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Karthik Tadepalli

@karthiktadepalli.bsky.social

econ phd @ Berkeley, contractor @ GiveWell. market access rules everything around me. former homes: Philadelphia, Bangalore.

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Karthik Tadepalli @karthiktadepalli.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Next on the chopping block: climate-GDP regressions.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 11/12/2024

Upgraded version

Wojak standing in a corner of a party thinking "They don't know what death rates mean", while other people are dancing. The other people are saying "Why are you always talking about mortality statistics?" and "I don't think about death that much"

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Karthik Tadepalli @karthiktadepalli.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is my Roman empire

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Karthik Tadepalli @karthiktadepalli.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Most of us couldn't DREAM of being this vindicated

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Karthik Tadepalli @karthiktadepalli.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

There's a deep point here that I had never thought about. Technological change fosters interdependence because it allows the production process to be split into more parts, and thus more countries.

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Karthik Tadepalli @karthiktadepalli.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Sunset photos are pointless, I keep telling myself as I take more

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Karthik Tadepalli @karthiktadepalli.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Every PhD student has to develop a taste in research; research they would like to do, as something separate from "good research" overall. In that spirit, here are the econ job market papers from this year that I would be happy to have written: 🧵

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 13/11/2024

I often say there's lots of low-hanging fruit where research could answer important qs with well-designed studies, but they don't happen bc of poor incentives, neglected areas, etc. @ruben.the100.ci suggested writing a thread of 'studies I would fund in a heartbeat'. So here is an ongoing thread.

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Karthik Tadepalli @karthiktadepalli.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Me to ChatGPT: "fill in the blank in a funny way: 'oh, you're a development economist? ____'" ChatGPT: "oh, you're a development economist? So do you, like, go around telling countries 'have you tried turning it off and on again?'"

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Karthik Tadepalli @karthiktadepalli.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

On the other site I have carved a niche of posting academic macro-dev stuff; here I plan to be much more freeform/"after dark". Serious people beware :)

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