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Richard Akresh

@RichardAkresh

Development economist, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illinois, USA sites.google.com/view/RichardAk… Joined May 2019
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Richard Akresh @RichardAkresh
Super fascinating visualization of the impact of ignoring social distancing.
Tectonix @TectonixGEO Mar 25, 2020
Want to see the true potential impact of ignoring social distancing? Through a partnership with @xmodesocial, we analyzed secondary locations of anonymized mobile devices that were active at a single Ft. Lauderdale beach during spring break. This is where they went across the US:
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Richard Akresh @RichardAkresh
@germancaruso has 2 very nice papers in JDE in 2015 and 2017 about natural disasters and long run and intergenerational impacts. That would be a good place to start.
David Evans @DaveEvansPhD Jan 16, 2020
@koen_geven @shwetlena @rafadehoyos @aidthoughts @RichardAkresh Yeah, I'm surprised there aren't lots of papers on this. I've seen work on the impact of droughts on fertility papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… but not on education.
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Richard Akresh @RichardAkresh
Some really good advice from @AlexBartik about things to consider when picking research projects. Goes beyond "select a credible identification strategy" and gets at the human side of the project, something economists often forget about
AlexBartik @AlexBartik Nov 14, 2019
I really like Owen's advice below (and a bunch of the other responses to Ivan's q), but I have a few thoughts on a different aspect of project choice during grad school
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Richard Akresh @RichardAkresh
Thanks to @bIGIdeas_UoB for organizing the lecture. And to @interfields and @chriskdarko for inviting me to Birmingham. Wonderful inter-disciplinary visit meeting lots of non-economists doing research in Africa. Learned a lot this week.
David Evans @david_evans_11 Sep 18, 2019
Huge thanks to @RichardAkresh who delivered today’s @bIGIdeas_UoB lecture on the inter generational effects of the Biafran war. Great to see economists, medics and regional experts come together for this one.
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