Ryan Edwards
@ryanbedwards.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics and Deputy Director of the Development Policy Centre at the ANU | Research on development, labor, trade, and the environment | Personal account, usual disclaimers
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Export agriculture and rural poverty: Evidence from Indonesian palm oil
This paper measures the impacts of Indonesia’s palm oil export expansion on district poverty and household expenditure from 2002 to 2015. Identificati…
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Two minor updates, friends:
- As of 1 January 2026, I'm an Associate Professor.
- As of today, the first paper I started writing on palm oil, about a decade ago, is in print in the Journal of International Economics.
Read, share, cite. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- As of 1 January 2026, I'm an Associate Professor.
- As of today, the first paper I started writing on palm oil, about a decade ago, is in print in the Journal of International Economics.
Read, share, cite. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Two minor updates, friends:
- As of 1 January 2026, I'm an Associate Professor.
- As of today, the first paper I started writing on palm oil, about a decade ago, is in print in the Journal of International Economics.
Read, share, cite. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- As of 1 January 2026, I'm an Associate Professor.
- As of today, the first paper I started writing on palm oil, about a decade ago, is in print in the Journal of International Economics.
Read, share, cite. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Export agriculture and rural poverty: Evidence from Indonesian palm oil
This paper measures the impacts of Indonesia’s palm oil export expansion on district poverty and household expenditure from 2002 to 2015. Identificati…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Two minor updates, friends:
- As of 1 January 2026, I'm an Associate Professor.
- As of today, the first paper I started writing on palm oil, about a decade ago, is in print in the Journal of International Economics.
Read, share, cite. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- As of 1 January 2026, I'm an Associate Professor.
- As of today, the first paper I started writing on palm oil, about a decade ago, is in print in the Journal of International Economics.
Read, share, cite. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Maybe stuffing university board of directors with businesspeople was not a great idea.
March 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Maybe stuffing university board of directors with businesspeople was not a great idea.
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I was one of the USAID officials that the White House called “radical left Marxists who hate America”.
These statements are unmitigated trash. My colleagues sacrificed and risked a lot to serve the America they love. Not one of them had one minute for Marxism.
Just poisonous logorrhea.
These statements are unmitigated trash. My colleagues sacrificed and risked a lot to serve the America they love. Not one of them had one minute for Marxism.
Just poisonous logorrhea.
Stephen Miller: The Department of Education here in Washington, D.C., is overwhelmingly staffed by radical left marxist bureaucrats. Who are in every way hostile to western civilization, hostile to American interests, and hostile to our founding documents and culture.
March 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I was one of the USAID officials that the White House called “radical left Marxists who hate America”.
These statements are unmitigated trash. My colleagues sacrificed and risked a lot to serve the America they love. Not one of them had one minute for Marxism.
Just poisonous logorrhea.
These statements are unmitigated trash. My colleagues sacrificed and risked a lot to serve the America they love. Not one of them had one minute for Marxism.
Just poisonous logorrhea.
Happy late 40th to me
March 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Happy late 40th to me
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In a new @i4replication.bsky.social report we replicate Islam (2019). Main issue: the randomized controlled trial was not randomized. And many other things on top of that. See full report for details. (w/ @carlbonander.bsky.social, @nikljako.bsky.social, @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social, Bensch & Brodeur)
#GDRI_rep Update 4: We have a new report. We reproduced the paper entitled "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes" by Islam @ European Economic Review. See below for links to report and author's response.
March 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
In a new @i4replication.bsky.social report we replicate Islam (2019). Main issue: the randomized controlled trial was not randomized. And many other things on top of that. See full report for details. (w/ @carlbonander.bsky.social, @nikljako.bsky.social, @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social, Bensch & Brodeur)
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This is us. We asked Asad to step aside before we had any results. GDRI was not involved in our data collection (thankfully).
We contacted authors (Emily A. Beam, Joshua D. Merfeld, Naveen Wickremeratne) of this study "Improving Gender Norms in the Workplace" for a replication package. The paper is R&R/First Stage Pre-Results Review @ the Journal of Development Economics. Beam responded: "A few notes...
March 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This is us. We asked Asad to step aside before we had any results. GDRI was not involved in our data collection (thankfully).
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Quite a thread. Vivid demonstration that @i4replication.bsky.social and other mechanisms above individual journals are vital for scientific hygiene
#GDRI_rep Update 3: The paper "Improving Hygiene and Sanitation through Parental Skill Training" by Asadul Islam, Umair Khalil and Tabassum Rahman was conditionally accepted at Economic Development and Cultural Change. We requested a replication package. It has now been withdrawn
March 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Quite a thread. Vivid demonstration that @i4replication.bsky.social and other mechanisms above individual journals are vital for scientific hygiene
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#GDRI_rep Update 4: We have a new report. We reproduced the paper entitled "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes" by Islam @ European Economic Review. See below for links to report and author's response.
March 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
#GDRI_rep Update 4: We have a new report. We reproduced the paper entitled "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes" by Islam @ European Economic Review. See below for links to report and author's response.
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#GDRI_rep Update 2: I4R sent a report to the original authors for the PLOS One article "“Food insecurity and mental health of women during COVID-19: Evidence from a developing country". All authors have now emailed PLOS One to withdraw their names. osf.io/7tzek/
March 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
#GDRI_rep Update 2: I4R sent a report to the original authors for the PLOS One article "“Food insecurity and mental health of women during COVID-19: Evidence from a developing country". All authors have now emailed PLOS One to withdraw their names. osf.io/7tzek/
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We have a new report out about the #GDRI_rep. The paper has not been retracted but all three authors have withdrawn their names.
#GDRI_rep Update 2: I4R sent a report to the original authors for the PLOS One article "“Food insecurity and mental health of women during COVID-19: Evidence from a developing country". All authors have now emailed PLOS One to withdraw their names. osf.io/7tzek/
March 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
We have a new report out about the #GDRI_rep. The paper has not been retracted but all three authors have withdrawn their names.
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Cool new paper by @eduardomontero.bsky.social and JD Denton-Schneider...
Eliminating Chagas disease in Brazil raised income by 11%! Larger gains for non-whites, reducing racial inequality. Public health interventions can address both development and inequality...
www.nber.org/papers/w3351...
Eliminating Chagas disease in Brazil raised income by 11%! Larger gains for non-whites, reducing racial inequality. Public health interventions can address both development and inequality...
www.nber.org/papers/w3351...
Disease, Disparities, and Development: Evidence from Chagas Disease Control in Brazil
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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March 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Cool new paper by @eduardomontero.bsky.social and JD Denton-Schneider...
Eliminating Chagas disease in Brazil raised income by 11%! Larger gains for non-whites, reducing racial inequality. Public health interventions can address both development and inequality...
www.nber.org/papers/w3351...
Eliminating Chagas disease in Brazil raised income by 11%! Larger gains for non-whites, reducing racial inequality. Public health interventions can address both development and inequality...
www.nber.org/papers/w3351...
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We will provide another update and release two or three reports shortly. See osf.io/23x64/ for more information. And our original thread here: bsky.app/profile/i4re...
After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵
March 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
We will provide another update and release two or three reports shortly. See osf.io/23x64/ for more information. And our original thread here: bsky.app/profile/i4re...
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I also personally sent a link to this thread to the university's Research Integrity office the next day, and I later sent links to two replication reports along with I4R contact details. The University processes currently underway are described here: publicpolicydms.monash.edu/Monash/docum...
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March 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I also personally sent a link to this thread to the university's Research Integrity office the next day, and I later sent links to two replication reports along with I4R contact details. The University processes currently underway are described here: publicpolicydms.monash.edu/Monash/docum...
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#GDRI_rep Update 1: I4R are now reproducing all published papers that use data from GDRI, or are closely related in other ways. Here is a first update on our work. 🧵
March 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
#GDRI_rep Update 1: I4R are now reproducing all published papers that use data from GDRI, or are closely related in other ways. Here is a first update on our work. 🧵
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I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.
February 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.
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February 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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How to write your abstracts in empirical micro:
I was reading draft papers & found that authors omitted the method in the abstract or buried their results summary pages into the intro.
There are lots of ways to write abstracts/intros, but here are common structures in econ.
www.cgdev.org/blog/how-wri...
www.cgdev.org/blog/how-wri...
There are lots of ways to write abstracts/intros, but here are common structures in econ.
www.cgdev.org/blog/how-wri...
www.cgdev.org/blog/how-wri...
How To Write the Abstract of Your Development Economics Paper
Last year, I claimed that you win or lose readers with the introduction of your economics paper. That might have been generous. A lot of people will read no further than the abstract of your paper to ...
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February 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
How to write your abstracts in empirical micro:
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Wild stuff. How come no one thought of this
February 26, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Wild stuff. How come no one thought of this
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After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics
We use a rigorous three-stage many-analysts design to assess how different researcher decisions—specifically data cleaning, research design, and the interpretat
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February 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Said it before but bumping because it took me longer than I hoped it would to find to add to my course page for my students: @pmichaillat.bsky.social 's templates are just beautiful, and a wonderful thing to share on his page
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Design
Minimalist design templates for academic papers, academic presentations, academic websites, and scientific figures. Built with LaTeX, Hugo, and MATLAB.
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February 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Said it before but bumping because it took me longer than I hoped it would to find to add to my course page for my students: @pmichaillat.bsky.social 's templates are just beautiful, and a wonderful thing to share on his page
pascalmichaillat.org/design/
pascalmichaillat.org/design/
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I'm so thrilled to share that I'll be starting as Associate Professor in the Economics department at Macquarie University's Business School in May. Excited for this next step and very much looking forward to getting to know my new colleagues 😊
February 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm so thrilled to share that I'll be starting as Associate Professor in the Economics department at Macquarie University's Business School in May. Excited for this next step and very much looking forward to getting to know my new colleagues 😊
This makes me very happy. Huge win for both parties
I'm so thrilled to share that I'll be starting as Associate Professor in the Economics department at Macquarie University's Business School in May. Excited for this next step and very much looking forward to getting to know my new colleagues 😊
February 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This makes me very happy. Huge win for both parties