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Radhika Jain

@radhikajain.bsky.social
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Health/dev economist working on inequality, healthcare policy. Asst Prof @ UCL. Into dogs, secret lives of plants & animals, low budget travel.

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Julian Reif @julianreif.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
AJHE is now online! Our social media editor, Anna Chorniy, will be posting summaries of our accepted papers.
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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Academia -- where you can firmly be in your mid 40s and still be considered an emerging leader. I like feeling like there is always something to learn and a frontier to discover. I don't like having to wait just because of some "time" (indep of experience or achievement) .
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Rachel K @xrkulik.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I never have any proof that a student used an LLM and it generally doesn't feel worth it to pursue, but it's pretty soul crushing to be grading and giving feedback to papers that reads like chat gpt
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Radhika Jain @radhikajain.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Awesome thread
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Ashwin Varma @ashwinvarma97.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The whole debate about public / private is stupid. The post-1980 system of public / private partnership in the development of new drugs worked well. The right wants to destroy it because they hate public R&D, the left because they feel like the private sector does nothing. They're both wrong.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?
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Patrick K Mills @pkernaghan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
For everyone taking this way too seriously, the article/headline is an obvious gag It ain't exactly the onion but it's clearly tongue in cheek
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.
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SCORE | Center for Open Science
SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...
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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New in the American Economic Review: migration doesn't hollow out the home economy — it builds it up. More than 75% of the long-run income gains from migration are domestic. The home economy itself grows. Here's what we found: 🧵
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 29/03/2026
Did a series of videos with Markus Brunnermeier on Claude Code (more to come) Video 1: Getting Started with CC open.substack.com/pub/paulgp/p...
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Getting Started with Claude Code: A Researcher’s Setup Guide
Video 1 in a series on Claude Code
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
No Kings protests in Barrow, Alaska- the most northerly town in the USA. #nokings
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 20/03/2026
There’s an office in London that contains something critical to the security of the global internet — a bunch of swinging pendulums. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/ins...
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Inside the London office where swinging pendulums keep cyber threats at bay
There's an office in London that contains something critical to the security of the global internet — a bunch of swinging pendulums.
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 19/03/2026
New post: "The Butlerian Jihad Was Never About the Machines" paulgp.com/2026/03/19/t... or paulgp.substack.com/p/the-butler...
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The Butlerian Jihad Was Never About the Machines
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J-PAL @j-pal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
How can social protection programs combat poverty and protect people from shocks? The Handbook of Social Protection, edited by Rema Hanna & Ben Olken, tackles this question. From cash transfers to insurance, it examines the evidence behind real-world programs: bit.ly/4uuTiVi
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The Handbook of Social Protection
Over the past several decades, social protection programs that provide financial assistance to the poor and insure against shocks for the vulnerable have bec...
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J-PAL @j-pal.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
AI is everywhere. But how can we know whether it's changing people's lives for the better? We’re hiring an AI Policy Lead to help evaluate and scale promising AI applications for social good. 📍 Cambridge, MA Learn more and please share: bit.ly/4rM1Ogw
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AI Policy Lead - J-PAL Global | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Remarkable amount of content in this short message ☘️
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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So weird: there's more than one scammy memorial site inviting donations or tree-planting in my dad's memory. We are not asking for that, but if people feel moved, donations in lieu of flowers to www.aclu-mn.org, www.aclu.org, or www.eff.org Econ folks, can you help get the word out?
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Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011 was awarded jointly to Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims "for their empirical research on cause and effect in th...
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Michael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🚨Replication alert🚨 I'm pleased to announce that my replication of Moretti (2021) is now accepted as a comment at AER. I find ten issues in the paper. My comment focuses on two major problems; in the appendix, I document eight (relatively) minor problems. 1/
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Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 18/02/2026
Team "Elsevier Highlights Subversion" strikes again! Best one yet! @deankarlan.bsky.social, Monica Lambon-Quayefio, Utsav Manjeer, @christopher-udry.bsky.social
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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
As a PhD student, I was told that "seniors" are always really busy, though I speculated, I really wasn't sure how this materialized. I'm not yet SSJ3 Senior, just like baby-senior, but one way it materializes is "Death by 1000 cuts" ⬇️
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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Nazis stopped Jewish doctors from practising, so thousands of them left the country (my great grandfather was one of them). So many left that this was a good natural experiment for estimating the causal effect of losing doctors on infant mortality (& thousands died)
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Radhika Jain @radhikajain.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
~75K violent, ~16K nonviolent deaths Oct23-Jan25. "The combined evidence suggests that, as of Jan 5, 2025, 3–4% of the population of the Gaza Strip had been killed violently and there have been a substantial number of nonviolent deaths caused indirectly by the conflict."
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 11/02/2026
In case folks are looking for a convenient way to containerize their claude code instances, here's a way to use Docker on your mac machine to isolate YOLO-ing claude instances. github.com/paulgp/claud...
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GitHub - paulgp/claude-container
Contribute to paulgp/claude-container development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
unbelievably good from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com @sarahoconnorft.ft.com on the intensification of (knowledge) work under AI www.ft.com/content/9c6a... It reminds me a bit of when the Internet arrived, that sense of a cornucopia of content, an infinite bookstore, a neverending toread list. 1/
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Is AI making work more intense?
Using agents appears to increase the number of hours worked and the exhausting nature of tasks
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Manpreet Singh @manpreet1.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
open.substack.com/pub/rottenan... this by @economeager.bsky.social is an astonishing essay. With some excellent, loving, put downs about both the British and Americans.
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You Love America
A covenant with death, and an agreement with hell; Yale, Du Bois, Bagehot, Pynchon, Fitzgerald
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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🆕 Do disaster-relief cash transfers trap people in risky areas, or help them adapt? Today on VoxDev, Muhammad Bin Khalid (Harvard) & Martin Mattsson (NUS) discuss how disaster relief enabled climate adaptation in Pakistan: ow.ly/XAgU50YiFE7
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Do disaster-relief cash transfers trap people in risky areas, or help them adapt?
Disaster relief can discourage people from adapting to future disasters – for example, by reducing incentives to relocate. But in low-income settings, cash relief can also ease liquidity constraints and enable adaptation. Evidence from Pakistan’s 2010 floods shows that both of these forces exist but that they offset each other, so that cash relief does not cause more people to stay in disaster-prone areas.
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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 26/01/2026
#CallforPapers — 4th Conference in Health Economics joint with @tse-fr.eu The organisers welcome submissions on healthcare and pharmaceutical regulation, innovation financing, digital health, R&D, and related topics. 🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2026 cepr.org/events/4th-c... #EconSky #EconConf
#CallforPapers — 4th Conference in Health Economics joint with @tse-fr.eu

We welcome submissions on healthcare and pharmaceutical regulation, innovation financing, digital health, R&D, and related topics.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2026

https://cepr.org/events/4th-conference-health-economics
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Minneapolis says no to ICE.
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Vatsal Khandelwal @vatsalecon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
📢 Call for Papers 4th Diversity and Human Capital Workshop, June 9–10, 2026 @exeter.ac.uk @uofebusiness.bsky.social We welcome papers in applied microeconomics, including health, labour, education, development, and public economics. Submit your paper by 16 March: bit.ly/3YRaYMa
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
if i could make you read ONE (1) single post to improve your understanding of the challenges of social science in general it would be this one from @markfabian.bsky.social about wellbeing science specifically profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/airing-my-...
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Airing my grievances with wellbeing science
We have a streetlight problem
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
My last two shots before my world went dark.
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition

The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away

What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse

The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable
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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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Matt Motta @mattmotta.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The Boston Globe Test: This satirical front page imagined a Trump presidency in 2016. Critics (including Trump himself) dismissed it as "alarmist" and "propaganda" at the time. Do these headlines feel normal today? Even...quaint? If so: we have grown more accepting of what was once unthinkable.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 13/01/2026
Global deaths from cancer have increased, but the world has made progress against it—
Global cancer deaths have increased, but age-adjusted rates have fallen. Line chart from 1980 to 2021 showing three series: estimated number of cancer deaths, crude cancer death rate, and age-standardized cancer death rate. Key findings annotated on the chart: the total number of cancer deaths has roughly doubled since 1980; crude cancer death rates have increased by just under 20 percent; age-adjusted cancer death rates have fallen by more than 20 percent. Data source: IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2024).
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!
Animal Consciousness (first paragraph of the article).
First published Sat Dec 23, 1995; substantive revision Tue Jan 13, 2026.

Is there something it’s like to be an octopus, a bee, a snail? For much of the twentieth century, research into animal cognition tended to avoid questions of consciousness, following the lead of human neuroscience, where such questions were also marginalized (see the entries on animal cognition, methods in comparative cognition). However, the growing profile of consciousness science since 2000 has brought the topic of consciousness back into the scientific mainstream (see the entry on the neuroscience of consciousness), and this has led to resurgent interest in studying conscious experience in other animals.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I see this take around from time to time and totally disagree. ICE just murdered a woman standing up to them. No Kings is among the largest protests in history. The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership
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I'm struck by the contrast between the passion for democracy shown by Iranians willing to die for it and the complacency with which many Americans have accepted an authoritarian slide.
Americans should cheer for Iran's democrats--and also learn from their determination.
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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Grumpy opinion: Too many young development economists are working on behavioral econ questions that are unimportant for development. The topics are amenable to small experiments that can nail mechanisms and demonstrate smarts via a clever design. The profession over-rewards those attributes.
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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Call for papers for a World Bank Economic Review special issue on migration and development: we are doing a special issue that builds on a recent conference, but with submissions open also for non-conference papers. Short papers in the AER insights type format also welcome. Deadline November 30.
Details of WBER call for papers, including URL and submission deadline of November 30.
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Marcos Vera-Hernandez @papiteide.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Do you have a paper on the economics of health in lower-and-middle income countries? Submit it to the 2nd Workshop of the Global Health Economics WG in Rotterdam 4-5 June 2026. Submit at tinyurl.com/ywcwz7ba by 1 Dec. Special treat: keynote by @martinabjorkman.bsky.social
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ESE-RGHI-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMICs 2026
The workshop will foster in-depth discussions, bringing together development economists and health researchers from across the globe.
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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
And obviously, the NHS. Yes, it is overstretched and suffering from neglect, but bring a parent in for a day procedure and witness the depth of compassion in that organisation. If nothing else does, that should restore hope.
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Last week, @rhodesben.bsky.social and I did a Munk Debates against Kevin Roberts and Kellyanne Conway on whether Trump is leading America into a new golden age. We won. This is from my closing statement. There’s nothing golden about a movement that bathes in gratuitous cruelty.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"For 142 years, the merit-based civil service survived because both parties recognized that functional government requires professional expertise. That consensus is dead. We're watching the transformation of public servants into party servants, of a government of laws into a government of loyalty."
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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
indefensible
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Radhika Jain @radhikajain.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Our 2-part series on urban LMIC primary care is out. These are thick markets w many providers but variable quality. Rural frameworks focused on inadequate access don't apply. Instead, leverage competition, choice to shape mkts, reward high/push out low quality.
Abstract: Most people in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) now live in cities, as opposed to rural areas where
access to care and provider choice is limited. Urban health-care provision is organised on very different patterns to
those of rural care. We synthesise global evidence to show that health-care clinics are plentiful and easily accessible in
LMIC cities and that they are seldom overcrowded. The costs that patients incur when they seek care are highly
variable and driven mostly by drugs and diagnostics. We show that citizens have agency, often bypassing
cheaper facilities to access preferred providers. Primary care service delivery in cities is thus best characterised as a
market with a diverse range of private and public providers, where patients make active choices based on price,
quality, and access. However, this market does not deliver high-quality consultations on average and does not provide
continuity or integration of services for preventive care or long-term conditions. Since prices play a key role in
accessing care, the most vulnerable groups of the urban population often remain unprotected.
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Radhika Jain @radhikajain.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Finally got around to reading it. What an awesome paper (and example of how careful descriptive stats can be enlightening)!
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
People with Yale connections, please check out and consider signing onto this letter asking Yale leaders to join others — notably including Yale's own faculty — in taking a stand. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Letter from Yale alums
UPDATE TO SIGNERS: bookmark this page as your location for updates, and feel free to share widely with other alums. Current intent is to freeze the signature list Sunday 4-20 at 8pm, and deliver the s...
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jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
How many more headlines like this do we have to see? The Israeli military's repeated strikes on areas where Gaza's most vulnerable seek refuge are neither legal nor strategic. It must stop, and an immediate independent investigation into this tragedy is necessary.
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