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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I’m a Sr. Economist (using a now-old headshot) at the World Bank. Working on self-employment, informality, and firms. Views my own.
development economist, president emerita Center for Global Development (@cgdev.org), hoping some of my Twitter followers move over to BlueSky
Education and education policy in South Asia.
PhD candidate at Harvard University.
Applied microeconomist at OSU. Development, agricultural productivity, malnutrition, measurement error. Ashtangi mom. Child of immigrant. Horrified by the genocide in Gaza.
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.
Entrepreneur who wants good things for people. Putting money in people’s hands is the best thing we can do in the age of AI. Let’s make it happen. CEO Noble Mobile.
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.
https://cls.ucl.ac.uk
CCS is a world-leading centre for critical interdisciplinary research into the past, present & future of capitalism, led by @ariskomporozos.bsky.social
CEPEO is a UCL research centre working to improve education policy and wider practice to equalise opportunities http://ucl.ac.uk/ioe/cepeo
UCL Sociology Network is a creative space and intellectual home for sociological staff and doctoral students at UCL.
Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/collaborative-social-science/ucl-sociology-network
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 | 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
Associate Professor in Quantitative Social Science at UCL. Runs models by day, oscillators by night.
brksnmz.github.io
Professor of Economics at UCL
Research Fellow at IFS, CEPR, CESIFO, IZA
