Tanu Kumar
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housing, civic participation, bureaucratic accountability, governance, cities
Washington, DC
Joined July 2011
RT @Ideas4India: A new article by @shoumitro_c, @KalaMarathe, @KalyaniPadmaku2 & @Yingyan_Zhao8 finds that institutional exit barriers face….
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Despite an abundance of low-skilled labour, India never experienced the kind of take-off in labour-intensive manufacturing seen in other countries at similar income levels. This article argues that a...
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RT @jblumenstock: Want to use your data science skills for good? The government of Togo, with support from my team, is recruiting a top-tie….
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RT @opencontracting: Open now: the @WorldBank 2026 Government Analytics Fellowship empower public servants to design & implement data-drive….
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The Government Analytics Fellowship is a collaboration between the World Bank Development Economics Vice-Presidency (DEC) and the Governance Global Practice (GGP). 30 fellows will be selected to...
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RT @AletheiaDonald: The World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab is hiring an RA (or two) to support impact evaluations in Benin and the D….
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RT @restatjournal: Replacing distressed public housing with mixed-income housing raises local prices & improves local amenities. Just Accep….
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Abstract. Partly due to their negative effects on surrounding neighborhoods, some countries have been replacing distressed public housing developments with mixed-income housing. We study the impact...
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RT @LachlanMcNamee: Interested in doing a PhD on migration, identity & conflict? Monash University & IIT Bombay are offering a joint PhD o….
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effects in dev countries likely seen b/c of poverty traps, as cash pushes HHs past k* threshold needed to grow. Maybe threshold is higher here, or maybe such traps look different here. Also, what’s the tradeoff between investing in public goods and giving individuals cash?.
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RT @SSRN: #CallForPapers.World Bank Conference on Public Institutions for Development: Supporting Firms & Workers. We invite you to submit….
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RT @AEAjournals: Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation: Comment" by Brian Greaney. https://t.c….
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(Forthcoming Article) - Hsieh and Moretti (2019) find that relaxing land-use regulations in three productive US cities would increase GDP by 3.7%. In this comment, I revisit their findings. I first...
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really nice paper that breaks out of the 2D thinking dominating poli sci and econ research on bureaucrats. focuses on persuasion and collective action, not just monitoring and sanctions.
Do managerial bureaucrats impact the quality of service provision for difficult-to-monitor tasks?. In my JMP, I argue that they do but that the type of bureaucrats having an impact is not what gets most attention in the literature (and from politicians or the media). 🧵
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RT @tmasakicu: My Department is hiring a Senior Economist! Bring your analytical skills to work where they make a difference, turning insig….
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RT @RichardRossow: The @IFC_org looks at "Which Firms Create More and Better Jobs." A narrow group of businesses create 2/3 of new jobs.….
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RT @DaveEvansPhD: What are your favorite examples of quantile regression in impact evaluation papers?. (Self-promotion welcome but not requ….
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RT @CUP_PoliSci: ". shows how a different form of public policy-subsidized home ownership-can transform poor people's lives by bolstering….
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Post in Cambridge's 1584 blog.
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Making housing affordable is now a top priority for countries and subnational governments around the world.
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RT @arvindsubraman: Devesh Kapur & I are pleased that, after 4-5 years of researching & writing & decades of reflection, our @HarperCollins….
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RT @leqonomics: New Publication. 🏙️📈 Thrilled to share that our paper, “𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙏𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙐𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙮𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩?”, has been publishe….
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RT @mathur_vaishali: Dear friends, we need English to Hindi translators interested in fiction. Please spread the word. Thanks!! . #translat….
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RT @Afinetheorem: Forthcoming in QJE from my colleage @caroartc: effect of opioids on N. Am. politics hard to overstate. About 1/4 of all d….
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RT @JohnHolbein1: Look at the distribution of wealth among politicians around the world relative to the people they represent!. In some cou….
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