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Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · 4d

New working paper out: A Century of Language Barriers to Migration in India, with Latika Chaudhary and James Fenske. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 24d

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

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Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Aug 13

I am looking for a specialist in the Akkadian language. It is for a good cause: a friend has a daughter called Ishtar after the Akkadian goddess (Inanna in Sumer). He wants to confirm the graphic symbols in Akkadian for Ištar. (Yes it is for a tattoo, to avoid tattooing "lentil soup" in Akkadian).

Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Jun 25

All this to say that Citizen and Subject is a must read for anyone interested in the economic development and economic history of African countries. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Citizen and Subject

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Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Jun 25

I saw that Mamdani was in the news and initially though "oh! Ugandan political scientist Mahmood Mamdani is in the news!", but then I realized that the Mamdani in the news was Zohran Mamdani, American politician. But then I checked and one is the son of the other

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Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Apr 19

Pinson

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Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Mar 20

The third: it is clearer what the paper is about

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Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Mar 5

#StandUpForScience Les attaques contre la science aux Etats-Unis ont déjà des répercussions sur la science en Europe, et pourraient préfigurer ce qui nous attends. Il y a des événements organisés un peu partout en France 👉https://standupforscience.fr/tous-les-evenements/

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · Mar 1

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

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Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Jan 24

Beautiful pictures! and a brilliant weather. My mum's hometown. Do take the Eggs to the Bastille if you have time, astonishing view. If you have even more time, you can hike down back to town.

Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Jan 20

Thanks! Writing to you in dm!

Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Jan 20

The problem is very common in economic history. I assume it is also common in many other fields. I'd love to see the different approaches people have to tackle the problem. Please RT! Thanks! 3/3

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Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Jan 20

So for example you are working with data for a country, organized in admin units that are slightly different in each year because some units are split, and other are united. Often you can find an aggregation giving ou a consistent map in all time years. 2/3

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Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Jan 20

Dear Bluesky community, I am looking for examples of empirical papers working with data organized in changing geographical admin units in two (or more) time periods and needing to aggregate the data up to consistent geographic units, in order to build panel data. 1/3

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Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Jan 8

Thank you so much for the reference!

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Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Jan 8

Picture a middle aged man waking up one morning in sweat, realizing he knows practically nothing on the history of China before the 20th century. What books should this man read first?

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Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Nov 21

In a similar spirit, though not in metrics, there is the Unjournal @unjournal.bsky.social founded by @daaronr.bsky.social

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Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Oct 19

Such an interesting read!

Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · Oct 18

Here is my extremely brief (potted) history of institutions in macro-development thinking -- just before the AJR intervention. I had most of these thoughts prior to the Nobel week, but now they are crystallising.

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Yannick Dupraz @ydpz.bsky.social · Jun 17

Haha! Yes!

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