Teaches economics @azimpremjiuniv| Ph.D. @UChicago @HarrisPolicy| Behavioral & Development Economics, Political Economy.
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🚨 We’re hiring RAs in Development Economics! 🚨
Work on projects on labor markets, migration & public services through field experiments and primary surveys across India.
📍 Bangalore | Jaipur | Patna
🗓️ Rolling basis – apply by Sept 7, 2025
👉 chinmayakumar.com/research/E…
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The Department of Economics @NTNUnorway is hiring two PhD students, one focused on the political economy of development under my supervision.
The deadline is approaching fast: February 18th! Please help us spread the word.
🚨We are hiring two PhD students🚨
PhD in Political Economy of Development (February 18th):
jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
Open call (March 15th):
jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
Great salary, research environment, and nature! Please circulate widely🙏
#EconTwitter #econjobs #EconJobMarket
Two more days to go before we start reviewing the applications. Please apply if you haven't already!
📢RA Job Alert 📢Looking for multiple full-time Research Associates (RA) to help design and implement a set of online and field experiments in Bihar! Come work with us! Start date: asap. More info: chinmayakumar.com/research/R… @econ_ra #econtwitter
📢RA Job Alert 📢Looking for multiple full-time Research Associates (RA) to help design and implement a set of online and field experiments in Bihar! Come work with us! Start date: asap. More info: chinmayakumar.com/research/R… @econ_ra #econtwitter
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Delighted to be back here to announce the publication of the first volume of my debut. Available at bookstores 10th May onwards. Please consider pre-ordering VAJPAYEE: THE ASCENT OF THE HINDU RIGHT, 1924-77 on the link below: amazon.in/gp/product/9395624…
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For the past 5 years, I've been working with the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission to better understand the connections between public sector recruitment and the labor market.
Today, I'm happy to launch a report that summarizes my main findings:
kmangal.github.io/files/repo…
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Hey #EconTwitter - If you're thinking about grad school and are interested in behavioral and/or development, @Devin_G_Pope and I are both hiring RAs.
We are typically able to sponsor visas. Please share widely!
cc: @econ_ra
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##EconTwitter The Economics group @Sourav_bh @tanikac @ankit_econ at #IIMC is very happy to be hosting @Chinmayak for an in-person talk! Follow us here for more seminar updates (online and offline): sites.google.com/iimcal.ac.i…
The Economics Group of IIM Calcutta announces a Seminar on Complaint Resolution Systems: Experimental Evidence from Rural India by Mr. Chinmaya Kumar (chinmayakumar.com) from Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, on 15/02/2023, 4:00 pm, at A-105, Gr. Floor.
Here is an incredibly articulate thread on my job market paper by the incredibly articulate @cblatts!
How do you build downward accountably into state bureaucracies, where the money comes from the top?
An important new paper by @Chinmayak (on the economics & policy job market) and @sharanidli.
A clever evaluation of India's new intra-governmental complaints resolution system
Just pre-ordered it because books like these are rare! The Bihar he writes about is no longer suttal! @sharanidli जी, किताब मुबारक हो!!
M.R. Sharan’s Last Among Equals is the perfect read for anyone interested in the working of the Indian state, local governance, grassroots activism and life in the Indian villages. Pre-order your copy now: amzn.to/3Eca7cN
@sharanidli @ContextIndia
📢RA Job Alert 📢
Interested in Behavioral Development Economics? Come work with us! We are looking for an India-based RA to help design and run field experiments in Bihar! Start date: asap. More info: chinmayakumar.com/research/J…
@econ_ra
#econtwitter
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I want the world to be silent for a moment so we Afghans can scream our pain in its heart, uninterrupted.
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Why We Fight is out April and available for preorder!
amazon.com/Why-We-Fight-Root…
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📢 COVID RESOURCES FOR BIHAR/JHARKHAND
@kritarthjha set the ball rolling to put together a verified resource sheet for Bihar/Jharkhand (from the hospital). A team of ex-JPAL field staff are calling continuously & verifying everything you'll see here.
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Hi #EconTwitter! I am a @Kennedy_School PhD student on the #econjobmarket. I study labor markets in developing countries - especially in India.
Here's a thread on my JMP:
scholar.harvard.edu/files/km…
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Excellent thread on @wendynassrwong's job market paper!
If you want to curb corruption and mismanagement, audit people unexpectedly, right? "Be unpredictable!" a certain ex-President once said.
Maybe not.
A thread on @wendynassrwong's job market paper.
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Here's one reading of the development story of Bihar in the recent Nitish years, told through the lens of local government and politics.
We begin (see image) with Mr Kamal Manjhi of Darbhanga, an elected rural ward member: blogs.worldbank.org/impactev…
See link for more:
Do minority leaders underperform due to discrimination from above? Would a formal complaints technology helpful in overcoming this discrimination? An excellent summary of our paper in @vox_dev
As racial/ethnic tensions make news the world over, the question of how to make life easier for minorities in government assumes importance.
@vox_dev carries a quick, policy-oriented summary of our work in this regard @Chinmayak: voxdev.org/topic/institution…