Reposted by Tanu KumarCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 09/09/2026Building Social Mobility by Tanu Kumar wins the APSA Francine Frankel Best Book Award. Congratulations! cup.org/3UGgx19 #APSA2026 #SouthAsianPolitics #PolSky 142
Reposted by Tanu KumarCenter for Effective Global Action @cega-uc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025How can housing subsidies change the trajectory of beneficiaries’ lives? CEGA faculty affiliate @tanukumar.com’s new book explores how subsidized home ownership in India shapes beneficiaries’ economic, social, and political behavior. Learn more: go.cega.org/buildingsocialmobilitygo.cega.orgBuilding Social MobilityCambridge Core - South Asian Government, Politics and Policy - Building Social Mobility 011
Reposted by Tanu KumarCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 14/08/2025"... shows how a different form of public policy-subsidized home ownership-can transform poor people's lives by bolstering not just wealth but also agency and civic participation." 'Building Social Mobility' by @tanukumar.com. Coming Soon - 📚 cup.org/3Hu4o9k 📚 053
Reposted by Tanu KumarDeshdeep Dhankhar @deshdeep.bsky.social · 02/07/2025The new paper from Adam Auerbach & @tanukumar.com, challenges the conventional understanding of urban peripheries as neglected zones & demonstrates them as crucial sites of negotiation, innovation & contestation. Indeed, future of urban India can't be shaped just in city centres but at their edges.doi.orgPolitics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India’s CitiesABSTRACT Some privately developed neighborhoods on the outskirts of India’s cities are formalized by urban authorities while others are not. What explains this uneven formalization and what are its... 172
Reposted by Tanu KumarBhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Really grateful to be receiving McCourt's Tech & Public Policy grant---with @tanukumar.com and @gabikw.bsky.social---to study how citizen-generated information influences civic action for governance in India! Other fantastic projects funded here: mccourt.georgetown.edu/news/tech-pu...mccourt.georgetown.eduTech & Public Policy program awards $1.5M in grants to 24 Georgetown researchers - McCourt School of Public PolicyTech & Public Policy program awards $1.5M in grants to support research in AI, digital governance and ethics of emerging technologies. 062
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 07/03/2025I'll be starting at the World Bank as a Governance Specialist in the Public Institutions and Data Analytics Unit in May. Excited to work with a great team on important work, and to be back in my hometown is a dream. Thanks to everyone at CGU for all you've taught me. 2160
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 31/01/2025My book, Building Social Mobility is available for preorder! shorturl.at/jlgQv 170
Reposted by Tanu Kumar👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 31/12/2024In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change 611740509
Reposted by Tanu KumarSansa Sandisk @cheatlines.co · 14/07/2024"We are attempting to survive our time, so we may live into yours." 121292415
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 19/12/2024ICYMI Ryan Atwood from the OC wrote a bestselling book on crypto www.amazon.com/Easy-Money-C...amazon.comEasy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of FraudAmazon.com: Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud: 9781419766398: McKenzie, Ben, Silverman, Jacob: Books 020
Reposted by Tanu KumarAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/12/2024You know it’s bad when even Trump is pity posting through it 💀 1854379092125
Reposted by Tanu KumarGovernance and Local Development Institute @gldinstitute.bsky.social · 09/12/2024How can citizens drive accountability in resource-strained bureaucracies? 🌍 GLD Policy Brief No.26 explores how community efforts, empathy, and mobilization improve service delivery in rural India. Read the brief to learn more! bit.ly/4feVFm1 By Gabi Kruks-Wisner, @tanukumar.com, Jessica Mayberry. 031
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 05/12/2024Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets. Interstellar Michael Kaine 010
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 02/12/2024Policy brief on my work with Gabi Kruks-Wisner and Video Volunteers on how citizens can demand responsiveness from bureaucrats who are overburdened and not formally accountable to them: gld.gu.se/en/publicati...gld.gu.seGLDWhy are some communities able to provide secure environments, good education, adequate healthcare, and other factors that promote human development, while others fail to do so? 000
Reposted by Tanu KumarMathias Poertner @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social · 29/11/2024🎉 Thrilled that my new book, *Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America*, is finally out! 🎉 @cambridgeup.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/us/universit... A brief summary: 1/n 1115542
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 26/11/2024theprint.in/ground-repor...theprint.inYoung Bihari women are India’s brave new coders. Bengaluru is their dreamAs the women work on their coding tasks at the residential school, the trainer plays music from her phone to keep the atmosphere lively. Only English pop—to help them learn the language. 032
Reposted by Tanu KumarChristopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 14/11/2024You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇. t.co/aJ0SOwyCge 02830
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 13/11/2024Love how in lotr people are like “be back with the other fighters in two days” and correctly estimate so people are always in time for the war 010
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 12/11/2024can someone explain to me how relying on starter packs to discover people to follow is different from pre-twitter forms of information dissemination where it was hard for people not central in networks to be seen? 283
Reposted by Tanu KumarJohannes Boehm @johannesmboehm.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Great paper showing how flood risk information affects housing choices. Connects well with our finding (w/ Balboni, Waseem: jmboehm.github.io/Pakistan_Flo...) that agents are imperfectly informed about flood risks. Clear evidence that better information can help adaptation to climate risks.jmboehm.github.io 062
Reposted by Tanu KumarDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Seems important: a policy to remove undocumented migrants reduced not just their employment, but also those of citizens. 513050
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 10/11/2024Some casual shocking stats on wealth inequality in the US. Today, bottom 50% holds 2.5 percent of wealth compared to top .1% holding 13.5, top 1% holding almost 30%. www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...federalreserve.govThe Fed - Table: Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989 The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC. 131
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 08/11/2024which policies build enduring social mobility? My take: those that 1) give beneficiaries a sense of agency and control and 2) not only improve econ. outcomes, but social status as well. Most welfare policies do not do 1, and virtually none do 2. Exception: housing (1/2) 121
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 11/10/2024perennial plea to APSA/MPSA/SPSA to consider adding someone with expertise outside the US and Europe to the editorial boards of the APSR/AJPS/JOP, our discipline's top general interest journals. 021
Reposted by Tanu KumarMelissa Rogers @melissazrogers.bsky.social · 21/03/2024Excited to host the Southern California Political Institutions and Political Economy Conference at @CGUnews tomorrow, March 22! If you are in the area, feel free to drop by! 021
Reposted by Tanu KumarAlexander Lee @alexandermlee.bsky.social · 03/01/2024Reupping a post that got lost in the holidays: The South Asian politics section of APSA now has prizes for best book and best article on South Asia. Please nominate work you admire (even your own).apsanet.org South Asian Politics (Section 55) American Political Science Association 012
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 14/12/2023did you know: you can search for "thank my driver" on amazon and they'll give a $5 tip at no cost to you! 010
Reposted by Tanu KumarDaniel Tavana @danieltavana.bsky.social · 07/12/2023The Midwest Workshop in Empirical Political Science (MWEPS) is now accepting applications for its Spring 2024 meeting! The 11th meeting of MWEPS will be held in-person at the Department of Political Science at Penn State on Friday, March 29, 2024. Link: t.co/wUT0IFuw6h 283
Reposted by Tanu Kumarapoorva lal @apoorvalal.com · 07/12/2023My team is hiring interns! Applications welcome from PhD students with expertise in causal inference and experimentation and an interest in developing and/or applying methods to industrial applications. jobs.netflix.com/jobs/306716846jobs.netflix.comExperimentation & Causal Inference Intern, Data Science & Engineering (Summer 2024)Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with 240+ million paid memberships in over 1... 32114
Reposted by Tanu KumarGilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 04/12/2023My take on the elections results in India. Competitive welfarism leaves parties undifferentiated. Elections are fought on a larger range of issues, which explains why popular CMs can in fact lose. economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-c...economictimes.indiatimes.comLessons for Congress from Hindi heartland lossesUnless Congress does something dramatic within the next few months to change that situation, it is difficult to see BJP not maintaining its dominance in the region. Since 2014, BJP has won 90% of the ... 121
Reposted by Tanu KumarClaire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 30/11/2023Looking for anyone willing to share code for conjoint programming in surveyCTO. Thanks! Polisky Econsky 323
Reposted by Tanu KumarAlex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 29/11/2023Just read @dmasterson.bsky.social's latest in the APSR. Wow! It's the rare instance of an RCT that assigns *network structure* then observes problem-solving behavior. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... We learn network density has upsides (⬆️ engagement) and downsides (⬇️ unique resources). 0319
Reposted by Tanu KumarChristoph Niemann @christophniemann.bsky.social · 13/11/2023My cover for today's A.I. issue of The New Yorker more: www.christophniemann.com/detail/nyerc... 6859111788
Reposted by Tanu KumarCaroline Krafft @ckrafftc.bsky.social · 31/10/2023Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev) Saturday, March 9, 2024 Stanford King Center on Global Development Submit Your Paper Paper submissions are due by 11:59 PM PST on Sunday, December 10, 2023 #Econsky cega.submittable.com/submit/27734...cega.submittable.comCenter for Effective Global Action - Pacific Conference For Development Economics (PacDev) 2024 - St... 02215
Reposted by Tanu KumarGuy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2023We are still searching for a program manger here at PDRI-DevLab, who would manage a portfolio of studies around migration, displacement and human trafficking. Come work with Erik Wibbels, and I and our great, fun, and collegial team. Please consider applying (or nudging others to apply). 0314
Reposted by Tanu KumarPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 28/09/2023What is the most interesting question in your subfield that PhD candidates could consider pursuing? I’ll start: 145727
Tanu Kumar @tanukumar.com · 05/09/2023Some of my thoughts on citizen behavior, bureaucrats, and outer space. Thanks for the opportunity to do this interview, GLD Gothenburg! gld.gu.se/media/3049/t... 020
