Duncan Webb
I'm a PhD student at the Paris School of Economics and a Global Priorities Fellow supported by the Forethought Foundation. I am a development economist who uses tools and ideas from behavioural economics. My current projects focus on discrimination, norms, and stigma.
I am on the job market this year (2023/24).
I spent 2022-23 as a visiting scholar at MIT, and 2021 at UC Berkeley.
📚 CV
Research
Job market paper
Silence to Solidarity: Using Group Dynamics to Reduce Anti-Transgender Discrimination in India
Coverage: [VoxTalks Economics] [Ideas of India]
Publications and accepted articles
Coverage: [VoxTalks Economics] [Ideas of India]
Publications and accepted articles
Critical Periods in Cognitive and Socioemotional Development: Evidence from Weather Shocks in Indonesia
(Conditionally Accepted, 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
Policy projects
COVID-19 spread, detection, and dynamics in Bogota, Colombia
Nature Communications, 2021
with Rachid Laajaj et al.
Coverage: [Blu] [Caracol] [Caracol 2] [Nuevo Siglo]
Understanding how socioeconomic inequalities drive inequalities in COVID-19 infections
Scientific Reports, 2022
with Rachid Laajaj et al.
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.