AP Economics at @UCIrvine. Postdoc at @OhioState 2019-2020. @umichECON PhD working on public finance in developing countries. Former @CGDev RA.
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Joined February 2010
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Teju Velayudhan retweeted
📢 The new @vox_dev lit review on taxation & development is out! Lots of insights from recent research + outline of open questions for future research & policy experimentation.
For recap of key takeaways, tune in for Anders Jensen's presentation this afternoon at 2pm UK time 📅
🆕 Our #VoxDevLit on Taxation is out now!
Senior Editor Anders Jensen (@Kennedy_School @The_IGC) summarises findings from research on taxation & development + identifies some feasible policy levers that can help strengthen tax processes.
Download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/taxatio…
Teju Velayudhan retweeted
#1 of 2 Embarrassed by your vaccine privilege ? (cgdev.org/blog/why-im-embarr…)
Then check out Go Give One (easy to find) and donate. Tell your friends and family: $5 per dose!
Enough donors could matter as a message to rich country govts.
h/t @louis boorstin @glassmanamanda
Teju Velayudhan retweeted
Earlier this year I wrote about visa applications getting rejected for having inapplicable blanks on them. Thanks to a newly resolved FOIA suit, we now have a better sense of the scale of this policy and its consequences.
They're enormous. (thread)
“Middlename” field left blank because you don't have a middlename? No address for your dad b/c he's dead?
No siblings listed because you’re an only child? Sorry, your immigration applications have all been rejected
USCIS's Kafkaesque "no blanks" policy washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Teju Velayudhan retweeted
The voters have spoken, and they have chosen @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris to be our next president and vice president.
It's a history-making ticket, a repudiation of Trump, and a new page for America.
Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen. Onward, together.
Teju Velayudhan retweeted
👋! Latina reporter here. I have a thread about how we gave our readers a more nuanced understanding of the vote in Florida. For inquiring minds. 1/x
Interesting evidence that taxation --> accountability and political participation.
@jesselyoder examines the role that property ownership plays in motivating participation in local politics. #polisciresearch #APSR
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Teju Velayudhan retweeted
💡 Looking for PhD candidates & young scholars w/ ideas to promote private sector dev in low-income countries!
We are organizing a @PEDL_CEPR workshop to match high-/low-income country scholars + develop ideas together. Pls share and reach out with q’s!
pedl.cepr.org/content/young-…
This story is so shocking and yet unsurprising.
What happens when the World Bank assigns a Cameroonian macroeconomist to cover an Eastern European country?
Sometimes, the country would rather cut off relations with the Bank. Yikes.
brookings.edu/blog/future-de… by @CelestinMonga
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Join this amazing team @CGDev! Interested in emerging markets, financial inclusion and macro-finance?
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#EconTwitter @econ_ra
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Useful compilation of various immigration policy changes in the US post COVID.
We @immcouncil wrote a special report on every major policy change that's happened since the pandemic began, and we'll update it ASAP with this new decision on student visas.
Our report reveals extensive changes across the entire immigration system.
americanimmigrationcouncil.o…
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The Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, a conservative-allied group headed by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, took Covid-19 small business relief funds from the federal government, according to data. btaxgo.com/j8m0YRx
Piling on the uncertainty...
Great new paper showing that consumption taxes may not be as regressive as we think, even on an annual income basis.
Consumption taxes are redistributive in developing countries, lowering inequality by as much as income taxes, driven primarily by differences in informal consumption along the income distribution, from Bachas, Gadenne, and Jensen
nber.org/papers/w27429
This brings back painful memories of times when I have been the "token" woman.
New (awesome) working paper!
"Strength in Numbers: A Field Experiment in Gender,
Influence, and Group Dynamics" by @ProfKarpo, @jrpjrpjrp, & @OlgaStoddard.
brightspotcdn.byu.edu/d4/ed/…
Teju Velayudhan retweeted
TARC Online Mini-Workshop on: COVID-19 and Developing Countries
We invite submissions of research related to this broad topic. Empirical, theoretical, experimental contributions related to tax and tax administration policy challenges welcome. Call for papers below:
Teju Velayudhan retweeted
Kerala, India, is implementing “test, trace, isolate, support,” and it is paying off so far. They are working hard to keep case numbers low. What can we learn from them? A short thread. 1/5
Kerala (population 35 million) was the first state in India to get COVID. Today for the 2nd day in a row they have ZERO new cases! thehindu.com/news/national/c… @nramind @nambath @ramyakannan
How did they do it?
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Teju Velayudhan retweeted
The online public finance seminar series is starting on May 7th at 11am EST on Zoom! We will meet every Thursday at 11am EST for as long as there is demand. Submit your paper, register for a talk and sign up for the mailing list on our website: sites.google.com/view/pfonli…
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#EconTwitter We are excited to bring you Seminar in Applied Microeconomics - Virtual Assembly and Discussion. SAMVAAD is an online platform for scholars in India to present their research. Sign up today! forms.gle/JsXhRoNskxuKQuk59 Details: aadityadar.github.io/samvaad…
cc @sabya_economist
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How many firms become unprofitable due to COVID19/coronavirus shock? What share of the wage bill might be slashed? Pierre Bachas and I discuss how to use tax admin data to simulate scenarios: blogs.worldbank.org/developm…
Great opportunity to get your tax research in South Asia funded! I know there are a lot of folks doing good work already that would benefit from this. Please share widely!
📢New call for #research on #tax & #development in #SouthAsia. We particularly welcome proposals on #equity issues & projects involving #collaboration w tax agencies. Some restrictions atm due to #Covid19 but we offer project preparation grants 👇 #Tax4Dev bit.ly/3aAz03k