After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵
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Léonard Wantchekon's autobiography is spectacular. What a life. Tortured by the regime in Benin in his student days. Years in prison. Escaped to Nigeria, then Côte d'Ivoire, from there to Canada. PhD at Northwestern, first job at Yale. Founder of the African School of Economics.
Highly recommended 👇
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Applied microeconomist at OSU. Development, agricultural productivity, malnutrition, measurement error. Ashtangi mom. Child of immigrant.
Research @ DIME World Bank
Development Economist.
Origins in Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb.
Professor@University of Sheffield. Food systems, nutrition, sustainability, equity, economics, policy & interdisciplinarity; plants, rabbits, cool jazz, languages. Learning Welsh.
The path forward includes Universal Basic Income and some other great stuff - which will almost certainly require Ranked Choice Voting and a new approach to politics. Think Abundance.
Changing the world for the better through world-class social science research and education. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/ucl-social-research-institute
CLS is home to a unique series of UK national cohort studies. We conduct research and produce policy evidence to improve lives.
We are based at the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. We are funded by the ESRC.
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CCS is a world-leading centre for critical interdisciplinary research into the past, present & future of capitalism, led by @ariskomporozos.bsky.social
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Professor of Economics. Founding Director of the UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (@cepeo-ucl.bsky.social). Economics of education. Inequality. Research Fellow at the IFS, IZA and CESifo. 1st gen🏴�
Professor of Social Science at University College London | Head of UCL Social Research Institute | Chair of Release | Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences | Interested in: drug policy, social science, critical theory, history | www.tobyseddon.com
Economist working on inequality and access to education. Deputy Director of @cepeo-ucl. Research associate of @cep-lse Research fellow @iza_bonn
Research Fellow @ CLOSER, UCL Social Research Institute
ECR Chair-Elect & newsletters @ SocSocMed
Early Career Network co-lead @ UCL SRI
Quantitative Social Scientist at UCL. Runs models by day, oscillators by night.
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Professor of Economics at UCL
Research Fellow at IFS, CEPR, CESIFO, IZA
Assistant Professor of Economics @UCL @UCLSocRes and Senior Research Fellow @mtakti_iehas
Research Fellow at @Glabor_org & @iza_bonn
FiF graduate
Labor economist interested in gender, education, fertility and intergenerational mobility.
Statistician || @clscohorts.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
Professor of Social Research & Policy
Co-Director of EPPI Centre, UCL
Evidence synthesis, computer science
