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Titir Bhattacharya
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Research Fellow @warwickecon.bsky.social
Health and Environmental Economist
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amritakulka.bsky.social
📢Where and How to Build 1.5 million homes in Britain?
New research report + micro-neighbourhood level mapping tool with @nikdatta.bsky.social uses 20 billion housing searches to map demand
Map wheretobuild.warwick.ac.uk
Research report + 350 customised LA reports: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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kirabojackson.bsky.social
More high-quality evidence that the world is not blind to race... absent intervention, there is not equality of opportunity.

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LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation*
Abstract. We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals’ job networks across the United States using a two-stage field experiment with 400+ f
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March 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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leecrawfurd.bsky.social
Only 1 in 10 high risk toxic sites in the UK have been checked

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Toxic town impact as most high-risk contaminated sites unchecked
BBC investigation finds nine out of ten high-risk contaminated areas have not been tested.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
Stop Musk! Change the law on political donations

On 31st March, MPs will debate the petition that 140,000 of us signed - to stop overseas billionaires polluting our politics: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Make sure your MP attends - email them now:
www.writetothem.com
Poster depicts Elon Musk donating money to Nigel Farage. Text reads 'Stop Musk! Change the law on political donations. Parliamentary debate 31st March - email your MP now!'. Design inspired by the artist John Heartfield.
March 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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voxeu.org
@prashantgarg.bsky.social & @trfetzer.com introduce a methodology that uses #LLMs to process and synthesise tens of thousands of #economics papers into a 'causal knowledge graph', which identifies which economic concepts are linked.
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#EconSky
The flood of new economics research makes it hard for policymakers and researchers to keep up. Traditional keyword searches often fail to capture the nuance of a paper’s causal design or how variables interact. This column introduces a methodology that uses large language models to process and synthesise tens of thousands of economics papers. The authors show how structuring findings into a ‘causal knowledge graph’, which identifies which economic concepts are linked and whether rigorous causal inference methods support these links, has the potential to assist policymakers, researchers, and students in navigating academic research.
February 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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pengzell.bsky.social
294-page working paper anyone? www.iza.org/publications...
Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries
We estimate intergenerational mobility of immigrants and their children in fifteen receiving countries. We document large income gaps for first-genera...
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February 19, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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jamessmithrf.bsky.social
New year, new inflation – CPI picks up to 3.0% in January from 2.5% in December, above BoE and market forecasts. Thread on what is driving this rise – and where this new bout of inflation is headed – to follow…
February 19, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
Ministry of Defence confirms UK special forces blocked resettlement of 2000 Afghans who worked with British forces - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Special Forces blocked 2,000 credible asylum claims from Afghan commandos, MoD confirms
Officers appear to have rejected every application from former Afghan commandos who fought alongside them.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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joshrhodes.bsky.social
So pleased my article on geo-coding addresses of 121 million + people in British censuses 1851-1911 is now out with Historical Methods! #openaccess

- map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address

- link census to other spatial datasets

Get the code and data 👇
Map of London in 1901 showing percentage of people born overseas by street.
January 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM