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deputy director @devpolicy @anucrawford | ex @dartmouth @stanford @pmc_gov_au | research dev, labor, trade, enviro econ | personal acc, usual disclaimer

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🚨🔥 🥳We’ve recently finished collecting the 1st wave of what we hope will be a helpful panel data resource, which we’ve uncreatively called the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey. Here is a quick thread, as we have just released a report with all the main descriptive findings. 1/N
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This is how we do it right
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When a meeting is cancelled
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Delighted to share some personal AND professional news: we are going home! I've accepted a faculty position @ANUCrawford @devpolicy , and could not be happier. Canberra will be a very different place with two kids, but hopefully not that different.
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Interesting new paper by two up and coming economists on causes of modern inflation
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5 years
🥳 🥳 🥳 After 7 rejections and 12 ref reports from 9 refs, my JMP got a [big] R&R. Long way to go yet, but celebrating the marginal gain. Thank you thank you thank you, most reasonable editor.
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🚨 My job market paper 🚨 measures the distributional impacts of rapid agricultural export growth. The case: Indonesian palm oil. RTs appreciated. \begin{thread}
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5 years
I will running our PhD Econ seminars, and have started putting together a list of others’ tips I like. Link here for now, in case you find any helpful too. Please let me know if I’ve missed anything great!
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👏Don't 👏strategically 👏omit 👏citations 👏you are aware of 👏to 👏play up 👏your 👏contribution, 👏especially when those 👏 citations 👏are from 👏people, countries, and journals at👏 different levels 👏of the👏 perceived 👏discipline 👏hierarchy 👏
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This but unironically
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It’s been a few months since I accidentally stumbled across it (well, a colleague did), and I still can’t believe that a special cruise for people who don’t like @paulkrugman actually exists.
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Today in my dev econ course: global migration, the most interesting topic we don't focus enough on. A thread of awesome recent research 1/n
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Sharing some joy from last week twitter fam
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Borrowing this gif for the first slide of an intro to causal inference class next week
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Gentle reminder: Correlation does NOT mean Causality #Science
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Good morning 😍🎉🥳
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4 years
In the spirt not only sharing the good things but the hard and bad things with you guys: today is my five year wedding anniversary, and one month break up anniversary. In case you were wondering where I've been, and why I'm lurking again, slowly.
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THIS is how you write an abstract
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“Someone is wrong on the internet… …about economics… … in Australia”
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4 years
So @Facebook has a few neat datasets which might be of interest to researchers, especially development economists, including electricity grids (Africa only), population density (most countries), and demographic estimates
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1 year
So our house got broken into last night while everyone was asleep. Our dog (in pic, recent rescue) alerted us to their presence,—waking us to see the flashlight outside our bedroom door—spooking them to run away. Hero. Kids all spooked but glad they didn’t actually see anything.
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Just posted a revised version of my paper "Spillovers from agricultural processing". Comments and suggestions extremely welcome, as I plan to submit it soon.
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🚨🔥New paper 🚨🔥"Causes of Indonesia’s forest fires" just out in @WorldDevJournal , freely available until 1/14. Part of a delightful collaboration w/ Wally Falcon, Roz Naylor & Matt Higgins @Stanford @FoodSecurity_SU . Quick thread on main findings. 1/N
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Woke up to a nomination for my first teaching award @ourANU 🥰😁 Students rule
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But how is this economics
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The financial success of films in different markets is strongly influenced by their alignment with the traditional folklore, ingrained cultural narratives, and core values of each society, from Stelios Michalopoulos and Christopher Rauh
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🚨😊 Job alert! We @devpolicy @ANUCrawford are looking to hire up to two postdocs/research fellows in development economics and/or migration, with a particular focus on the Pacific. Applications due 9 July 2021. Shoot me any questions.
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They randomised whether they let you work from home. Amazing.
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A randomized controlled trial from 2021 shows that hybrid working from home can reduce quit rates by 35%, increase working flexibility, and potentially improve productivity, from @I_Am_NickBloom , @hrbatanu , and James Liang
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@ZoeMcLaren @DavidUbilava @ckrafftc Amanda, Esther, Amy, Anna, .. but yes need to look hard. My first impression was none. What a sad state
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3 years
In a brief celebration of mediocrity, I just hit 200 google scholar cites. Yay. Shout outs to my still unpublished JMP which has the most, and to my most proud project (the fire RCT) which still has none.
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Big morning today with lots of feels. My partner started an awesome job after being out of the workforce for three years, two kids, and one hell of an adventure across the U.S. Couldn't be more proud and grateful.
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Found out my dad kept this for the last 20+ years
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What a great start to the day
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Lovely to finally see "Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans" out in print today in AEJ Applied. Important contribution to the popular "deaths of despair" discussion, and a neat methods contribution. Congrats, Paul, Charlie, and Sam.
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Very proud to share that @dpritadrajati , the first student whose PhD I agreed to chair @ANUCrawford , has just had her first chapter published in Labour Economics! It estimates the labour market impacts of cash transfers in crises. Congrats Prita!
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The @worldbank recently released a new report on water in Indonesia. You can access it here and it covers a lot of issues, but water quality is a huge concern.
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Autumn/fall @ANUCrawford is a bit great, even on a rainy day
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Thrilled to announce that I’m still here in 2021, no small achievement
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Seminar vibes
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cats falling asleep as they look directly at you is the ultimate burn
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YAY. Paper accepted. Non-conventional for economists, we wrote up the fieldwork and desk research behind our field experiment in the hope that its helpful for others and policy makers. It is on decentralization and the environment, focusing on Indonesia. Will share when online.
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One class on migration and development (in origin countries) in a course. What should the reading list for that class be? My best, quick, guess here. Let me know anything super important I've missed
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Today in "actually, economics is great"
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Nïck Brown🌻
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When you ask the authors of articles in Science® to share their data, which the journal told you was mandatory when you submitted your article, the response very often boils down to GFY.
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Globalization: it’s great, actually
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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣
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In the last two decades, the world managed to cut extreme poverty by half - a feat never before achieved in human history - and almost nobody talks about it.
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Must be all them immigrants
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Jim Chalmers MP
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BREAKING: New ABS Wage Price Index data confirms that real wages have fallen by 2.1 per cent over the past year #auspol
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🚨 DATA ALERT 🚨 For the first time ever, a DHS survey from one of 22 Pacific island countries and territories has been made publicly available for researchers, policy analysts, and civil society. The 2016-18 PNG DHS. 1/N
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Can y'all tag your advice and first year grad school takes with something so its easier to block now thanks
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probably hey
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Serious question: how common is serious quantitative causal analysis in the private sector?
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You may have heard about this year's Economics Nobel Prize winners - David Card, Josh Angrist ( @metrics52 ) & Guido Imbens. Their publicly available work has helped us solve tough problems @Twitter , and we're excited to celebrate by sharing how their findings have inspired us.
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Distance is the new rainfall
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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD
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Our new paper on using distance to care as an exposure or instrument and why it often violates all of the causal inference assumptions is now online at @AmJEpi ! Check it out and stay tuned for a tweetorial! cc @elliecaniglia
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Big congratulations to our new @ANUCrawford economics department head assoc prof @burke_ec ! What a wonderful way to end the year
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This discovery is and will probably remain one of the funniest things to happen at work, and that’s a very high bar
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Personal news: can’t bloody wait to see my two kids tomorrow evening. Switch from 2–2-3 days to week on-off is no joke. And this is the longest I’ve been apart from them. Fleur turns 5 soon.
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Happy first birthday to this cheeky one—can’t believe it’s been one year since we were at DHMC in Hanover, teaching while taking care of the 2 year old, cobbling together birth and moving documents. What a year.
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Can happily report that we survived the Hanover-Boston-LA-Sydney-Canberra journey, our first with the two kids. Fleur was so excited she successfully fought off sleep until one hour into the LA-Sydney leg: 4 am in the origin, after leaving at 1130 am. In recovery mode now.
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Just got my first referee request from a top journal outside economics: ten-day deadline. Ten days. As in less than two weeks. I'm jealous of the authors.
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Dear twitter I need a great triple or more difference paper. Any come to mind? Self promotion welcome please thank you
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1 year
Indonesia just graduated to upper middle income, and American Samoa to high income
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📣 The @WorldBank Group’s new country income classifications are out! See which countries changed income categories in 2022. 📈 Explore the #data , including new classification thresholds: 📝 Read our analysis:
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I love that it’s zoom talk on the benefits of face to face interactions
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Centre for Economic Performance
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WEDNESDAY: join us online as David Atkin (MIT) delivers the latest International series seminar - The returns to face-to-face interactions: knowledge spillovers in Silicon Valley. Full series details:
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Good that @AEAjournals are making article access free for a few months. Here are my three favourite articles, by quite the margin, from the last few issues of AEJ: Applied Econ. 1/4
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@ne0liberal Credibility revolution and empiricism
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It has just been brought to my attention that Nathan’s JMP is now R&R at @QJEHarvard Well deserved and congratulations king
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PSA for econs: these days REStat is turning around submissions with three referee reports in just over 3 months, including the holiday break in my case ( @amitabhchandra2 suggested as much on here a while back, thought it might be helpful to some to share)
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Lord also grant me some unambiguous econometric modelling
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The econometric modelling is unambiguous: planning laws are contributing about half of what Australians pay for their homes. 🏡👨‍👩‍👧
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Hey, just hit 3000 followers! Thank you, although I still don't know why you're all here...
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Fascinating new study looks at the effect of immigration on nursing home (which face labor shortages) staffing and care quality in the US. Immigration significant raises staffing, and this in turn has a very positive effect on patient outcomes.
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IV is back baby
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Conner Mullally
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Finally a new paper that says one of our usual applied metrics tools works well, from no less than a new Nobel winner.
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Yay, they accepted my new* paper "Spillovers from agricultural processing" for MIEDC. Pretty excited, it's my first proper venture into the urban/local labor markets/spatial space. Look forward to catching up with loads of you there. *will likely post/tweet paper next week.
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Time for a long-overdue Twitter break. Take care of yourselves, and each other.
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Really neat spatial discontinuity design paper on factor market failures and technology (irrigation) in Uganda, complete with beaut figures
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Hi everyone. We @devpolicy @ANUCrawford are hosting a one-day workshop in June on Pacific migration research---in person and via Zoom if needed---to attempt to bring together the research community interested in this area. Please share. 1/3
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My first @ANUCrawford economics masters research essay student got the highest possible grade (a high distinction) for his term paper on palm oil mills and local forest loss dynamics in Indonesia. Teaching/advising rocks.
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Thrilled to announce my first AER paper
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New policy paper just out. It sketches out and provide some principles around what a better, next phase of Pacific labour mobility might look like. "its time for a new regional compact" @devpolicy @ANUCrawford @UNSWCanberra
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Starting a long (due to layovers) journey home from Indonesia now—a very wonderful, and productive visit, and great to get out to the countryside again. Ate like this a few times. ❤️😍🔥
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Just received an R&R with two very kind, extremely brief referee reports. Meanwhile, I trim a long and critical one back to be as short and constructive as I can, feeling like Satan's spawn.
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That this man had fewer followers than me is criminal, what’s wrong with you all
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Khoa Vu
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Real footage of an econ seminar
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Someone next to me at a cafe is working on PowerPoint slides and it’s killing me not telling them the text is way too damn small, why do you hate your audience?
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🚨🦘Awesome job alert!🚨🦘 The economics department @ANUCrawford is recruiting for a 7-year tenure-track appointment: someone with deep Indian expertise and excellent India papers. We also really need more female faculty. Please share widely. Details: 1/N
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This guy gets it
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Excellent new paper by @dpritadrajati on the link between family size and domestic violence. We were thrilled to support this work though the @devpolicy - @ADBInstitute Pacific Research Partnership call on applied micro of dev last year.
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Reviewing a paper for a general interest non-econ journal where it seems standard in these to pick RHS variables based on statistical significance and the estimation sample based on having the highest prevalence of the outcome, then claim causality. Genuinely confounded.
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job market nightmares, anyone?
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Hyatt atriums are the gothic cathedrals and pyramids of our era, but unlike those earlier structures, you can spend the night and get a drink.
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I’m still on a Twitter break, but have come back to share an exciting thing and some reflections. Reflections first. I missed so many of you! Taking a break made salient what I appreciate here: the community, and keeping up to date with research and the community. 1/N
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Sometimes emigration is met with hostility in sending countries. “Losing workers”, “brain drain”, “dependence”, all terms you hear. In today’s blog I ask: How do migrant sending communities themselves feel about temporary migration schemes and does participation change views? 1/N
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Merry Christmas / happy holidays from the Edwards’ y’all. First one for the girls with two homes, so they get two. I do too. 🥰
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@jhaushofer I’m just thankful these folk don’t edit our journals and decide people’s careers or anything like that
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Amazed that so many Twitter friends don't know who Arthur Lewis is, including some development economists. Was the focus of the first class I took in economic development, and I make a point of making sure every one of my development students knows who he is and his main ideas.
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Sun sets on #ASSA2019 . Was fantastic to share my research with so many new and wonderful people, and find that all you #econtwitter friends are just as nice and inspiring in real life. Looking forward to a long, hopefully relaxing trip home tomorrow. Wishing you all the same
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This now a cat account
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Ok probably going home with a kitten for myself from this shelter
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Canberra friends, we have our first IN-PERSON @ANUCrawford econ seminar for the year next week! The inimitable @etjernst is presenting her new paper: "Media and motivation: The effect of performance pay on writers and content." Register/details here:
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Robots are good for growth, wages, and productivity. Interesting new paper from @CEP_LSE http://t.co/4x9D51EJgg HT @ETatsi
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My undergraduate development economics calendar and reading list for Winter 2018, in case it is helpful or of interest to anyone: (much credit and thanks owed to everyone who taught it before me)
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Having a pretty crummy week, but just reshaped two new datasets correctly on the first try (without looking it up) then merged a bunch of others in with a near-perfect match, so there's that.
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At least 2020 was much better than previous years according to google scholar.
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important work on “diversity-washing” from the US
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