Great opportunity for people looking for RA ships this season.

We're releasing the next State of Working India 2026 report in Delhi on the 17th of March, at IHC, 9:30 AM. This year's report looks at the theme of *`Youth in the labour market: Pathways from learning to earning'.* Register here: azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/…

I am looking to hire RAs to support multiple projects related to health and environmental economics @econ_ra More details : iimb.ac.in/research-position…

We are hiring RAs at the Centre for Sustainable Employment @working_india @azimpremjiuniv. RAs work closely with professors and post-docs on State of Working India and related projects. Past RAs have also been co-authors on published papers. Please apply and spread the word.

Our MA Economics programme offers students the option to choose between a research-oriented Thesis track, and a practice-oriented Internship track, in which they work w a development org engaged in on-ground projects. 🧵 on incredible research theses produced by our ‘22 batch

Meet us in Kolkata Date: Saturday, 18 January 2025 Venue: WIPRO Kolkata Campus Register here: forms.gle/TWazyfnBwBxVBXdC7

If you are thinking of the next step of your career after undergraduation in economics - do join this info session in Kolkata. One of our coolest prof is hosting the session !

Our uni is located right at the edge of urban Bengaluru, in the village of Booragunte. What can data tell us about this neighborhood as of 9 April 2024? Out of 400 households in this vibrant village, only 77 households currently have tap connections. How do we know this? 1/n

Actually, @AdiShrinivas's tweet under-sells their results, per which the PDS: (1) reduced stunting (2) improved dietary diversity (3) & increased labour incomes! Their VoxDev summary is aptly titled "The wide-ranging benefits of the world’s largest food transfer programme".

"The prize is as much an acknowledgement for the range of her research, as well as a (belated) recognition ... of such issues, which until recently were not considered worthy of enquiry." @SurbhiKesar and I write on the award for Goldin in @htTweets hindustantimes.com/india-new…

This year’s economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin showed that female participation in the labour market did not have an upward trend over a 200 year period, but instead forms a U-shaped curve. The participation of married women decreased with the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society in the early nineteenth century, but then started to increase with the growth of the service sector in the early twentieth century. Goldin explained this pattern as the result of structural change and evolving social norms regarding women’s responsibilities for home and family. #NobelPrize

SWI 2023 report is now available!

We are coming out with the next edition of the State of Working India report next month. Watch this space and the CSE handle @working_india for more details. Lots of interesting analysis of secondary as well as primary data including India Working Survey supported by @IWWAGEIFMR.

কলকাতার একজনকে নববর্ষের উষ্ণ শুভেচ্ছা জানালাম, ভয়ানক রেগে গেল!

A thread on the representativeness of NFHS-2019-20 data A useful pointer I found while using NFHS 2019-20 women's data. The data was collected from 724115 eligible women aged 15-49 from 707 districts across the country and could be disaggregated at the district level.

Real footage of an R user getting ready to run one command: