Soham Sahoo
@sohamsahoo.bsky.social
Researcher in Economics and Public Policy. Currently Associate Professor at IIM Bangalore.
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/sohamsahoo
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/sohamsahoo
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If you were one of many who thought that ’DEI’ constraints on speech were too annoying and intrusive, consider the new alternative purges. Remove books by Einstein, MLK—it’s all about free speech, apparently.
Hegseth's office ordered the U.S. Naval Academy to review all 590,000 books in its library for content at odds with an executive order banning “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools, even though it is a college. MLK, Einstein books already identified for removal www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions
The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 6:10 AM
If you were one of many who thought that ’DEI’ constraints on speech were too annoying and intrusive, consider the new alternative purges. Remove books by Einstein, MLK—it’s all about free speech, apparently.
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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 ...
www.cgdev.org
February 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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...
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Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs.
DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday
He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.
www.npr.org
February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs.
DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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🚨 CfP: 5th Discrimination & Diversity Workshop, 2-3 Jun '25
Keynotes by Alexander Cappelen & Claudia Olivetti, Sessions on LGBTQ+ (chaired by Billur Aksoy), Gender (Pamela Campa), AI (Andreas Leibbrandt), Environment (Katrin Millock) and Migration (@jeromevalette.bsky.social)
Deadline: 17 Mar '25
Keynotes by Alexander Cappelen & Claudia Olivetti, Sessions on LGBTQ+ (chaired by Billur Aksoy), Gender (Pamela Campa), AI (Andreas Leibbrandt), Environment (Katrin Millock) and Migration (@jeromevalette.bsky.social)
Deadline: 17 Mar '25
November 27, 2024 at 9:25 AM
🚨 CfP: 5th Discrimination & Diversity Workshop, 2-3 Jun '25
Keynotes by Alexander Cappelen & Claudia Olivetti, Sessions on LGBTQ+ (chaired by Billur Aksoy), Gender (Pamela Campa), AI (Andreas Leibbrandt), Environment (Katrin Millock) and Migration (@jeromevalette.bsky.social)
Deadline: 17 Mar '25
Keynotes by Alexander Cappelen & Claudia Olivetti, Sessions on LGBTQ+ (chaired by Billur Aksoy), Gender (Pamela Campa), AI (Andreas Leibbrandt), Environment (Katrin Millock) and Migration (@jeromevalette.bsky.social)
Deadline: 17 Mar '25