Jessica Leight
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
- I now have a new part of my getting-ready routine, which is the part where my 2.5 year old runs over says "no clothes! Don't like clothes!" while hitting my legs and has a tantrum until I change my clothes. (He'll run into my close + tug on whatever he likes best) He's really picky about clothes
- *Very* clickbait-y title summarizing research that -has N of less than 300 -reports only longitudinal associations -uses markers of inflammation measured *at age 7* as a proxy for long-term health risks
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- Call the empirical police: downloaded replication data for a very well-published paper and found that part of the analysis was actually done in *Excel* as my mother would say, quelle horreur
- Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @karansinghal93 @uni_lu @liserinlux who works on topics related to gender, labor + social protection
- One published paper joint w/ Sarin + @r_advaita analyzes the effects of COVID-19 lockdowns in India + finds hhs with migrants (while advantaged ex ante) faced more adverse effects of COVID-related shocks, + were less likely to access any social protection www.tandfonline.com/...
- Another paper published in Feminist Economics (w/Dongre + Das) analyzes missing women in academic economics in India; finds that despite women constituting a majority at the masters' level, overall they are less than 1/3 at most levels of academia www.tandfonline.com/...
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