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Nov 26, 2023 • 1 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
My advice for JMCs is to pick jobs that maximise the prob. that 10 years on you've answered questions you find meaningful. Helps avoid academia's most soul destroying outcome-writing papers only for tenure. Low teaching & mentors/coauthors are more useful than dept rank or money

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Jan 17, 2024
What are returns to infrastructure spending in India? Two studies looked at two UPA+NDA era investments (Asher and Novosad 2020, Burlig and Preens 2022) - rural electricity and rural roads. Both find no impact on rural welfare indicators over 5-10 year periods. How/Why? (1/4)
Both schemes had population cutoffs so they look at villages just below cutoff (did not get connections/roads) and just above (did get connections/roads). No difference in welfare indicators. So yes, we need roads/power but it's not enough by themselves. These are facts.(2/4) Image
We should care about growth not capex spending, so where is the money going? Between 2021-22 and 2022-23, road allocation up by 51%, rail up by 16%. Health? No increase. Rural Dev? Down 11%. Education: Up 18% but spending is *half* of roads. Environment? 1.5% (!) of Roads.(3/4)
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Jan 3, 2024
This is not an NDA vs UPA post. But as India approaches elections, there’s a lot of chatter about how the current govt is doing well because they are spending more on infrastructure. Capex is up. Is this the best way of looking at performance? (1/6)
We are often awestruck by Chinese infrastructure-wide roads, trains, fancy skyscrapers. But this is both an input to economic growth *and* an outcome. And research shows infra alone does not lead to economic transformation. (2/6)

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There’s a vast gap b/w India&China on education. Unable to hide differences in infra, India opts out of comparative school tests. Except in 2011 when govt schools from 2 best performing states took the PISA test. They finished near bottom. Chinese students now rank first (3/6) Image
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