Political Economy. Prize Fellow at Harvard and J-PAL. Assistant Professor at Harvard Economics Department from 2020.
Cambridge, MA
Joined May 2008
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After 30 years, a former People’s Liberation Army journalist who saw the Tiananmen massacre is speaking out: "Everyone who took part must speak up about what they know happened. That’s our duty to the dead, the survivors and the children of the future.” nyti.ms/2I23i1L
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Chart showing which country appeared most in New York Times headlines every month since 1900: pudding.cool/2018/12/countri…
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The brand-new chapter on behavioral development economics by Michael Kremer, @raogautam, and @FrankSchilbach is now online! Heroic piece of work that will help the field set the agenda for the coming years. economics.mit.edu/files/1649…
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The earth’s economic centre of gravity took nearly 2000 years to move to Europe.
It is just taking 50 years to go back to Asia.
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Cool piece @vox_dev on media bias. "Increasing competition in newspaper mkt has meant that propaganda through the mktplace has become less effective." In response Chinese govt switched to social media for propaganda (more concentrated & directly regulated) voxdev.org/topic/institution…
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If you are interested in our #VoxDevTalks series, take a look at all of them! A big thanks to @timsvengali for being such a great partner with @vox_dev on these.
audioboom.com/channels/49707…
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The way most global maps are drawn makes countries away from the equator appear artificially large (because it projects a round globe onto a flat map).
This animation shows how countries would look in true size:
Via @randal_olson
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The capitalist government calls itself communist and teaches communism but crushes students who act like communists instead of capitalists. Students who call themselves communists but act like capitalists are okay though unless they also act like democrats nyti.ms/2NPExM6?smid=nytcore…
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If you are looking for a lighthearted way to learn about the very serious issues going on in contemporary China, take 20 minutes and watch John Oliver's latest segment. I'm very proud to have contributed (in a small way) to the reporting in this video. youtube.com/watch?v=OubM8bD9…
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Fostering an environment in which citizens do not demand uncensored information is critical to effective internet censorship in China
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Here's a quick summary of our paper (with wonderful coauthors @jhaushofer and @cp_roth). Title: "Measuring and Bounding Experimenter Demand," just accepted at the AER (we're thrilled!). (1/12)
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China’s Rising Tax on Information thediplomat.com/2018/02/chin…
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Democracy continues its disturbing retreat econ.st/2EkYkhr
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Intro/intermediate micro teachers (and others): If you want some great material on the complicated relationship between market power and social welfare, here's your teaching example. Read the whole thing. teapawt.org/EnricoVerga/status/942…
With Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Burned, The Dockless Bike Sharing Market Is Imploding forbes.com/sites/evgenytcheb…
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Bundled psychology: @BenjaminEnke on the co-evolution of "psychological police" (religious beliefs, moral values, social preferences, emotions, and social norms) and tightness of kinship groups bit.ly/2iZbYde @DurRobert @nnunn99
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Visualizing a century of global warming, in just 35 seconds: e360.yale.edu/digest/new-vid… (video via @anttilip)
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Hypocrisy free zone at Wuzhen. The special wifi here gets us around the Great Firewall. So in China it's only at the World Internet Conference that the Internet actually connects to the world.
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Around the world dozens of independence movements want to secede. What does it take to create a new country?
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Fun to read alongside @BenjaminEnke's paper on Trump's appeal:
85547718-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.… teapawt.org/ResearchDigest/status/…
Can evolutionary psychology and personality theory explain Trump’s popular appeal? digest.bps.org.uk/2017/11/09…
