Teju Velayudhan
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AP Economics at @UCIrvine. Postdoc at @OhioState 2019-2020. @umichECON PhD working on public finance in developing countries. Former @CGDev RA.
Irvine, CA
Joined February 2010
📢 The new @vox_dev lit review on taxation & development is out! Lots of insights from recent research + outline of open questions for future research & policy experimentation. For recap of key takeaways, tune in for Anders Jensen's presentation this afternoon at 2pm UK time 📅
🆕 Our #VoxDevLit on Taxation is out now! Senior Editor Anders Jensen (@Kennedy_School @The_IGC) summarises findings from research on taxation & development + identifies some feasible policy levers that can help strengthen tax processes. Download here: https://t.co/xfjzs1VyWS
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#1 of 2 Embarrassed by your vaccine privilege ? ( https://t.co/1He2giXRyV) Then check out Go Give One (easy to find) and donate. Tell your friends and family: $5 per dose! Enough donors could matter as a message to rich country govts. h/t @louis boorstin @glassmanamanda
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Obviously, an ethical vaccine distribution would start with a far more equitable sharing of vaccines between rich and less-rich nations. More pragmatically, the current huge imbalance in the global...
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Earlier this year I wrote about visa applications getting rejected for having inapplicable blanks on them. Thanks to a newly resolved FOIA suit, we now have a better sense of the scale of this policy and its consequences. They're enormous. (thread)
“Middlename” field left blank because you don't have a middlename? No address for your dad b/c he's dead? No siblings listed because you’re an only child? Sorry, your immigration applications have all been rejected USCIS's Kafkaesque "no blanks" policy
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The voters have spoken, and they have chosen @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris to be our next president and vice president. It's a history-making ticket, a repudiation of Trump, and a new page for America. Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen. Onward, together.
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👋! Latina reporter here. I have a thread about how we gave our readers a more nuanced understanding of the vote in Florida. For inquiring minds. 1/x
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Interesting evidence that taxation --> accountability and political participation.
@jesselyoder examines the role that property ownership plays in motivating participation in local politics. #polisciresearch #APSR
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💡 Looking for PhD candidates & young scholars w/ ideas to promote private sector dev in low-income countries! We are organizing a @PEDL_CEPR workshop to match high-/low-income country scholars + develop ideas together. Pls share and reach out with q’s! https://t.co/42467Qdqct
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To strengthen the links between young scholars in lower- and higher-income countries working in this rapidly growing field of research, the PEDL programme is organising a virtual matchmaking and
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This story is so shocking and yet unsurprising.
What happens when the World Bank assigns a Cameroonian macroeconomist to cover an Eastern European country? Sometimes, the country would rather cut off relations with the Bank. Yikes. https://t.co/SSpyTMMy9Q by @CelestinMonga
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Join this amazing team @CGDev! Interested in emerging markets, financial inclusion and macro-finance? 🚨 🚨 Apply here 🚨 🚨 #EconTwitter @econ_ra
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Useful compilation of various immigration policy changes in the US post COVID.
We @immcouncil wrote a special report on every major policy change that's happened since the pandemic began, and we'll update it ASAP with this new decision on student visas. Our report reveals extensive changes across the entire immigration system. https://t.co/JyDa22xg3e
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The Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, a conservative-allied group headed by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, took Covid-19 small business relief funds from the federal government, according to data.
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Piling on the uncertainty...
Second, this is almost certainly going to be challenged in court. I can't give anyone specific legal advice on their cases (especially because I am not an expert on student visas), but I wouldn't encourage anyone to book a flight "home" this exact moment. Lawsuits are inevitable.
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Great new paper showing that consumption taxes may not be as regressive as we think, even on an annual income basis.
Consumption taxes are redistributive in developing countries, lowering inequality by as much as income taxes, driven primarily by differences in informal consumption along the income distribution, from Bachas, Gadenne, and Jensen https://t.co/X9kyPUwmhF
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This brings back painful memories of times when I have been the "token" woman.
New (awesome) working paper! "Strength in Numbers: A Field Experiment in Gender, Influence, and Group Dynamics" by @ProfKarpo, @jrpjrpjrp, & @OlgaStoddard. https://t.co/V9KzAR0Flh
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TARC Online Mini-Workshop on: COVID-19 and Developing Countries We invite submissions of research related to this broad topic. Empirical, theoretical, experimental contributions related to tax and tax administration policy challenges welcome. Call for papers below:
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Kerala, India, is implementing “test, trace, isolate, support,” and it is paying off so far. They are working hard to keep case numbers low. What can we learn from them? A short thread. 1/5
Kerala (population 35 million) was the first state in India to get COVID. Today for the 2nd day in a row they have ZERO new cases! https://t.co/8etUBaxUiP
@nramind @nambath @ramyakannan How did they do it? 1/
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The online public finance seminar series is starting on May 7th at 11am EST on Zoom! We will meet every Thursday at 11am EST for as long as there is demand. Submit your paper, register for a talk and sign up for the mailing list on our website:
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OPFS was weekly, virtual workshop featuring research in public finance. Papers are both invited and solicited with a call for papers. The first workshop took place on Zoom on Thursday, May 7th, 2020...
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#EconTwitter We are excited to bring you Seminar in Applied Microeconomics - Virtual Assembly and Discussion. SAMVAAD is an online platform for scholars in India to present their research. Sign up today! https://t.co/TXjHfFP8Ll Details: https://t.co/NOZSz2bhTK cc @sabya_economist
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Seminar in Applied Microeconomics - Virtual Assembly and Discussion (SAMVAAD) is a platform for faculty and researchers in India to present their work and get feedback from the applied micro commun...
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How many firms become unprofitable due to COVID19/coronavirus shock? What share of the wage bill might be slashed? Pierre Bachas and I discuss how to use tax admin data to simulate scenarios:
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This blog discusses how policy makers can use firm-level administrative tax records to simulate the effects of the COVID-19 shock. Our analysis relies on a few simple assumptions about the shock...
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