Tanu Kumar
@tanukumar.com
Int’l development
www.tanukumar.com
www.tanukumar.com
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How can housing subsidies change the trajectory of beneficiaries’ lives?
CEGA faculty affiliate @tanukumar.com’s new book explores how subsidized home ownership in India shapes beneficiaries’ economic, social, and political behavior.
Learn more: go.cega.org/buildingsocialmobility
CEGA faculty affiliate @tanukumar.com’s new book explores how subsidized home ownership in India shapes beneficiaries’ economic, social, and political behavior.
Learn more: go.cega.org/buildingsocialmobility
Building Social Mobility
Cambridge Core - South Asian Government, Politics and Policy - Building Social Mobility
go.cega.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
How can housing subsidies change the trajectory of beneficiaries’ lives?
CEGA faculty affiliate @tanukumar.com’s new book explores how subsidized home ownership in India shapes beneficiaries’ economic, social, and political behavior.
Learn more: go.cega.org/buildingsocialmobility
CEGA faculty affiliate @tanukumar.com’s new book explores how subsidized home ownership in India shapes beneficiaries’ economic, social, and political behavior.
Learn more: go.cega.org/buildingsocialmobility
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"... shows how a different form of public policy-subsidized home ownership-can transform poor people's lives by bolstering not just wealth but also agency and civic participation."
'Building Social Mobility' by @tanukumar.com.
Coming Soon - 📚 cup.org/3Hu4o9k 📚
'Building Social Mobility' by @tanukumar.com.
Coming Soon - 📚 cup.org/3Hu4o9k 📚
August 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
"... shows how a different form of public policy-subsidized home ownership-can transform poor people's lives by bolstering not just wealth but also agency and civic participation."
'Building Social Mobility' by @tanukumar.com.
Coming Soon - 📚 cup.org/3Hu4o9k 📚
'Building Social Mobility' by @tanukumar.com.
Coming Soon - 📚 cup.org/3Hu4o9k 📚
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The new paper from Adam Auerbach & @tanukumar.com, challenges the conventional understanding of urban peripheries as neglected zones & demonstrates them as crucial sites of negotiation, innovation & contestation. Indeed, future of urban India can't be shaped just in city centres but at their edges.
Politics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India’s Cities
ABSTRACT Some privately developed neighborhoods on the outskirts of India’s cities are formalized by urban authorities while others are not. What explains this uneven formalization and what are its...
doi.org
July 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The new paper from Adam Auerbach & @tanukumar.com, challenges the conventional understanding of urban peripheries as neglected zones & demonstrates them as crucial sites of negotiation, innovation & contestation. Indeed, future of urban India can't be shaped just in city centres but at their edges.
Sure many academic books are padded articles but also
May 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Sure many academic books are padded articles but also
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Really grateful to be receiving McCourt's Tech & Public Policy grant---with @tanukumar.com and @gabikw.bsky.social---to study how citizen-generated information influences civic action for governance in India! Other fantastic projects funded here:
mccourt.georgetown.edu/news/tech-pu...
mccourt.georgetown.edu/news/tech-pu...
Tech & Public Policy program awards $1.5M in grants to 24 Georgetown researchers - McCourt School of Public Policy
Tech & Public Policy program awards $1.5M in grants to support research in AI, digital governance and ethics of emerging technologies.
mccourt.georgetown.edu
April 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Really grateful to be receiving McCourt's Tech & Public Policy grant---with @tanukumar.com and @gabikw.bsky.social---to study how citizen-generated information influences civic action for governance in India! Other fantastic projects funded here:
mccourt.georgetown.edu/news/tech-pu...
mccourt.georgetown.edu/news/tech-pu...
I'll be starting at the World Bank as a Governance Specialist in the Public Institutions and Data Analytics Unit in May. Excited to work with a great team on important work, and to be back in my hometown is a dream. Thanks to everyone at CGU for all you've taught me.
March 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I'll be starting at the World Bank as a Governance Specialist in the Public Institutions and Data Analytics Unit in May. Excited to work with a great team on important work, and to be back in my hometown is a dream. Thanks to everyone at CGU for all you've taught me.
My book, Building Social Mobility is available for preorder! shorturl.at/jlgQv
January 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My book, Building Social Mobility is available for preorder! shorturl.at/jlgQv
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In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
December 31, 2024 at 2:41 PM
In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
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"We are attempting to survive our time, so we may live into yours."
July 14, 2024 at 3:30 AM
"We are attempting to survive our time, so we may live into yours."
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You know it’s bad when even Trump is pity posting through it 💀
December 18, 2024 at 11:05 PM
You know it’s bad when even Trump is pity posting through it 💀
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How can citizens drive accountability in resource-strained bureaucracies? 🌍 GLD Policy Brief No.26 explores how community efforts, empathy, and mobilization improve service delivery in rural India. Read the brief to learn more! bit.ly/4feVFm1
By Gabi Kruks-Wisner, @tanukumar.com, Jessica Mayberry.
By Gabi Kruks-Wisner, @tanukumar.com, Jessica Mayberry.
December 9, 2024 at 1:50 PM
How can citizens drive accountability in resource-strained bureaucracies? 🌍 GLD Policy Brief No.26 explores how community efforts, empathy, and mobilization improve service delivery in rural India. Read the brief to learn more! bit.ly/4feVFm1
By Gabi Kruks-Wisner, @tanukumar.com, Jessica Mayberry.
By Gabi Kruks-Wisner, @tanukumar.com, Jessica Mayberry.
Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets.
Interstellar
Michael Kaine
Interstellar
Michael Kaine
Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets.
Taxi Driver
Only keep DeNiro as Travis Bickle
Taxi Driver
Only keep DeNiro as Travis Bickle
Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets.
Full Metal Jacket
Only keep Cowboy
Full Metal Jacket
Only keep Cowboy
December 5, 2024 at 5:17 AM
Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets.
Interstellar
Michael Kaine
Interstellar
Michael Kaine
Policy brief on my work with Gabi Kruks-Wisner and Video Volunteers on how citizens can demand responsiveness from bureaucrats who are overburdened and not formally accountable to them:
gld.gu.se/en/publicati...
gld.gu.se/en/publicati...
GLD
Why are some communities able to provide secure environments, good education, adequate healthcare, and other factors that promote human development, while others fail to do so?
gld.gu.se
December 2, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Policy brief on my work with Gabi Kruks-Wisner and Video Volunteers on how citizens can demand responsiveness from bureaucrats who are overburdened and not formally accountable to them:
gld.gu.se/en/publicati...
gld.gu.se/en/publicati...
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🎉 Thrilled that my new book, *Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America*, is finally out! 🎉 @cambridgeup.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
A brief summary: 1/n
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
A brief summary: 1/n
November 29, 2024 at 2:00 PM
🎉 Thrilled that my new book, *Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America*, is finally out! 🎉 @cambridgeup.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
A brief summary: 1/n
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
A brief summary: 1/n
Just watched ucla wbb CRUSH South Carolina. Insane!!
November 25, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Just watched ucla wbb CRUSH South Carolina. Insane!!
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You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇.
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November 14, 2024 at 5:45 AM
You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇.
t.co/aJ0SOwyCge
t.co/aJ0SOwyCge
Love how in lotr people are like “be back with the other fighters in two days” and correctly estimate so people are always in time for the war
November 13, 2024 at 4:58 AM
Love how in lotr people are like “be back with the other fighters in two days” and correctly estimate so people are always in time for the war
can someone explain to me how relying on starter packs to discover people to follow is different from pre-twitter forms of information dissemination where it was hard for people not central in networks to be seen?
November 12, 2024 at 5:44 PM
can someone explain to me how relying on starter packs to discover people to follow is different from pre-twitter forms of information dissemination where it was hard for people not central in networks to be seen?
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Great paper showing how flood risk information affects housing choices. Connects well with our finding (w/ Balboni, Waseem: jmboehm.github.io/Pakistan_Flo...) that agents are imperfectly informed about flood risks. Clear evidence that better information can help adaptation to climate risks.
November 11, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Great paper showing how flood risk information affects housing choices. Connects well with our finding (w/ Balboni, Waseem: jmboehm.github.io/Pakistan_Flo...) that agents are imperfectly informed about flood risks. Clear evidence that better information can help adaptation to climate risks.
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Seems important: a policy to remove undocumented migrants reduced not just their employment, but also those of citizens.
My paper w/ @chloeneast.bsky.social, A. Hines, P. Luck & @hnmansour.bsky.social is now published in the Journal of Labor Economics!
We study the labor market effects of Secure Communities, a policy that increased the removals of undocumented immigrants from the U.S. #EconSky
doi.org/10.1086/721152
We study the labor market effects of Secure Communities, a policy that increased the removals of undocumented immigrants from the U.S. #EconSky
doi.org/10.1086/721152
November 10, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Seems important: a policy to remove undocumented migrants reduced not just their employment, but also those of citizens.
Some casual shocking stats on wealth inequality in the US.
Today, bottom 50% holds 2.5 percent of wealth compared to top .1% holding 13.5, top 1% holding almost 30%.
www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...
Today, bottom 50% holds 2.5 percent of wealth compared to top .1% holding 13.5, top 1% holding almost 30%.
www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...
The Fed - Table: Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.
www.federalreserve.gov
November 10, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Some casual shocking stats on wealth inequality in the US.
Today, bottom 50% holds 2.5 percent of wealth compared to top .1% holding 13.5, top 1% holding almost 30%.
www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...
Today, bottom 50% holds 2.5 percent of wealth compared to top .1% holding 13.5, top 1% holding almost 30%.
www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...
which policies build enduring social mobility? My take: those that 1) give beneficiaries a sense of agency and control and 2) not only improve econ. outcomes, but social status as well. Most welfare policies do not do 1, and virtually none do 2. Exception: housing (1/2)
November 8, 2024 at 7:35 PM
which policies build enduring social mobility? My take: those that 1) give beneficiaries a sense of agency and control and 2) not only improve econ. outcomes, but social status as well. Most welfare policies do not do 1, and virtually none do 2. Exception: housing (1/2)