Honored to serve on the Statistical Advisory Panel for @UNDP #HDR2025. The UN Multidimensional Deprivation Index will be informed by our research with @IRP_UW. #SDG #1 calls for end to poverty in ALL its forms. Research @GeorgiaTech is making global impact!

#econtwitter I am thinking of organizing a session for SEA 2025. I have a work in progress on technology and norms. I am considering to collect papers around similar topics. If you have relevant papers, please DM me.

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @rmgonzalez046 @GATechEcon who works on topics related to conflict, crime + public health, often using digital data

Excited to host 5th Annual SEEDS conference @GeorgiaTech on April 24-25. Great networking opportunity with senior scholars. @anjalit2020 @oshem @Abu_Shonchoy @orgul_ozturk Submit abstract by Monday, March 3. https://t.co/LWuADv9Ezg

Please submit your paper for the 2024 NBER Development Economics fall program meeting, to be held December 6. The submission deadline is September 13 at midnight eastern time. Please submit here: https://t.co/rDyiq0BLLw

Nearly 150 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa lack access to the amount and quality of food they need. @GATechEcon Ioanna Maria Spyrou, Ph.D. candidate, is using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to reduce food insecurity in Africa. https://t.co/8nPYDHxlFM

The 4th SEEDS conference was a big success! More than 40 scholars from multiple disciplines, nationwide and abroad attended. 50% were junior scholars. #mentoring #econtwitter #globaldevelopment Superb keynote address by @FranciscaAntman and @AlexiousButler

Thank you to all the scholars who attended the Southeast Exchange of Development Studies (SEEDS) conference. The annual event hosts social scientists from a variety of fields, including economics, international affairs, political science, public policy, & sociology. #EconTwitter

Excited to host the 4th Annual SEEDS conf. @GeorgiaTech on April 25-26! More than 40 presenters, 50% junior scholars. Looking fwd. to welcoming @FranciscaAntman @Abu_Shonchoy @CharlesHankla @PalomaLdm @MdShahadathHo18 @xiaohuitai and many more

Herbicides widely used in agriculture increase infant mortality Last week on VoxDev, Mateus Dias, @RudiRocha_Econ & Rodrigo R. Soares (@Insper) outlined evidence on the impacts of glyphosate use in Brazil. Read here: https://t.co/EBqTksiplq

Policies to alleviate material hardship, critical for improving people’s wellbeing, aren't by themselves sufficient to also alleviate the social burden of crime, from Jens Ludwig and Kevin Schnepel https://t.co/Hj1PuKxcuR

Violence in Afghanistan causes people to reduce mobile money use and increase cash holdings. In the March 2024 issue of REStat by Tarek Ghani (@tghani), Joshua Blumenstock (@jblumenstock), Michael Callen (no twitter), Robert Gonzalez (@rmgonzalez046).

Mark your calendars! The 4th Annual SEEDS Conference (Southeast Exchange of Development Studies) will be held at Georgia Institute of Technology on April 25-26, 2024. Link, submission form 📄: https://t.co/13mZEoQ76s The deadline is March 1st, 2024

Delighted to announce 4th Annual SEEDS Conference @GeorgiaTech on April 25-26, 2024. Papers on all topics on #development studies are welcome. Submit an abstract by Friday, March 1, 2024 https://t.co/LtQ0UqSxvc #EconTwitter

.@SDSUCHEPS and @SdsuEcon welcome @danieldench1 @GATechEcon to present: “The Effects of the Dobbs Decision on Fertility” https://t.co/c1JBEz2ktd Join us on Thursday 02/08 at 3,30PM PT in AL 660 or via zoom ( https://t.co/Qau3OsX5rP)

Please join us for the second annual Development Economics in the South (DevSouth) workshop on April 19! Hosted by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Submit your paper by March 1st! We welcome submissions in all areas of development economics. https://t.co/dD5MeiCQMr

6/ No evidence of EVD spreading at a higher rate within cellphone-connected networks (via increased interpersonal interactions). We use more than 200 million anonymized call detail records to predict each village's network. See example for Ganta city below:

5/ We then use survey data @ElisaMaffioli collected shortly after the epidemic to explore mechanisms: We find that cellphone access facilitated treatment provision (e.g., getting ambulances on time). Weaker evidence on information or preventive care access.

4/🆔We then compare EVD outcomes for villages within a close margin (~9dBm) of the signal strength cutoff needed for communication #RDD. At this margin, only topography matters in whether you get coverage or not.

3/📊How do we determine cellphone access? We estimate a radio wave propagation model that predicts signal strength at each point on the ground taking into account tower location, topography, radio frequency, etc. It also gives these beautiful pictures: