanted a dev't economist to speak here 😂 but I want to bring a global perspective on healthcare workers and migration policy
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