Belinda Archibong @belindaarch Twitter profile

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Belinda Archibong

4 years

I want to share a new(ish) paper with @nonso2 on prison labor and police that was accepted for presentation at the @nberpubs DAE SI and took over 2 years of archival data collection: But before the results, some background on why we wrote this paper: 1/n

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

1 year

The path to US citizenship is not easy (understatement, as my fellow immigrants know) but 22 years of school/work and thousands of dollars in application fees later, happy to announce that I am now a citizen of the United States of America 🥳

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

4 years

As a 'development economist', I've always been somewhat uncomfortable with the title, due to its imperialist history. It's important to ask 'development for who'?And if the answer is not one that respects the dignity of poor/marginalized people,then we're doing actual harm/wrong

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Extremely happy to announce that I've been officially promoted to Associate Professor with tenure @BarnardCollege . Thank-you very much to everyone in the department @barnardecon and all who've provided support in the profession and beyond over the last few years 1/2

Rajiv Sethi

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The @barnardecon department congratulates @belindaarch on her well-deserved promotion to Associate Professor with tenure... Congratulations Belinda!

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

3 years

"Economics: Evidence from Africa"= 1 city/country in the African continent 😂

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@belindaarch

4 years

Just received very useful piece of advice on a research project from a superb, amazing senior economist that I really admire: "Not every paper needs to be about causality". We can still do good, important research that is not focused on estimating causal effects #EconTwitter

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

4 years

After weeks of teaching on Zoom and years of research on inequality, I’ve been thinking a lot about how Zoom essentially provides windows of inequality and literally highlights unequal backgrounds of our students. This is concerning for a few reasons: 1/n

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

2 years

It's the start of the semester and she's not on twitter, but I'm incredibly happy/delighted/overjoyed to welcome Ebonya Washington as a colleague @columbia_econ @Columbia !! An absolutely brilliant scholar and economist and a truly fantastic addition to the CU community! 🥳

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

1 year

Happy to announce that I've been appointed as a Faculty Research Fellow at NBER @nberpubs and very excited to participate further as part of the Development program! Thank-you very much to everyone who nominated me and I very much appreciate all your support!

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

3 years

Wow, so is this the part where the US et al. apologizes to South Africa and the other banned African countries...

CBS News

@CBSNews

3 years

JUST IN: Omicron COVID variant was in Europe before South African scientists detected and flagged it to the world

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

3 years

3 lessons I've learned so far as a Black woman in academia/econ: 1. don’t let folks gaslight you- yes that person was being racist/sexist, doesn’t matter if they’re 'like that to everyone' 2. It’s ok to say no 3. Dust yourself off after journal rejections, your work is important

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

3 months

A friend told me that Black women are only 2%(!) of tenured faculty in the US, and I, as an early 30s millennial who got her Phd at 25, went from arriving here as a poor Nigerian immigrant to being a tenured US citizen economics professor. Truly a started from the bottom story

Dr. T. Anansi Wilson JD/PhD

@blaqueerflow

3 months

Black folks: post a true, non-humble, flex about yourself that you’d never say out loud because you have couth. I wanna see Ya’ll BRAG on what your Ancestors have rendered! Me: I’m one the best thinkers, writers and speakers of my generation.

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

6 years

New evidence that diversity matters for health: "Our findings suggest black doctors could help reduce cardiovascular mortality by 16 deaths per 100,000 per year — leading to a 19% reduction in the black-white male gap in cardiovascular mortality"

Seema Jayachandran

@seema_econ

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Black men who (randomly) see a black doctor (rather than non-black one) choose to take up more of the suggested care, such as flu shots. Super impressive field experiment -- involved setting up + running a medical clinic in Oakland! Ungated copy:

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

5 years

We are working on a paper on ethnic and gender bias in hiring and saw this very interesting AEJ paper: "Discriminators are on average willing to forego 8 percent of their earnings to avoid a coworker of the other ethnic type. The evidence suggests that animus [explains this]"

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

2 years

Happy Black History Month- today I want to talk about protests, and specifically whether protests can work to influence economic redistribution using evidence from our newish paper here: 1/n

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@belindaarch

3 years

Can I just ask that any fellow economists newly interested in studies on race do a deep dive into the Review of Black Political Economy @RevBlkPolEcon and properly cite the Black economists that have been doing this research for decades, thanks #EconTwitter

Megan Stevenson

@MeganTStevenson

3 years

I love that economists are now interested in race but I am not keen on the recent string of papers using quasi-experimental methods to test for racial bias, using bail as the setting. For one, their model of bail setting behavior is wrong, which makes the inference wrong. 1/

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

4 years

Happy new year! In this new year let me encourage researchers on Africa (esp economists) to cite African scholars. If you say you are doing work on " 'x' in 'Africa' '', your review is incomplete if you don't have at least a few African scholars in your references #EconTwitter

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

3 years

Happy Black History Month. I've been thinking about protests for a few years now. Below are 2 papers that are the culmination of 4+ years of research and archival work. TLDR: Does protest matter? Well your government may not respond the way you want, but your kids might

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

2 years

There were/are no good colonizers. There is no such thing as a good colonialist. Repeating this for next time I present our research about the British exploitation of forced prison labor in Africa and someone asks if they were "better than the French or the Belgians though?"...

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@ChaoTayiana

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More than 50 years after Kenya gained independence, details of the horrific atrocities committed by the British colonial government are still coming to light. Now showing on @Aljazeera , A Very British Way of Torture is a must watch.

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@belindaarch

3 years

@DinaPomeranz The funniest thing to me was talking to a labor economist about this paper and our experiments in online labor markets, who was very interested until I mentioned that it was in Nigeria, after which his eyes glazed over and he told me to talk to the 'development people' instead 😂

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

3 years

Academia is a strange and interesting world- perhaps the only place where folks will demand your unpaid labor and then frame it as if they're doing you a favor 😂

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@belindaarch

4 years

Final new paper of the day, stop by our session in 30 mins to hear about how negative news about Pfizer's 1996 epidemic drug trials on children in Nigeria set back global polio eradication efforts by over a decade @ASSA2021

Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

4 years

We’ll be presenting 3 papers (with excellent co-authors @ucheekhator , @fannan2316 ) on epidemics at the @ASSAMeeting this week (fingers crossed for stable internet access in Lagos). Stop by our panels for a great set of new research on epidemics. Comments welcome and appreciated.

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@belindaarch

4 years

It’s been a tough year and I’ve been getting a ton of questions/media requests to explain how epidemics can increase inequalities around race and gender. So re-posting this paper with @fannan2316 for reference. We wanted to understand how epidemics affect gender inequality 1/n

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

1 year

One of my favorite recent papers illustrating the importance of racial diversity for human capital outcomes in AER @AEAjournals - conclusion: yes, diversity does matter for health and "black doctors could reduce the black-white male gap in cardiovascular mortality by 19%" 1/n

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@belindaarch

4 years

Said it before but the way the US treats its Black citizens has consequences for Black people globally. This is why Black Lives Matter as a movement is so crucial

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@NPR

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Activists in Belgium are demanding the removal of statues of King Leopold II, who oversaw the brutal colonization and exploitation of Congo.

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@belindaarch

2 years

PSA to all scholars-please read and cite Black scholars.Especially when studying a topic that has been studied extensively by Black scholars. No you did not invent the topic/question and to pretend otherwise is negligence at best, willful misrepresentation at worst #EconTwitter

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@belindaarch

3 years

In celebration of Women's Day, everyone, especially economists, should read "Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner" by @katrinemarcal : Thought provoking and absolutely hilarious analysis of how women,and the marginalization of women shaped economics #EconTwitter

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@belindaarch

3 years

I know we tend to undervalue teaching relative to research in the econ profession, but just took a look at my evaluations from last year, and was heartened by the lovely comments from students about how much they enjoyed learning in my classes despite the online environment 1/n

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

5 years

I've spent the past few months travelling in West Africa, doing research and talking with private sector and policy makers. 3 realizations: 1. Ghana has an amazing airport, a truly inspiring model of economic development, also some of the nicest immigration officials I've met

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

2 years

Here we go again in 2022 with the almost predictable, at this point, attacks on the scholarship of accomplished Black women. Dr Lisa Cook is a fantastic scholar, economist and all round human being, and the Fed frankly would be fortunate to have her as a member

Steven N. Durlauf

@sndurlauf

2 years

1/ Lisa Cook is an accomplished economist and creative thinker. Having read many of her papers and had numerous opportunities to interact with her, I am certain she will be an outstanding member of the Federal Reserve Board, assuming bad faith attacks do not prevail.

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

3 years

Happy to report that our paper with @BSangafowaCoul and @NOIweala on Washington Consensus Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa is now out in the @AEAjournals Journal of Economic Perspectives here:

Anusha Chari

@anusha_chari

3 years

Great to see the symposium on the Washington Consensus in print in the @AEAjournals JEP!

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@belindaarch

4 years

"Whenever white folks receive something from the government it's never referred to as a handout"- @SandyDarity presenting excellent, important work on reparations owed to Black-Americans in the US at the #PennRaceAndEcon conference

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@belindaarch

3 years

Settling in for a very intensive resubmit at a top journal and I am heartened both by the support of senior colleagues and the story of the publication of @drlisadcook 's fantastic, groundbreaking paper on the effects of lynchings on economic activity:

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@belindaarch

1 year

Had a great time discussing research with these fantastic economists at the #NBERSI meetings. Also really interesting set of papers at the Dev session and reputed to be "kindest" SI to date (cc: @econ_mar @bzdiop @oyebolaoo @fannan2316 @MackenzieAlsto4 @melesemesay @RobynnCox :)

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@belindaarch

3 years

Excellent new paper by @SandyDarity , @DarrickHamilton , Myers, Price and Xu in @ILRReview refutes previous research on racial differences in Black-White work effort as an explanation for the racial wage gap. Hoping the ‘Are Black people lazy” type research ends with 2021

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@belindaarch

1 year

Listen to me gush about the excellent @QJEHarvard paper on the church as insurance from @amma_panin and great co-authors in NPR's @planetmoney here: Thanks to @_jeffguo @planetmoney for inviting me to share some of my story as well

To all the econ papers I've loved before : Planet Money

A great economics paper does two things. It takes on a big question, and it finds a smart way to answer that question.But some papers go even further. The very best papers have the power to change...

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

3 years

Thank you very much to everyone for the kind words and messages and very much looking forward to joining @BrookingsInst as a Rubenstein Fellow!

Brookings Global

@BrookingsGlobal

3 years

We're pleased to welcome @Belindaarch and @D_E_Resnick as our newest Rubenstein Fellows. We look forward to supporting their important work on political economy and development with a special focus on Africa.

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3 years

Lessons from econ/academia pt2: My Nigerian/African self is always happy to see carefully done economics work on African countries. But also need 4 regular reminders for students/colleagues/myself that: 1.There is, in fact, no such thing as an Africa expert 1/n

Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

3 years

3 lessons I've learned so far as a Black woman in academia/econ: 1. don’t let folks gaslight you- yes that person was being racist/sexist, doesn’t matter if they’re 'like that to everyone' 2. It’s ok to say no 3. Dust yourself off after journal rejections, your work is important

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

2 years

Very pleased to be joining @OIGInstitute as part of a great group of scholars!

Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute

@OIGInstitute

2 years

The Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute is pleased to announce its 6th cohort of visiting scholars. These outstanding researchers bring new ideas and insights that contribute to our understanding of how to enhance economic opportunity and well-being for all.

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@belindaarch

4 years

To truly diversify the economics profession, we need to promote the work of Black scholars by citing Black economists. Especially when it comes to crucial work on race and the intersection of race and gender that Black economists have pioneered for decades #EconTwitter

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@belindaarch

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I think we don’t talk enough about the absolute disrespect and aggression directed at Black women globally, because just got back from a conference in Rome and whew, that was a trip, and not in a fun way, which is why I have a new proposal for academic conferences 1/n

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@belindaarch

3 years

PSA, one of the things I learned as a student/now tell my students is how to request a reference letter. 4 steps: 1. Remember to phrase your email as a request not a demand,this is a favor you are requesting from the letter writer who is time constrained 1/n #AcademicTwitter

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@belindaarch

4 years

'We only rent to foreigners not Nigerians', 'we don't rent to single women', 'we don't rent to lawyers', 'who is your pastor?': Actual words from Nigerian landlords to prospective tenants in Lagos, Nigeria. Truly incredible, also a huge research project here #EconTwitter

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@belindaarch

11 months

Our paper on "Climate Change, Epidemics and Inequality”/new go-to citation on the links between climate, epidemics and inequality is now out at the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy @ReepAere here:

Climate Change, Epidemics, and Inequality | Review of Environmental Economics and Policy: Vol 17,...

Abstract What are the links among climate change, epidemics, and socioeconomic inequality? Although the recent pandemic has focused attention on the effects of epidemics on economic outcomes, and a...

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

2 years

In time for the end of COP27 (+ ~ Twitter?),happy to share our paper on“Climate Change, Epidemics and Inequality”/new go-to citation on the links between climate, epidemics and inequality is conditionally accepted at the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy @ReepAere 1/n

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4 years

I once had coffee with a famous white economist who I was excited to meet for the first time,who then proceeded to,abruptly,tell me about how though she had been mugged once by a Black man, she tried to feel no animosity towards Black people...I'd just wanted to talk research...

Michael Harriot

@michaelharriot

4 years

It’s not just your experience, it’s true. Even though +95% of black people AREN’T criminals, numerous studies show that white people’s perception of crime rate is related to the number of black people they see. The best of these studies is here:

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@belindaarch

3 years

Many insightful critiques of economics circulating recently, but I will say I definitely had fun teaching dominant strategy equilibria using both Squid Game and Law and Order SVU today, not sure how many other fields let you do that #EconTwitter

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@belindaarch

2 years

In the spirit of these critiques, hoping that 2022 marks the end of the trend of development economists taking pictures of/with other people's children in African countries for their research pages/presentations (same for those pictures with the "natives" in "the field")

Lorraine King

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Seriously, I can't stop looking at this photo and thinking wasn't there anyone in their PR team who warned Will and Kate 'it's not a good idea to look like colonial slave masters' 🤔

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@belindaarch

4 years

PSA- please don't confuse the names of the 2 Black students in your class. We all make mistakes, but when it's constant behavior, it can be really demoralizing to students if it seems that the professor can't be bothered to differentiate between the 2 Black students in class...

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@belindaarch

3 years

Presenting this paper with @fannan2316 on how Pfizer's 1996 epidemic drug trials in Nigeria set back child vaccination+global polio eradication efforts by over a decade with potential costs borne by population>>Pfizer settlement @NBER health SI today 1/n:

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@belindaarch

4 years

New paper draft with @fannan2316 on how Pfizer's 1996 epidemic drug trials on Nigeria set back global polio eradication efforts by over a decade is now online here: A short paper thread 1/n:

Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

4 years

Final new paper of the day, stop by our session in 30 mins to hear about how negative news about Pfizer's 1996 epidemic drug trials on children in Nigeria set back global polio eradication efforts by over a decade @ASSA2021

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5 years

In case folks are at or around Yale @Yale tomorrow, I will be presenting my paper with @nonso2 on the economics of prison labor, the price of prisons and the lasting effects of incarceration at the Econ History seminar:

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

4 years

Taught a course on credit markets today, and had to resist my cultural urge to use Nigerianisms like "if someone borrows you money" which actually means "if someone lends you money" 😂 cc @oyebolaoo @makispoke

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

3 years

In anticipation of fall planning, posting my personal PSA that as a Black woman scholar, I request to not be invited to any committees seeking "diverse voices" that don't want to have serious (`uncomfortable') conversations about race/racism, gender/sexism and misogynoir. Thanks

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

1 year

I had a great time presenting + hearing about all the excellent research colleagues are working on at the Race, Racism and Structural Inequality conference @DukeU this weekend. Thanks to @bocar_a @FenabaAddo @PatBayerNC @DaniaFrancis @MarcDCase et al for a fantastic conference!

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@belindaarch

3 years

An honor to participate on a panel with @SandyDarity discussing race in economic research and on a program with @TrevonDLogan on excellent, important work with @drlisadcook and others on the Green Books.Thanks to organizers @AbigailWozniak @OIGInstitute and looking forward to it!

Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute

@OIGInstitute

3 years

Join us 10/15 for the Institute's fall research conference. The keynote panel, "Race in Economic Research: From One Dimension to Many," will look at how researchers can enrich and expand their study of questions related to race in economics.

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@belindaarch

4 years

To all our Black students, as I tell my students (and myself) regularly, you are excellent, you are fantastic and that is why you are in that prestigious Econ/Ivy/program etc. And to quote one of my favorite movies, 'anyone who tells you differently is selling something'

Dr. Nathaniel C. Burke

@NathanBurkeEcon

4 years

I'm going to go ahead and say it: Being Black and in grad school is rough. People question your "Blackness" Everyone assumes you are an undergrad. People assume you made it because of affirmative action No one looks like you #AcademicTwitter #BlackTwitter #EconTwitter

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2 years

In time for the end of COP27 (+ ~ Twitter?),happy to share our paper on“Climate Change, Epidemics and Inequality”/new go-to citation on the links between climate, epidemics and inequality is conditionally accepted at the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy @ReepAere 1/n

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@belindaarch

3 years

It was great presenting our paper with @fannan2316 on the effects of negative news on vaccine compliance at the LACDev conference @oberlincollege . Thanks to @epkresch for helpful comments and for organizing a fantastic conference as well- was so nice to see everyone in person

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@belindaarch

2 years

I will be presenting and discussing research at 4 excellent sessions on policy interventions to close gender gaps in labor markets, environmental justice, labor coercion, and labor markets in Africa- all topics I work on, so looking forward to excellent sessions @ASSAMeeting

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@belindaarch

2 years

This is brilliant, fantastic news! Congratulations @drlisadcook !! 😊🥳

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

2 years

The economist Lisa Cook was confirmed as the first Black woman on the Federal Reserve Board in a historic moment for the central bank as it tries to stabilize a recovery that serves all Americans.

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4 years

Between anti-Black racism in the justice/policing system and COVID, it’s been a long, exhausting year+ in the US.Ahead of the elections, just going to re-up this paper from Ebonya Washington and @ikuziemko and hope no one ever mentions the words"economic anxiety"to me ever again

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@belindaarch

3 years

Retweeting this thread because the ongoing discussions on #Econtwitter drives home the importance of considering general equilibrium effects of `x', e.g.`colonial development infrastructure'. Especially if your infrastructure was built with forced incarcerated labor @nonso2

Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

4 years

I want to share a new(ish) paper with @nonso2 on prison labor and police that was accepted for presentation at the @nberpubs DAE SI and took over 2 years of archival data collection: But before the results, some background on why we wrote this paper: 1/n

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Just watched @SandyDarity and Kirsten Mullen's excellent presentation on @AJEnglish on the impacts of the legacy of slavery on Black people/the racial wealth gap in the US and the case for reparations. Have a Triumphant Black History Month all.

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@belindaarch

3 years

Happy to see years of research labor on epidemics and African development forthcoming/under review. Will re-up some research threads on forthcoming Journal of Economic Perspectives and @PNASNews papers shortly. In the meantime, papers found here:

Belinda Archibong - Research

PUBLICATIONS Archibong, B. & Obikili, N., “Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration” (Original, January, 2018). NBER Working paper here. CDEP-CGEG Working Paper No....

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@belindaarch

3 years

Huge congratulations to Ebonya Washington @YaleEconomics who is both an absolutely brilliant economist and scholar and one of the most supportive mentors of junior scholars in the profession. She's such an inspiration and this is absolutely well deserved

Dr. Sandile Hlatshwayo

@femme_economics

3 years

Congratulations to Ebonya Washington, Professor of Economics at @YaleEconomics and ardent supporter of inclusion in the discipline!!

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3 years

This has been true longer than since @gchelwa tackled 'Economics' Africa problem' in his fantastic, groundbreaking 2015 article 'Economics has an Africa problem': Now published in Economy and Society here: . A must-read for everyone

Does economics have an ‘Africa problem’?

There has been increasing interest on the apparent underrepresentation of African-based scholars in economics scholarship on Africa. Much of this debate, however, proceeds with little by way of evi...

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Justin Sandefur

@JustinSandefur

3 years

Ouch. Development economics, ostensibly dedicated to improving the well-being of people in developing countries, is almost devoid of people based in those countries. - JDE editors: 2 of 69 - JPAL affiliates: 5% - ABCDE presenters: 7% - RCT authors: <10%

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@belindaarch

4 years

Our research on the impacts of climate change on gender inequality was just profiled in @AJEnglish : Thanks to @abbyhiggins for an excellent write-up

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@belindaarch

4 years

1. Long-run development papers often focus on the positive development effects of colonial infrastructure without interrogating their costs for African populations so it comes off like they’re saying "colonialism was good for Africa”… 1/n

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3 years

It's been a tough past year and in between the tenure-track life of no sleep trying to publish research/teach/service, it's gestures like these from students that truly make my day (tldr, my students are awesome and fantastic people 😊) Making this cup my wallpaper 😂

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@belindaarch

3 years

Calling it- Living Single (esp early seasons) is one of the best tv shows of all time. Every character is excellent, relatable and well written + meaningful discussions about race and gender, unlike another show about friends that will not be named...Great writing breaks tv

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@belindaarch

2 years

Resurfacing from my R&R + referee work to remind fellow econ folks working on African economic history/long-run development papers to please (1)Carefully cite the historical literature (2)Cite African scholars that have written extensively on the topic of interest #econtwitter

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Some thought-provoking insights from Congolese journalists and youth on neocolonialism, the "white ("savior") gaze" in the production of African images/stories and what it means to be an African engaged in Western aid spaces:Stop Filming Us via @AJEnglish

Stop Filming Us

A cinematic dialogue between Western perceptions and the Congolese experience of reality.

www.aljazeera.com

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We found similar patterns on gender bias in our descriptive paper (experiment ongoing) using evidence from online labor markets in Nigeria- hiring managers matter a lot and one interesting result was on the washing out of effects for qualified co-ethnic women

Dr. Trevon D Logan

@TrevonDLogan

3 years

I need more Econs (especially labor/applied folks) to read and cite this paper. Don't worry, it has a "causal/experimental estimate! And qual work on the mechanisms! "The Mark of a Woman’s Record: Gender and Academic Performance in Hiring" (Quadlin 2018)

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Excerpt from forthcoming JPE paper on "Demographics and Entrepreneurship" from Liang, Wang and Lazear: "When older workers occupy key positions, they block younger workers from acquiring skills."

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Seeing the most opulent churches amidst even the poorest areas in Nigeria really drives home the fact that much of Africa is severely lacking in social protection. Churches are economic behemoths in SSA yet little work in econ on them. Reason I love @amma_panin 's paper so much:

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Excited to present this paper at the NBER DAE SI meeting today at 2pm ET. It's been a really great lineup among a wonderfully supportive group of economic historians and looking forward to further feedback and comments as well. Livestream links here:

Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

4 years

I want to share a new(ish) paper with @nonso2 on prison labor and police that was accepted for presentation at the @nberpubs DAE SI and took over 2 years of archival data collection: But before the results, some background on why we wrote this paper: 1/n

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3 years

I need this as a series- We can call it 'African women explorers discovering heretofore unknown geographical features in Europe'

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@belindaarch

4 years

Just received really great news that our research @fannan2316 @ucheekhator on epidemics just won the @NAREA_Economics young scholar award. Looking forward to presenting on the COVID-19 panel at 1pm ET and do join us if you're able: #NAREA2020

Sarah Jacobson

@SarahJacobsonEc

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We started with a welcome by Dave Abler & awards announcements; among others, we learned that @belindaarch from @BarnardCollege won a young scholar award for her work on pandemics!

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Belinda Archibong

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3 years

Teaching Marx in my history of economic thought course this week and the chapters on class struggle, exploitation and primitive vs capitalist accumulation in Capital are some of my favorite pieces of early economic writing #EconTwitter

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4 years

We’ll be presenting 3 papers (with excellent co-authors @ucheekhator , @fannan2316 ) on epidemics at the @ASSAMeeting this week (fingers crossed for stable internet access in Lagos). Stop by our panels for a great set of new research on epidemics. Comments welcome and appreciated.

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Great to be featured as part of a group of excellent economists! Thanks to @rodrikdani @IEA_economics for inviting me to share some of my story/research. Very interesting interviews with the past featured folks @EmilioDepetrisC @lydia_assouad et al here:

International Economic Association IEA

@IEA_economics

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FEATURED ECONOMIST, February 2023 Belinda Archibong. @belindaarch research areas include development economics, political economy, economic history and environmental economics with an African regional focus. Read more:

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1. Literature on stereotype threat, and a related literature on identity economics suggests that identity can affect economic outcomes. One study showed that priming relatively lower social class/status students with their identity reduced their performance on cognitive tasks

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@belindaarch

3 years

Here is my mini announcement to encourage fellow econ folks to use the @NASA NASA MERRA-2 dataset for climate/weather analysis. Really nice dataset and, to my knowledge, reanalysis data is viewed as gold standard for climate data among climatologists as well #EconTwitter

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3 years

@JustinSandefur Yup, mentioned elsewhere, but @gchelwa highlighted this exact point in his fantastic article on 'economics' Africa problem' in 2015. And if I recall, he got a lot of pushback from multiple `developed-country' based scholars for simply pointing this out...:

Economics has an Africa problem

There is an established tradition in Economics of talking about Africa from afar, western scholars leading the discussion.

africasacountry.com

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Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

3 years

Happy independence/liberation from British colonialism day!🇳🇬 For, imo, possibly the best analysis of the psychology of colonization + racism, I highly recommend Frantz Fanon’s "The Wretched of the Earth". One of my favorite books and one I think about/reread often

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3 years

And for those who view immigrants purely instrumentally....see the excellent AEJ-Policy paper from @econoshih et al on the human capital benefits of DACA: Halting DACA is really just being unconscionably cruel to these vulnerable young people

Belinda Archibong

@belindaarch

3 years

The way the US toys with the lives of its young immigrants is simply unconscionable and frankly unnecessarily cruel:

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Happy to announce that my paper on the role of historical institutions on current access to public services in Nigeria has now been published at World Development. Thanks to colleagues @barnardecon and @WorldDevJournal for very helpful comments:

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Favorite newer research in economic history, following pioneering work on reparations by scholars like @SandyDarity , is the accounting exercise on the costs of European colonialism in Africa, re lower-bound estimates. @nonso2 and I are working on some research so stay tuned...

Devika Dutt

@devikadutt

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The fear is that if colonisers actually had to pay reparations for the colonial loot and compensation for many genocides, rich countries today would no longer be rich. Makes you wonder how they got rich in the first place? 🤔

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Someone mentioned that I didn't mention that John Legend was in the photo, so posting again to mention that yes, he was indeed at the @BrookingsInst event, and yes, it was very cool to meet him :D

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Really excellent discussion on racial inclusion in Economics moderated by @drlisadcook ongoing at the #PennRaceAndEcon conference. With @MackenzieAlsto4 , Modibe Sidibe, and Kory Kantenga

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Don't know what it feel likes to do research that doesn't feel personal as an African doing work on"development".My research days involve fuming about injustice while coding in R. Sending solidarity to our colleagues dealing with this on top of the usual academia stuff daily 1/n

Devika Dutt

@devikadutt

3 years

Really sad and shameful. When economists think of people outside the US/Western Europe as data points rather than people, it is not surprising that this would happen. Economists get publications, and data points have their lives potentially changed for the worse (in this case).

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Happy to announce that our 2 flagship papers on health/your new go-to/reference/citation for all areas health in Nigeria are now out in @TheLancet here: and here:

The Lancet Nigeria Commission: investing in health and the future of the nation

Health is central to the development of any country. Nigeria's gross domestic product is the largest in Africa, but its per capita income of about ₦770 000 (US$2000) is low with a highly inequitable...

www.thelancet.com

The Lancet

@TheLancet

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Centralising health in development: A new social contract between citizen & state—with health at the heart of policy—will enable Nigerians & Nigeria to thrive. Our Editorial for the Lancet #NigeriaHealthCommission :

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3. This is where our paper comes in- we digitized 65 years of archival data on prisons and colonial public finance in Nigeria to show that prison labor was an essential part of colonial public works investments and finance 3/n

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Just got back stateside and can officially confirm that Twitter is banned in Nigeria...add that to the restrictions on phone use and there's a significant research project on the political economy of bureaucracy and costs of doing business under weakly democratic regimes here

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Writing a review piece on climate change & epidemics and noticing all the interesting new papers since 2020, so highlighting our research on economics of epidemics again from 2017 on (AER P&P below)- and of course, comments/citations are welcome and appreciated as well 1/2

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@OlufemiOTaiwo And the scientific knowledge comes full circle- I look forward to the conversation on the role of colonial theft of local knowledge in building big pharma in the `West':

Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge,...

Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950

www.amazon.com

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Our policy brief summarizing the results of research with @fannan2316 and @ucheekhator on the role of global governance institutions in mitigating and reversing the negative effects of epidemics is online here: Full paper here:

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@belindaarch

3 years

This is fantastic news! Congratulations @drlisadcook ! 🥳

MSU News

@MSUnews

3 years

MSU economist Lisa Cook has been elected to the board of directors of @ChicagoFed .

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I like this thread!-I've been fortunate to meet many good actors in Econ, more than I can list here- adding @TrevonDLogan , @snaidunl , @drlisadcook , @LizAnanat , @MarcellaAlsan , @Econ_Sandy , @lwantchekon , and countless others including off Twitter- E.Washington,J.Fenske,E. Asiedu et al.

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There are good actors in Econ. A few I know who are among the very best: @SandyDarity @WSpriggs @PeterBlairHenry @delong @PikaGoldin @MarthaOlney

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I graduated with my BA in 2010 @Columbia . And every Black professional US person I know in my cohort has at least 1 story like the one below in a work setting. Every single one of us. To truly be anti-racist, actively fight against treating/using our Black colleagues in this way

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