Shanthi Manian
@shanthim.bsky.social
Development Economist. Assistant Professor, Washington State University + World Bank Economist. Personal account.
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This is such sad news. Michelle White was a very kind and generous mentor to many of us women PhD students at UCSD.
I just heard from the NBER that the UCSD economist Michelle White passed away last week
April 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This is such sad news. Michelle White was a very kind and generous mentor to many of us women PhD students at UCSD.
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Each dot represents 10 people whose lives depend on US foreign aid, just for HIV prevention & treatment.
Without it, 1.6m people could die *per year*.
Without it, 1.6m people could die *per year*.
March 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Each dot represents 10 people whose lives depend on US foreign aid, just for HIV prevention & treatment.
Without it, 1.6m people could die *per year*.
Without it, 1.6m people could die *per year*.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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**New working paper**
How does the under-representation of females in Economics affect the career trajectory of female Ph.D. students?
Sahar Parsa and I look at this in a new working paper by exploring sabbatical leaves taken by female professors at top-50 US Econ departments.
How does the under-representation of females in Economics affect the career trajectory of female Ph.D. students?
Sahar Parsa and I look at this in a new working paper by exploring sabbatical leaves taken by female professors at top-50 US Econ departments.
January 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
**New working paper**
How does the under-representation of females in Economics affect the career trajectory of female Ph.D. students?
Sahar Parsa and I look at this in a new working paper by exploring sabbatical leaves taken by female professors at top-50 US Econ departments.
How does the under-representation of females in Economics affect the career trajectory of female Ph.D. students?
Sahar Parsa and I look at this in a new working paper by exploring sabbatical leaves taken by female professors at top-50 US Econ departments.
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Hi friends! I'm on the hunt for my next stories on the climate & gender beat. If you have any tips please send them my way! (my beat is U.S. focused)
I'm interested in how climate intersects with caregiving and reproductive rights but am broadly open to any story with a gender angle.
I'm interested in how climate intersects with caregiving and reproductive rights but am broadly open to any story with a gender angle.
January 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Hi friends! I'm on the hunt for my next stories on the climate & gender beat. If you have any tips please send them my way! (my beat is U.S. focused)
I'm interested in how climate intersects with caregiving and reproductive rights but am broadly open to any story with a gender angle.
I'm interested in how climate intersects with caregiving and reproductive rights but am broadly open to any story with a gender angle.
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Long-overdue on 2024 recap of cool young researcher! #econtwitter #econsky My favorite part of social media + it's exciting to highlight a year's worth of exciting researchers. (Given cross-platform posting, won't link to the original 🧵s but direct to researcher sites)
January 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Long-overdue on 2024 recap of cool young researcher! #econtwitter #econsky My favorite part of social media + it's exciting to highlight a year's worth of exciting researchers. (Given cross-platform posting, won't link to the original 🧵s but direct to researcher sites)
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It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID
Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.
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January 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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major life update: went to the beach following high tide and found a message in a bottle.
January 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
major life update: went to the beach following high tide and found a message in a bottle.
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News from #ASSA2025: There are only about 30 Black economists who received their PhDs after 2006 in economics departments. The share of economists who are Black has remained at 3% over the last 15+ years. The share of economists who are Hispanic has increased to 6% from 4% over the same timespan.
January 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
News from #ASSA2025: There are only about 30 Black economists who received their PhDs after 2006 in economics departments. The share of economists who are Black has remained at 3% over the last 15+ years. The share of economists who are Hispanic has increased to 6% from 4% over the same timespan.
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I’m coming up on @cnbc.com where I’ll be discussing H5N1 bird flu. This remains a low probability risk but a potentially high impact event we have to take more steps to help mitigate. This includes broadening range of anti viral drugs in the stockpile and developing vaccines specific for this strain
December 30, 2024 at 10:07 PM
I’m coming up on @cnbc.com where I’ll be discussing H5N1 bird flu. This remains a low probability risk but a potentially high impact event we have to take more steps to help mitigate. This includes broadening range of anti viral drugs in the stockpile and developing vaccines specific for this strain
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Carter used the power of his post presidency to nearly eradicate guinea worm. There were 3.5 million cases when the Carter Center’s work began in 1986. He said in 2015 that he wanted to see “guinea worm completely eradicated before I die.” There’ve been 7 cases this year. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Jimmy Carter took on the awful Guinea worm when no one else would — and he triumphed
Carter targeted diseases primarily affecting the poor in remote areas — notably "Guinea worm disease." Because of his commitment, case numbers plummeted from 3.6 million a year to just 13 in 2022.
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December 29, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Carter used the power of his post presidency to nearly eradicate guinea worm. There were 3.5 million cases when the Carter Center’s work began in 1986. He said in 2015 that he wanted to see “guinea worm completely eradicated before I die.” There’ve been 7 cases this year. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Final* call for applications for our postdoc position due 1/3/25. I've deliberately made it easy to for you to submit (no LORs**, just a cover letter and writing sample). I'm especially interested in scholars looking to apply novel methods to repro research.
*famous last words
**b/c they're a scam
*famous last words
**b/c they're a scam
Come work with us at the Reproductive Equity Action Lab! We’re taking applications for a postdoctoral research scholar for the 2025-26 school year, with the option to renew up two years in total (extended deadline January 3) 1/
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Students and Trainees At this time, we have no open positions for students. We announce opportunities on our LinkedIn, Instagram, and newsletter. Sign up for the newsletter here. If you are an undergr...
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December 29, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Final* call for applications for our postdoc position due 1/3/25. I've deliberately made it easy to for you to submit (no LORs**, just a cover letter and writing sample). I'm especially interested in scholars looking to apply novel methods to repro research.
*famous last words
**b/c they're a scam
*famous last words
**b/c they're a scam
Wikipedia is an excellent technical resource for difficult math and statistics concepts. I wouldn’t have made it through grad school without it. Well worth my donation money.
December 27, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Wikipedia is an excellent technical resource for difficult math and statistics concepts. I wouldn’t have made it through grad school without it. Well worth my donation money.
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Wikipedia is amazing—a truly great achievement—and we must protect it, especially from the powerful anti-truth forces that seek its degradation.
December 25, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Wikipedia is amazing—a truly great achievement—and we must protect it, especially from the powerful anti-truth forces that seek its degradation.
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🧵Well-intentioned ppl often warn that “it” could happen here—state-mandated violent disruption & dislocation of communities, cultures, & families, particularly concentration camps & deportations.
US schools mostly don’t teach & US culture mostly doesn’t acknowledge that it already has, many times.
US schools mostly don’t teach & US culture mostly doesn’t acknowledge that it already has, many times.
November 13, 2024 at 6:48 PM
🧵Well-intentioned ppl often warn that “it” could happen here—state-mandated violent disruption & dislocation of communities, cultures, & families, particularly concentration camps & deportations.
US schools mostly don’t teach & US culture mostly doesn’t acknowledge that it already has, many times.
US schools mostly don’t teach & US culture mostly doesn’t acknowledge that it already has, many times.
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I had mistakenly thought the Dem-controlled Senate was able to pass all the pediatric cancer provisions that the House GOP cut after Musk's tantrum. But only a small funding extension for an existing program ultimately passed. The more significant other provisions (first four items below) are dead.
December 22, 2024 at 4:38 PM
I had mistakenly thought the Dem-controlled Senate was able to pass all the pediatric cancer provisions that the House GOP cut after Musk's tantrum. But only a small funding extension for an existing program ultimately passed. The more significant other provisions (first four items below) are dead.
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Adrienne Sabety & I are hiring a full-time RA/predoc to work with us on projects using Medicaid data! The position starts 6/2025, at Stanford’s Department of Health Policy. We are only able to hire US citizens / permanent residents.
Please spread the word! Link: www.nber.org/sites/defaul...
Please spread the word! Link: www.nber.org/sites/defaul...
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December 20, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Adrienne Sabety & I are hiring a full-time RA/predoc to work with us on projects using Medicaid data! The position starts 6/2025, at Stanford’s Department of Health Policy. We are only able to hire US citizens / permanent residents.
Please spread the word! Link: www.nber.org/sites/defaul...
Please spread the word! Link: www.nber.org/sites/defaul...
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Really important, impressive paper from my colleague Yuci Chen.
#EconSky
#EconSky
Research being presented at the #ASSA2025 conference shows that migrants escaping drug violence in Mexico stimulate U.S. economies and boost employment rates for U.S.-born workers.
Migrants escaping Mexican drug war stimulate U.S. economies: ASSA research focus
New research studies effects of drug violence in Mexico on Mexican emigration and on U.S. communities, focusing on population, employment and wages. The study shows that migrants escaping the drug…
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December 21, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Really important, impressive paper from my colleague Yuci Chen.
#EconSky
#EconSky
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Deadline TODAY! The Race and Stratification Working Group at NBER will have its annual meeting on Friday, April 4, 2025! Dania Francis, Vicki Bogan, Ellora Derenoncourt and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper BEFORE MIDNIGHT! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...
Submission: Race and Stratification Working Group, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research
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December 19, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Deadline TODAY! The Race and Stratification Working Group at NBER will have its annual meeting on Friday, April 4, 2025! Dania Francis, Vicki Bogan, Ellora Derenoncourt and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper BEFORE MIDNIGHT! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...
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The 2010s were and outstanding time for public facing scholarship. But that probably depended on legacy social media platforms that, by default, served the public function of amplifying scholarship. What is the future for public-facing scholarship when those platforms don't do that? 1/
December 17, 2024 at 6:20 PM
The 2010s were and outstanding time for public facing scholarship. But that probably depended on legacy social media platforms that, by default, served the public function of amplifying scholarship. What is the future for public-facing scholarship when those platforms don't do that? 1/
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Global Collaboration Opportunity: If you are (or know someone) from a country often missed in research, and are interested in a global study on mental health like this one, please write to me! We have many team members in Europe and English-speaking countries, but would love to involve many more!
Well-being is more than happiness and life satisfaction: a multidimensional analysis of 21 countries - Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Background Recent trends on measurement of well-being have elevated the scientific standards and rigor associated with approaches for national and international comparisons of well-being. One major th...
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December 6, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Global Collaboration Opportunity: If you are (or know someone) from a country often missed in research, and are interested in a global study on mental health like this one, please write to me! We have many team members in Europe and English-speaking countries, but would love to involve many more!
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McGill is late to the market, but we finally can post our position. We are looking across all fields. McGill econ is a fun department with an active, lively group of colleagues. Apply (or repost).
EJM - Econ Job Market
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December 11, 2024 at 2:46 AM
McGill is late to the market, but we finally can post our position. We are looking across all fields. McGill econ is a fun department with an active, lively group of colleagues. Apply (or repost).