Ryan Edwards

The scope of the paper is now much broader than the initial version, but all in good ways (bar the temporal dimension, as there appears to have been a post-2015 shift), and reduces the scope for more papers that just do the same with a different dependent variable. The broad picture works.

Predictably, all responsibility lies with me and not the editor or reviewers!

It's amusing though, since the first online draft I'd shared the data with multiple authors who then wrote various papers not citing it and making "first" claims lol.

Is that seminar invite prof?

I was going to joke that I'm perhaps single-handedly responsible for their submission to publication statistic, but they take the median.

More seriously, incredible patience and generosity from the editor as my life got in the way and I did all the other things instead. I'm very grateful.

Export agriculture and rural poverty: Evidence from Indonesian palm oil This paper measures the impacts of Indonesia’s palm oil export expansion on district poverty and household expenditure from 2002 to 2015. Identificati…

Two minor updates, friends:

- As of 1 January 2026, I'm an Associate Professor.

- As of today, the first paper I started writing on palm oil, about a decade ago, is in print in the Journal of International Economics.

Read, share, cite. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Maybe stuffing university board of directors with businesspeople was not a great idea.

I’m sorry, Michael

I was one of the USAID officials that the White House called “radical left Marxists who hate America”.

These statements are unmitigated trash. My colleagues sacrificed and risked a lot to serve the America they love. Not one of them had one minute for Marxism.

Just poisonous logorrhea.

Happy late 40th to me

In a new @i4replication.bsky.social report we replicate Islam (2019). Main issue: the randomized controlled trial was not randomized. And many other things on top of that. See full report for details. (w/ @carlbonander.bsky.social, @nikljako.bsky.social, @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social, Bensch & Brodeur)

This is us. We asked Asad to step aside before we had any results. GDRI was not involved in our data collection (thankfully).

Quite a thread. Vivid demonstration that @i4replication.bsky.social and other mechanisms above individual journals are vital for scientific hygiene

#GDRI_rep Update 4: We have a new report. We reproduced the paper entitled "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes" by Islam @ European Economic Review. See below for links to report and author's response.

#GDRI_rep Update 2: I4R sent a report to the original authors for the PLOS One article "“Food insecurity and mental health of women during COVID-19: Evidence from a developing country". All authors have now emailed PLOS One to withdraw their names. osf.io/7tzek/

We have a new report out about the #GDRI_rep. The paper has not been retracted but all three authors have withdrawn their names.

Disease, Disparities, and Development: Evidence from Chagas Disease Control in Brazil Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Cool new paper by @eduardomontero.bsky.social and JD Denton-Schneider...

Eliminating Chagas disease in Brazil raised income by 11%! Larger gains for non-whites, reducing racial inequality. Public health interventions can address both development and inequality...

www.nber.org/papers/w3351...

We will provide another update and release two or three reports shortly. See osf.io/23x64/ for more information. And our original thread here: bsky.app/profile/i4re...

I also personally sent a link to this thread to the university's Research Integrity office the next day, and I later sent links to two replication reports along with I4R contact details. The University processes currently underway are described here: publicpolicydms.monash.edu/Monash/docum...

#GDRI_rep Update 1: I4R are now reproducing all published papers that use data from GDRI, or are closely related in other ways. Here is a first update on our work. 🧵

I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.

Dean Karlan, Chief Economist at USAID, has resigned

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Helpful to think what a best, durable, sustainable practice is in terms of data repositories and access for these publicly funded collections (for research, I've landed on OSF vs SSRN and dataverses) given that someone does need to manage them. Good to know this is where to get you :)

Excellent. I'm home on leave with COVID so scrolling far more than normal, but saw the US/international discussion and thought that SPC/SDD does seem unique globally in its public service repository/intermediary role (more like WB, IPUMS) vis a vis managing contractors like the DHS disappearing act.

How to write your abstracts in empirical micro:

Hey Peter you’re off the other site aren’t you? Some interesting discussion around future of DHS accessibility there that seems rtyi and to sdd micro work..

Wild stuff. How come no one thought of this