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Wilson King

@wilsonmking.bsky.social
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PhD Student at Berkeley ARE • Former J-PAL/LSE • Development Economics, Global Health, Science of Science, et al • 🏃‍♂️🚵🗺🌈

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Wilson King @wilsonmking.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Lots more in the paper! Please do take a look 🙂 🧵: 5/5 www.nber.org/papers/w34769
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Why Does Height Pay? Evidence from the Kenya Life Panel Survey
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Wilson King @wilsonmking.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
What about measurement error? KLPS has been following the same cohort since the late 1990s, and adult heights were collected twice — 10 years apart! These measures are strongly correlated, but OLS may still be biased IV yields point estimates as much as 86% (!) higher 🧵: 4/5
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Wilson King @wilsonmking.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
What about other factors? We find some evidence that physical strength matters, but little role for occupational sorting Conditional on other controls, taller people appear no more likely to work in higher paid sectors 🧵: 3/5
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Wilson King @wilsonmking.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
As in Case and Paxson's seminal paper, cognition matters a lot. But how it's measured is important for capturing its role KLPS respondents completed 27 modules of cognitive questions Including only a Raven's score would have understated the role of cognition by ~1/2 🧵: 2/5
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Wilson King @wilsonmking.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
New Working Paper! 🚨 Taller people earn more, especially in low & middle-income countries @tedmiguel.bsky.social, Michael Walker, & I study why — using rich longitudinal microdata on 4,000+ Kenyan adults 🧵: 1/5
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Rachel Bonnifield @rachelbonnifield.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Exactly this. Reviewing foreign aid for consistency w/admin policy goals is reasonable. Many programs can absorb a 90 day pause w/o catastrophic impact. But a real stop work on bi-partisan malaria & HIV programs--delivering lifesaving medicines & bednets--quite literally means people will die.
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NBER @nber.org · 05/01/2025
Studying the problem of estimating the average causal effect of treating every member of a population, as opposed to none, using an experiment that treats only some, from Stefan Faridani and Paul Niehaus www.nber.org/papers/w33319
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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus. As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees. 1/
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Justin Sandefur @justsand.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
New @cgdev.org policy paper: *MALARIA VACCINES* are a huge scientific breakthrough. But the world is dragging its feet on rolling them out. We examine why, and how to go faster. 🧵
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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Today's #econjmp is by Steven Brownstone (UCSD). He does a village level RCT in Telangana, India, introducing drum seeders to rice farmers. He shows mechanization by some farmers then lowers the wages others have to pay, & how this depends on women's job options blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
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When is agricultural mechanization most effective for development? Guest post by Steven Brownstone
When is agricultural mechanization most effective for development? Guest post by Steven Brownstone
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