Aranya Chakraborty

Information is power: ICT and agricultural productivity One reason for low agricultural productivity in developing countries is that farmers lack sufficient information or guidance in the use of modern agricultural methods. This article examines the impact...

I am pleased to share my article (co-authored with Digvijay Singh Negi and Rahul Rao), published in Ideas for India, which summarizes our research on the impact of ICT-based agricultural extension services in Bangladesh.

Link to the article: bit.ly/4jiZyJ9

Link to the paper: bit.ly/3MsN0QY

@osc.ac Thanks!

Claudia Goldin: Nobel (and superstar)

In this Substack, I discuss some of her major contributions to Economics, including today's publication, "Why Women Won"

draliceevans.substack.com/p/claudia-go...

Just the MOST incredible news! 🎉🎉🎉

The classic "Econometric Theory and Methods" by Davidson and MacKinnon is available for free on their website. Still a great resource for learning and teaching econometrics at the graduate level #statsky #econsky

qed.econ.queensu.ca/ETM

We started @malengo.org in 2021 to support Ugandan students on their journey to a Bachelor's degree in Germany. We admitted 10 students in 2021; 30 in 2022; and 120 in 2023.

Our next goal: FOUR HUNDRED!

We urgently need both investors and donors — please read and spread widely! 1/n

Won't be a Twitter replacement without an Econ Nobel prize prediction thread.

Who do you think will win the Econ Nobel prize this year? My bet is on Claudia Goldin.

Ok, truth telling time. Do you filter who you give your BlueSky codes to or hand them out to whoever asks first come first serve? 📉📈
#EconSky: Supply and demand, or "benevolent" central planner? (all for the sake of keeping the good vibes here) How about you, #eduskyers?

Should governments prioritize ambient levels or within-day peaks in air pollution?

⚫ Reducing ambient requires regulations addressing externalities
⚫ Peaks are often driven by private actions and thus require addressing private barriers

🧵 on my new NBER WP with @joshtdean.bsky.social

#EconSky

Is more information better for forecast accuracy? It depends! The more data we have the more accurate are our forecasts, typically. Unless, of course, we deal with something like a random walk model, in which case only one data point—the most recent observatio...

Another repost from earlier this year on information set and forecast accuracy.
theguessproject.substack.com/p/is-more-in...

I wanted to say: thanks for the work. The data editors are restoring my trust in science :-)

So HI! We are here now.

And I wanted to start with a shoutout to all the Data Editors out there: I just got the following message from an author (who has work to do!), and it felt good! @koren.mk (ReStud) + others not (yet) on 📈📉 (Ecta, EJ, CJE, MgmtS, EI, etc. - you know who you are!)

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Some thoughts about my experiment using a data editor. First, he is awesome: careful and timely. A big round of applause to Adam Spencer.

We want well-documented code and data packets. We encourage authors to follow these guidelines social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_REA...

Hey Stata folks! Want to visually present your regression results? I made a guide. It covers key aesthetics, combining results from multiple models, working w/ logit models, & more. Oh, and I provide all the code. Comments/feedback welcome! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

social network taxonomy

Its hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are at the moment. They have blown past anything we've previously experienced by a huge margin.

Over at The Climate Brink, we try and visualize this summer of extremes in seven charts. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/visualizin...

Asking for your help #EconSky !! I’m interested in your favorite paper using an IV strategy with data available for PhD 2nd year class on methods. Thank you :)

So, I started to build this feed

It’s available here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

To be included, please fill this form: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Repost appreciated!

Skeet @ labnotes.org Find your Twitter/Mastodon follows on BlueSky

VERY useful: Find people you follow on 🐦&🐘 here:
skeet.labnotes.org?index

(although I really wonder how it works without TwitterAPI 🤔)

Reposting this here for #EconSky 📉📈

Updated draft of my JMP, "Network-Based Targeting with Heterogeneous Agents for Improving Technology Adoption," and a Blog Post summarizing the paper are now available.

Link: tinyurl.com/5n67mxm2
Blog Post: tinyurl.com/2w4emwkx
Twitter 🧵: tinyurl.com/5n8spy8v

Thanks, @pkpd-babe.bsky.social, for the invite. Looking forward to exploring this site.

#HiSciSky!

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Amrut Mody School of Management at Ahmedabad University. My research interests lie in the intersection of development and information economics.

#EconSky 📉📈 #AcademicSky #Introduction