Jason Kerwin
@jkerwin.bsky.social
Development Economist @ UW. Hawaiʻi born, Stanford alum, Michigan PhD. Views my own. My website: http://jasonkerwin.com
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Jason Kerwin
@jkerwin.bsky.social
· Jun 3
Last Thursday I gave this quarter's Paul Heyne Seminar. My talk was about why USAID is great for America and also the world, why we should keep it, and how we can make it even better.
A key point is that it is the best brand in the industry, by far.
A key point is that it is the best brand in the industry, by far.
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Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.
#EconSky #AcademicSky
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.
#EconSky #AcademicSky
June 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.
#EconSky #AcademicSky
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.
#EconSky #AcademicSky
Last Thursday I gave this quarter's Paul Heyne Seminar. My talk was about why USAID is great for America and also the world, why we should keep it, and how we can make it even better.
A key point is that it is the best brand in the industry, by far.
A key point is that it is the best brand in the industry, by far.
June 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Last Thursday I gave this quarter's Paul Heyne Seminar. My talk was about why USAID is great for America and also the world, why we should keep it, and how we can make it even better.
A key point is that it is the best brand in the industry, by far.
A key point is that it is the best brand in the industry, by far.
Hey remember when everyone in econ was doing flowcharts (“directed acyclic graphs”) for like three weeks? That was fun.
May 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Hey remember when everyone in econ was doing flowcharts (“directed acyclic graphs”) for like three weeks? That was fun.
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What happened to USAID is now slated to happen to the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC): www.mcc.gov
What I am hearing is consistent with these screenshots! 😤😤😤
The dismantling of US Foreign Aid continues…
What I am hearing is consistent with these screenshots! 😤😤😤
The dismantling of US Foreign Aid continues…
April 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
What happened to USAID is now slated to happen to the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC): www.mcc.gov
What I am hearing is consistent with these screenshots! 😤😤😤
The dismantling of US Foreign Aid continues…
What I am hearing is consistent with these screenshots! 😤😤😤
The dismantling of US Foreign Aid continues…
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The #PAA2025 Karaoke session is no joke! @jkerwin.bsky.social you would have loved this.
April 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The #PAA2025 Karaoke session is no joke! @jkerwin.bsky.social you would have loved this.
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A remedial education program in India worked well when teachers were given strict implementation guidelines. It worked just as well when teachers had discretion to adapt. www.nber.org/papers/w33242 by Beg, @annefitz13.bsky.social, @jkerwin.bsky.social, @profalucas.bsky.social, & @kwrahman.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
A remedial education program in India worked well when teachers were given strict implementation guidelines. It worked just as well when teachers had discretion to adapt. www.nber.org/papers/w33242 by Beg, @annefitz13.bsky.social, @jkerwin.bsky.social, @profalucas.bsky.social, & @kwrahman.com
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There are a lot of interesting details for scholars to explore about basically everything, but for practitioners you get the most value out of the basics:
— Moderates do better at elections
— Free trade makes most people better off
— The past was poorer
— Moderates do better at elections
— Free trade makes most people better off
— The past was poorer
April 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
There are a lot of interesting details for scholars to explore about basically everything, but for practitioners you get the most value out of the basics:
— Moderates do better at elections
— Free trade makes most people better off
— The past was poorer
— Moderates do better at elections
— Free trade makes most people better off
— The past was poorer
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April 6, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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🆕 People think it’s easy to contract HIV. That might not be a good thing.
Today on VoxDev, @jkerwin.bsky.social (@uwnews.bsky.social) discusses how providing information on actual (often lower) HIV transmission rates helped curb risky sexual behaviours in Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Today on VoxDev, @jkerwin.bsky.social (@uwnews.bsky.social) discusses how providing information on actual (often lower) HIV transmission rates helped curb risky sexual behaviours in Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health...
People think it’s easy to contract HIV. That might not be a good thing.
Despite the high HIV prevalence in Malawi, individuals do not seem to adjust their behaviour to avoid infection—this may be due to the perceived transmission risk being so high that people become fata...
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April 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🆕 People think it’s easy to contract HIV. That might not be a good thing.
Today on VoxDev, @jkerwin.bsky.social (@uwnews.bsky.social) discusses how providing information on actual (often lower) HIV transmission rates helped curb risky sexual behaviours in Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Today on VoxDev, @jkerwin.bsky.social (@uwnews.bsky.social) discusses how providing information on actual (often lower) HIV transmission rates helped curb risky sexual behaviours in Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health...
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Here are updated forms for Federal Cuts Tracker Map project, live later this week
🙏🏼 Help share and crowdsource!!!
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🙏🏼 Help share and crowdsource!!!
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Abigail André on LinkedIn: #data #federalgovernment #federalworkers #usaid #noaa #federalcuts #stories | 21 comments
Here are updated forms for Federal Cuts Tracker Map project, live later this week.
If you're new to the project, it is an interactive map that is tracking… | 21 comments on LinkedIn
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March 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Here are updated forms for Federal Cuts Tracker Map project, live later this week
🙏🏼 Help share and crowdsource!!!
www.linkedin.com/posts/abigai...
🙏🏼 Help share and crowdsource!!!
www.linkedin.com/posts/abigai...
All of us owe an enormous debt to the late Susan Watkins, who was the godmother of social science in Malawi. She was an incredible mentor to me. None of this exists without her.
Awesome to be featured back-to-back with these other results. Rebecca Thornton was my advisor and the MDICP (now MLSFH) laid the foundation for basically all social science research in Malawi, including mine. I built on their work in innumerable ways.
April 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
All of us owe an enormous debt to the late Susan Watkins, who was the godmother of social science in Malawi. She was an incredible mentor to me. None of this exists without her.
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In light of recent cuts to global HIV programs like PEPFAR, today on VoxDev, we are featuring not one, but two, research studies on HIV prevention in Malawi—both of which touch on fatalism: the belief that contracting HIV is inevitable, leading individuals to engage in riskier sexual behaviour. 1/3
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
In light of recent cuts to global HIV programs like PEPFAR, today on VoxDev, we are featuring not one, but two, research studies on HIV prevention in Malawi—both of which touch on fatalism: the belief that contracting HIV is inevitable, leading individuals to engage in riskier sexual behaviour. 1/3
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I just heard from someone that used this paper in a class they teach. Yay!
"How Big Are Effect Sizes in International Education Studies?"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
"How Big Are Effect Sizes in International Education Studies?"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
April 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I just heard from someone that used this paper in a class they teach. Yay!
"How Big Are Effect Sizes in International Education Studies?"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
"How Big Are Effect Sizes in International Education Studies?"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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Knicks up by 22, Hawks call timeout to discuss the fact that the other team seems to be scoring a lot more than they are.
April 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Knicks up by 22, Hawks call timeout to discuss the fact that the other team seems to be scoring a lot more than they are.
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I don’t think “academia is extremely left-wing” and “academia is full of people who find Matt Yglesias unacceptably right-wing” are actually competing hypotheses at all.
Yglesias types once felt they had the upper hand in political discourse. Now that others—often unlike them—take up space and tell the truth about their politics, it’s suddenly “academic social science is just ideological.” No, you’re just being challenged.
I absolutely regret my role in this — it turns out that academic social science is shot through with dramatically more ideological bias than I realized 20-15 years ago and all the stuff you guys churn out should come with huge warning labels before it’s presented to laypeople.
March 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I don’t think “academia is extremely left-wing” and “academia is full of people who find Matt Yglesias unacceptably right-wing” are actually competing hypotheses at all.
USAID is an incredible brand and source of soft power. Killing it off would be a disaster for US foreign policy and for millions of the world’s poorest people.
March 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
USAID is an incredible brand and source of soft power. Killing it off would be a disaster for US foreign policy and for millions of the world’s poorest people.
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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
February 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
Your slides should avoid having tons of extra junk on them, but the default Beamer themes make that hard. So I made my own .sty file that fixes all the standard issues and put it on my website for everyone to use:
February 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Your slides should avoid having tons of extra junk on them, but the default Beamer themes make that hard. So I made my own .sty file that fixes all the standard issues and put it on my website for everyone to use:
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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 😊
Are you picking controls for your RCT based on which variables have "significant" differences in your balance table? Don't do that.
February 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Are you picking controls for your RCT based on which variables have "significant" differences in your balance table? Don't do that.
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🚨 Recently, I took a major decision by withdrawing my name from a series of papers on covid that I coauthored. After realizing that several crucial pieces of information about the design had been withheld from me by the team, I decided to withdraw myself,... 1/3
February 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
🚨 Recently, I took a major decision by withdrawing my name from a series of papers on covid that I coauthored. After realizing that several crucial pieces of information about the design had been withheld from me by the team, I decided to withdraw myself,... 1/3
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🚨🚨🚨 Urgent Message to Share WIDELY 🚨🚨🚨
Federal employees that are dismissed as part of the Musk & Trump assault should appeal on the grounds that they were fired for partisan political reasons‼️
➡️ Make an appeal to MSPB following these procedures:
www.mspb.gov/appeals/appe...
💪🏼👊🏼✊🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Federal employees that are dismissed as part of the Musk & Trump assault should appeal on the grounds that they were fired for partisan political reasons‼️
➡️ Make an appeal to MSPB following these procedures:
www.mspb.gov/appeals/appe...
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U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board
MSPB Mission: To protect the Merit System Principles and promote an effective Federal workforce free of Prohibited Personnel Practices.
www.mspb.gov
February 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
🚨🚨🚨 Urgent Message to Share WIDELY 🚨🚨🚨
Federal employees that are dismissed as part of the Musk & Trump assault should appeal on the grounds that they were fired for partisan political reasons‼️
➡️ Make an appeal to MSPB following these procedures:
www.mspb.gov/appeals/appe...
💪🏼👊🏼✊🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Federal employees that are dismissed as part of the Musk & Trump assault should appeal on the grounds that they were fired for partisan political reasons‼️
➡️ Make an appeal to MSPB following these procedures:
www.mspb.gov/appeals/appe...
💪🏼👊🏼✊🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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What can you do about the assault on USAID?
Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
February 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What can you do about the assault on USAID?
Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Here’s one answer to this question—more sample size wouldn’t actually help much in Econ RCTs. I find this surprising!
January 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Here’s one answer to this question—more sample size wouldn’t actually help much in Econ RCTs. I find this surprising!