Julia Raifman, ScD

juliaraifman.bsky.social

24 February 2026 15:39

“You don’t have to give up on utilitarianism or cost-effectiveness altogether to recognize these frameworks led economists [Oster] astray on PEPFAR — & probably some other topics too” Thanks @justsand.bsky.social for this important history www.cgdev.org/blog/how-eco...

Ryan Edwards

ryanbedwards.bsky.social

05 January 2026 23:56

The scope of the paper is now much broader than the initial version, but all in good ways (bar the temporal dimension, as there appears to have been a post-2015 shift), and reduces the scope for more papers that just do the same with a different dependent variable. The broad picture works.

Ryan Edwards

ryanbedwards.bsky.social

05 January 2026 21:56

Two minor updates, friends: - As of 1 January 2026, I'm an Associate Professor. - As of today, the first paper I started writing on palm oil, about a decade ago, is in print in the Journal of International Economics. Read, share, cite. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Karthik Sankaran

rajakorman.bsky.social

29 December 2025 20:07

It has happened before. It will happen again. (The interesting debate might be over exactly what mode of capitalism different places are practicing right now).

Matt Collin

mattcollin.bsky.social

29 December 2025 20:06

We should listen to this man, as he has very relevant and quite recent experience in killing lots of people