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My research looks at the unique experience of Irish migration to England from the generation who left in the 1950s and 1960s. Itโ€™s been incredible to work with people now
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President Trump built in tax increases beginning in 2021, for nearly everyone but those at the very top. via @NYTOpinion https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/opinion/republicans-biden-taxes.html?referringSource=articleShare ...a stepped tax i
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Since ag twitter is a racist hot mess, this seems like a great time to remind everyone:1) The median farmer is nearly a millionaire! They clock in at $800K net
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HYPERGAMY IN NIGERIAHypergamy is the concept of marrying a person of a higher economic & social class than oneself. Women leaving a guy of equal or lower economic status is
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What kind of development problem is COVID-19? THREAD on crisis, inequality, multi-directional learning, global value chains, digitalisation, debt, climate change & future research agendas for development studiesbased on new @WorldDevJou
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The Enduring Power of the #InverseCareLawQ: Ever read a paper that resonates for days / months / years afterwards? Mine is from @TheLancet 1971. I would love it to become
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You donโ€™t need to be a conspiracy theorists to say wtf is going on when:- the dodgy monopolist & Microsoft founder gets all over the tv at the beginning of
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Fantastic job as always by @emilymbadger and @aliciap at @nytimes @NYTupshot writing about my new paper with Raj Chetty, @nhendren82 , and @michaelstepner about the COVID-19 crisis (1/N)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/upshot/coronavirus-
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(1/n)Political fragility, increased interference of the security agencies & the army establishment in the matters of civilian administration and even #CPEC projects have made #Beijing rethink on the CPECโ€™s outcomes.
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What non verbal message r visuals 4m "farmer's" "protests" conveying?1. Pics & news reports showing (so called) Sikh-Muslim amity r pushing narrative that it's somehow Hindus versus every1 else. If
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Transport Twitter is always full of arguments about how a move away from cars in cities could negatively affect accessibility for disabled people. What I don't see is anyone really
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1/ A thread of things I will read & re-read this weekend, thinking thru the production of the viral underclass w newly published research & who we should reading to
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๐‹๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐š1. The Constitution of India (the very Foundation of our Nationhood)2. Integr
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This is a story about two men with a dreamโ€ฆ CHARLES & DAVID KOCHโ€ฆand that dream was that everyone in the world would own a car, and buy their oilโ€ฆ
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The Scottish Government's attempt at regulating rents has failed utterly - here's a quick explainer: In 2016, after a massive campaign by Living Rent, the Scottish Government introduced "rent pressure
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