Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025At least Pakistani humor and meme game is unbeatable in these otherwise concerning times. 010
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025www.dawn.com/news/1908705...dawn.comChenab parched after India reduces flows manifoldPakistan’s waters being used to fill up three Indian reservoirs with total capacity of 1.2MAF; official says sudden discharge may create ‘flood-like’ situation. 000
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025It appears the gods of MWIEDC have decided Pittsburgh is not midwest. How else can I explain getting rejected twice in two years :( 010
Reposted by Yasir KhanBeth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding. Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26) (Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.) 931649743
Reposted by Yasir KhanJorge Pérez Pérez @jorpppp.bsky.social · 24/01/2025🚨New dataset alert 🚨 In collaboration with a stellar team at Banxico, Harvard, the World Bank, and ITAM, we built a dataset of demographics and labor market variables at the local-labor-market level for Mexico! Download here: www.banxico.org.mx/DataSetsWeb/... #EconSky #Mexico 48127
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024One of pashto music's most under rated songs. Fay khan was way ahead of his time for a music genre still stuck in the past. He came up with such melodies right when WoT was heating up and artists in Peshawar were getting killed daily. Wonder where he is now www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRic...youtube.comGHALCHAKY STERGY - FAY KHAN فې خانYouTube video by FAY KHAN 000
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Nearly 3 decades after his death, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan continues to be the undisputed king images.dawn.com/news/1193061...images.dawn.comThe Guardian ranks Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s Chain of Light as top album of 2024Grammy-winning artist Arooj Aftab's Night Reign was ranked sixth. 000
Reposted by Yasir KhanNoam Angrist @noamangrist.bsky.social · 09/12/2024📣 Our paper "How to improve education outcomes most efficiently" was recently published in the Journal of Development Economics! Co-authored w/ @daveevansphd.bsky.social Filmer Glennerster Sabarwal Rogers. Rewarding to see this work inform research & policy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 23511
Reposted by Yasir KhanAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2024People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change 456371977639
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Yes all internationals irrespective of their position might be at risk. Usually internationals on any type of visa (F, J, H) face similar risks and are governed by similar laws, so any resource you put together will be helpful broadly. Thank you for doing this. 010
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024May I add that it is not just students, though they are more vulnerable, but faculty on visas of different types who are also at risk. Please share resources with Chloe if you know of any. #EconSky 122
Reposted by Yasir KhanChloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Soon I'll be sharing resources on how we can support our international students in higher education going forward. If you have suggestions of things to make sure we include in the resource list please comment, DM or email me! And please uplift this request. #EconSky #AcademicSky 13321
Reposted by Yasir KhanSeema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Question about std errors: In an RCT, treated people are randomly assigned to "pods" and interact (e.g., treatment = WhatsApp group membership). The norm (e.g. Cai-Szeidl) is to cluster on indiv for control group + on pod for treatment group. Why is clustering needed if any ICC is due to treatment? 139515
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Do folks, who have reviewed economics grant proposals, have anything to add? #EconSky 📈📉 042
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024My fantastic student, Priyoma Mustafi, is on the market. You should hire her because she 1- has a very interesting #JMP combining experimental, gender, and development topics 2- is super productive. Already has two R&Rs in top journals 3- is a great colleague sites.google.com/view/priyoma... 051
Reposted by Yasir KhanJeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Consider the simplest DiD setup with panel data. T = 2, controls X(i) don't change over time. D(i) is the "ever treated" indicator, f2(t) the second period time dummy. W(i,t) the time-varying treatment W(i,t) = D(i)*f2(t). The X(i) appear flexibly to allow selection and heterogeneous trends. 48612
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Starter packs are the new pompous Linkedin posts :) 📈📉 #econsky 010
Reposted by Yasir KhanAllison Shertzer @econhist-allday.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Fascinating jmp from Morgan Foy at UC Berkeley. "Union members appear negatively selected by teacher value added." Decertifying teachers unions improves student educational outcomes. morganfoy.github.io Adviser is @guoxu.bsky.social 34114
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024I am not American so I wonder why did I spend last few days explaining a lot M*sk propaganda posts to my Pakistani friends who were inclined to believe him. Such a thankless immigrant life :) 030
Reposted by Yasir KhanJaishri Srinivasan @jaishrijuice.bsky.social · 08/11/2024For me: Paper 1 written and sent for review. 9 months later, still no word. Paper 2 (review paper) written and sent for review. Reviewers rejected because they didn't like the way it was organized and I have to rewrite. Paper 3 written and sent for review....reject and reanalyze. Man, I'm done! 111
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 08/11/2024At my school: Unit A: You need unit B approval before WE approve that u can APPLY for a grant. Unit B: Fill export control from Unit C bcoz this is an international project to *check notes* work on mental health Unit C: Your laptop will go with you? (I haven't even applied for the grant yet) 210
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 07/11/2024media.tenor.coma man in a black uniform says so say we all in front of flagsALT: a man in a black uniform says so say we all in front of flags 000
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 07/11/2024I am low key disappointed that this quote tweet(?) got only one like. If you haven't, please go ahead and watch the remade Battle Star Galactica (and apologies in advance for the last season). #syfi #AI 240
Reposted by Yasir KhanRanil Dissanayake @scepticalranil.bsky.social · 18/10/2024And the links are up! This week, on the econ Nobel, neglected agriculture, cooling as a development intervention and much more! #EconSky www.cgdev.org/blog/economi...cgdev.orgEconomics & Marginalia: October 18, 2024Today’s links come to you from a heaving, overcrowded train carriage, perched in a corner with my laptop precarious, my charger looped around my waist and various annoyed-looking fellow-commuters near... 062
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 19/10/2024This is vintage @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social thread of old twitter days. It provides a succinct overview of the role "institutions" played (or did not play) in pre- AJR development economics. As an admirer of AR's work, I find this contextualization of AJR very useful. 020
Reposted by Yasir KhanPrinceton Research Program in Development Economics @princetondevo.bsky.social · 03/10/2024*HIRING* Come work with RPDE! The development econ group at Princeton is hiring 2 postdocs for 2025-26 to spend the year with us before starting their regular academic positions. Details here: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... @seema.bsky.socialaeaweb.orgAmerican Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025 033
Reposted by Yasir KhanCSWEP @aeacswep.bsky.social · 03/10/2024DCSWEP and SGE are co-sponsoring virtual mentoring event - Jobs for Economists: Beyond Academia, targeted toward graduate students interested in pursuing non-academic careers in the field of economics. Oct 14 @ Noon EDT. To register, us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @aeacswep.bsky.socialus02web.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Jobs for Economists: Beyond Academia. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Jobs for Economists: Beyond Academia. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. 046
Reposted by Yasir KhanCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 25/09/2024Ann Arbor is widely considered one of those liberal bubbles, like Cambridge or Berkeley. I sincerely hope the residents there, students included, are raising hell over this. 46418
Reposted by Yasir KhanLaura K Gee @laurakgee.bsky.social · 24/09/2024CALL FOR PAPERS: the Early-Career Behavioral Econ Conf is awesome. I had so much fun when I went in the past. Nice small group who give great feedback Deadline Dec 15 sites.google.com/site/ecbecon... 📉📈#econsky 074
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 24/09/2024A Pakistani province introduced incentives to get courts to quickly dispose off divorce cases. Sounds like an interesting policy and maybe there is a study there x.com/voicepkdotne...x.comx.com 000
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 07/06/2024US cricket probably wouldn't care if they lose to everyone else now, they have achieved the big upset. For Pakistan fans the only antidote now is to defeat India and/or somehow (very wishful thinking) win the World Cup. 030
Yasir Khan @yasirkhan.bsky.social · 06/06/2024Sad day, a day of mourning, a day of great tragedy. Oh Pakistan Cricket what have you done? How are we going to recover from this humiliation? 3302
Reposted by Yasir KhanSaad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · 19/03/2024🚨 Just accepted at @reveconstudies.bsky.social 🚨 with @yasirkhan.bsky.social We study ordinary people's entry into politics as candidates in a field exp. We show that portraying the job as a prosocial one increases the chances they run & win. Subsequently, policy aligns more w citizen preferences. 4269
Reposted by Yasir KhanThe Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · 08/03/2024``How politics is perceived matters for political selection & policy: when portrayed as enabling pro-social action ordinary people run for office, get elected, and make policies that reflect voter preferences.'' Recently accepted paper, from @saadgulzar.bsky.social & @yasirkhan.bsky.social: 053
