Jessica Leight
@leightjessica.bsky.social
Development economist, @Yale / @UniofOxford / @MIT. Asso editor, REHO + CER. Editorial board member, BMC Public Health + PloS One. Structural transformation, agriculture, gender, IPV. Views my own
Economics
25%
Public Health
17%
[I assume that's not something I would do right away, in any case.] Are there resources for getting started? Most of what I'm seeing seems either written for professional programmers or written for those who have already experimented w/the tool or both
Thanks, this is helpful - and I'm sure I could get comfortable with git. Still looking for more examples of "if I want to install and experiment with claude code, what should I do first/second/third". E.g. from your response above - I've heard of a Claude skill, but no idea how to create one
(i.e., set-up, installation, etc.) Have scanned a number of websites/tools and have not found them to be accessible, at all. Suggestions welcome!
Reposted by Todd Pugatch
Hesitating very much to put this on the internet, but: any suggestions for guides for exploring Claude code for applied micro analysis (these days I mostly work on RCTs); primarily in R; not a current Github user (I'm open to changing); AND step-by-step from very beginning
Phoebe W. Ishak
Phoebe W. Ishak
sites.google.com
Plus lots, lots more - check out her work!
And evidence from Brazil that adverse weather shocks (drought) ⬆️ crime @WorldDevJournal
www.sciencedirect.co...
www.sciencedirect.co...
Paper published in EDCC joint w/@pgmeon finds positive effects of oil shocks in Brazilian municipalities on wages, night lights, population (but also crime), and some negative spillovers in neighboring municipalities
www.journals.uchicag...
www.journals.uchicag...
Another paper finds that long-run income shocks in the form of oil windfalls significantly + persistently ⬇️ fertility in SSA, seemingly mainly through the channel of ⬆️ women's educational attainment
www.sciencedirect.co...
www.sciencedirect.co...
One published paper finds that income shocks in SSA are generally associated w/ ⬆️ educational attainment if experienced early in life, but the sign can reverse in adolescence. Joint w/Gradstein @cepr_org
www.journals.uchicag...
www.journals.uchicag...
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @PhoebeIshak @WorldBank who works on topics related to gender, labor, and natural resources
Maybe I should buy it! Though, I already know how to use chatgpt (incl for fixing my Latex formatting, which I agree is a very useful use case). Thinking more about other tools
Where's the AI tool that will read all of the tweets about AI and then tell me how to efficiently use AI. that's the tool I want
Finally my 2025 book collage! Heavy on mysteries this year, I find it hard to marshal the cognitive energy for other things; but also enjoyed a fascinating human-interest book on international adoptions from China, Gilead (quiet beautiful novel), and going back to Kiran Desai
Evite just sent me an advertising email with title "fiancé season". 2 reactions
-is there really a season for fiancés?
-shouldn't the robot advertising overlords know I've been married for a long time?
-is there really a season for fiancés?
-shouldn't the robot advertising overlords know I've been married for a long time?
Real footage of my kids today when I tried to get them ready for the first day of school post-break
Depressing and all-too-real commentary on the scientific funding process, which increasingly seems to consume more value than it generates (h/t @a_peterman on Linkedin)
And while that type of story is widely discussed in the sports press (for lots of sports, not just baseball), in practice it's a very rare phenomenon as this study shows. Most people aren't that good at sports + rationally recognize probability of professional sports success converges to zero
For those with baseball talent, the advent of MLB recruitment implies the (perceived) possibility of a very high-return labor market activity w/no educational requirements - so the hypothesis was, people would drop out of school to chase their baseball dreams
Anu Jose
I am a post-doctoral researcher at the J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, University of Galway, where I work on the ACACIA (Horizon Europe) project, focusing on improving climate services for at-risk communities in Madagascar.
My research interests include, but not limited to,
sites.google.com
And exciting work in progress addresses stress among female entrepreneurs in Ethiopia (joint with @adiam haile Hailemicheal, @NairaKalra and medhin selamu). Check out her work!
Brand-new findings w/ a large team show that multicomponent intervention targeting widespread violence in schools in Zambia does ⬆️ student discussions about violence in schools, but does not shift violence itself
ideas.repec.org/p/wb...
ideas.repec.org/p/wb...
labeling resources as collective didn't alter these patterns, but shifting spousal visibility of accounts does ideas.repec.org/p/tc...
A second working paper joint w/ King + Bedi uses a lab-in-the-field experiment in Kolkata to explore allocation of income earned by women: finds that women allocate more income to accounts over which they have control. . .
One paper explores gendered effects of rainfall shocks on consumption in Ethiopia: shows that negative household level income shock ⬇️ female expenditures relative to male expenditures (by up to a third), w/differential gendered labor supply responses
mpra.ub.uni-muenchen...
mpra.ub.uni-muenchen...
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky (happy 2026 edition!) is @anujose_anu at the University of Galway, who works on topics related to behavioral economics, gender, and development
Werner @ahmedskali: direct exposure to violent conflict ⬇️ out-group trust, ⬆️ in-group trust (in Indonesia). Indirect exposure ⬇️ trust (JDE)
www.sciencedirect.co...
Check them all out!
www.sciencedirect.co...
Check them all out!
@evavivalt, Coville + Sampada: policymakers prefer programs with a local impact evaluation + recommended by a local expert; this outweighs differences in treatment effects (JDE)
www.sciencedirect.co...
www.sciencedirect.co...
Srinivas @ben_crost Baylis: The large-scale expansion of food transfers in India ⬇️ childhood stunting (AEJ-Applied)
www.aeaweb.org/artic...
www.aeaweb.org/artic...
Khan: Providing a training aimed to strengthen mission motivation to community health workers in Pakistan improved their performance + improved child health (AER)
www.aeaweb.org/artic...
www.aeaweb.org/artic...
Dupas et al.: Huge randomized trial suggesting that in one of the highest fertility contexts (Burkina Faso) in the world, no effect of increased contraceptive access on ⬇️ fertility (AER)
www.aeaweb.org/artic...
www.aeaweb.org/artic...