Duncan Webb
I'm a PhD student at the Paris School of Economics and a Global Priorities Fellow supported by the Forethought Foundation. I do research at the intersection of development and behavioural economics.
I'm currently visiting at MIT, and spent a semester in 2021 at UC Berkeley.
📚 CV
Research
Working Papers
Critical Periods in Cognitive and Socioemotional Development: Evidence from Weather Shocks in Indonesia (Conditionally Accepted, The Economic Journal)
Work in Progress
Transforming Harmful Social Norms: The Effect of Reducing Menstrual Stigma on Health Behaviours and Girls’ Education, with Karen Macours and Julieta Vera
A Recall Method for Incentivising Choices and Beliefs, with Evan Friedman and Suanna Oh
Speaking Up For Their Rights: Reducing Anti-Transgender Discrimination in India
Policy projects
COVID-19 spread, detection, and dynamics in Bogota, Colombia
Nature Communications, 2021
with Rachid Laajaj, Camilo De Los Rios, Ignacio Sarmiento-Barbieri, Danilo Aristizabal, Eduardo Behrentz, Raquel Bernal, Giancarlo Buitrago, Zulma Cucunubá, Fernando de la Hoz, Alejandro Gaviria, Luis Jorge Hernández, Leonardo León, Diane Moyano, Elkin Osorio, Andrea Ramírez Varela, Silvia Restrepo, Rodrigo Rodriguez, Norbert Schady, Martha Vives
Coverage: [Blu] [Caracol] [Caracol 2] [Nuevo Siglo]
Understanding how socioeconomic inequalities drive inequalities in COVID-19 infections
Scientific Reports, 2022
with Rachid Laajaj, Danilo Aristizabal, Eduardo Behrentz, Raquel Bernal, Giancarlo Buitrago, Zulma Cucunubá, Fernando de la Hoz, Alejandro Gaviria, Luis Jorge Hernández, Camilo De Los Rios, Andrea Ramírez Varela, Silvia Restrepo, Rodrigo Rodriguez, Norbert Schady, Martha Vives
Coverage: [Espectador] [Blu]
Presented at: Health Secretary of Colombia, Mayor's Office of Bogota
Code
dups - an R package for dealing with duplicates
trackr - an R package that helps you easily track the results of dplyr functions
qval - an R package that helps with multiple hypothesis testing by calculating FDR-adjusted p-values in the style of Anderson (2008)
Bits and Bobs
Effective Altruism - I've written a framework outlining the tradeoff faced when trying to affect the long-run future here.