The Master of Science in Economics at Ahmedabad University is designed for students who want to engage deeply with questions of the economy and the society using data, computation, and rigorous analysis. The programme combines strong foundations in economic theory with advanced training in statistics, machine learning, and applied data analytics. Graduates are prepared for careers across industry, policy, research, and academia, as well as for doctoral study. Set within an interdisciplinary research university, the programme enables students to learn across economics, data science, computer science, mathematics, finance, public policy, philosophy, social sciences, and management. This reflects how contemporary economic problems are understood and addressed in practice. Know more about Master of Science in Economics programme and apply: bit.ly/4rR4hpy

Here is a new paper that reviews the theoretical and empirical foundations of peer and network effects, aiming to bridge insights from both literatures. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

I am super excited to share a new AI tool, Refine. Refine thoroughly studies research papers like a referee and finds issues with correctness, clarity, and consistency. In my own papers, it regularly catches problems that my coauthors and I missed. 1/

📢Call for Papers #Economics #SERI-D 2026 @SERI_Network, @AhdUniv and #DPWEE invite Doctoral students at Indian universities to the 5th Annual SERI-Doctoral Conference on Mar 6–7, 2026 at @AhdUniv 📅 Submission Deadline: Nov 15, 2025 🔗- rb.gy/qvyhc6

I can confirm that @ben_golub's refine.ink is very, very good. It's eagle-eyed! Spotted discrepancies in a manuscript that unearthed several coding errors

I want to share some inspiring posts about the job market that have helped me during tough times. I hope they can motivate others as well! 1/ From John A.List

Documenting the growth of ChatGPT since its launch in November 2022 and exploring usage patterns by conversation topic and user characteristics, from @RonnieChatterji, @testingham, @ProfDavidDeming, @zhitzig, Christopher Ong, Carl Yan Shan, and Kevin Wadman nber.org/papers/w34255

In data analysis, 99% of the knowledge is generated in the journey — cleaning, testing, validating, exploring. If you outsource this to an LLM (Hi Claude, please clean this dataset and generate me a graph), you will learn little and very often get the wrong answer. 1/

At the Symposium on Network Economics, hosted by IIMB's #EconomicsArea, Prof. Arun Chandrasekhar, Stanford University, delivered a keynote on 'Discovering what belongs in a story', and conducted workshops on methodological foundations of networks. 👉Read: iimb.ac.in/symposium-network…

The Economics area at IIMB will host the Symposium on Network Economics on 28–29 Aug at IIMB. The two-day event will open with a workshop on networks conducted by Prof. Arun Chandrasekhar, Stanford University, followed by the keynote address on Day 2. 👉iimb.ac.in/node/14263

Every year in January, Ahmedabad University hosts the Annual Economics Conference, bringing together economists, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners from across India and the world to share their work, challenge ideas, and explore solutions to real-world problems. The 7th Annual Economics Conference invites you to join this tradition of inquiry and dialogue. If your research asks tough questions, uncovers new patterns, or offers fresh ways of looking at economic and financial systems, this is your stage. Present your work to an audience of peers, policy makers, industry leaders, and fellow researchers. Know more: bit.ly/41sodoc #AhmedabadUniversity

Prediction: the trend of rising co-authors on papers in economics will revert, as AI can automate many tasks in idea generation, data cleaning, writing, robustness checks, etc. More solo authored papers.

Climate change is a growing threat to human health. A new post covers the pathways through which climate change affects health and highlights how evidence-based policies, investing in infrastructure & empowering vulnerable populations can help ⬇️ the risks ideasforindia.in/topics/envi…

Families' wealth in 1427 predicts their wealth in 2011.

Looking forward to presenting our paper "Lessons from the Past: How Experience Reduces the Impact of Weather Shocks on Ugandan Smallholders" (joint with @FabioGSanteramo and @Pep_Maggio) this weekend. If you are also attending, let's meet! :)

#RDDers: check it out. rd2d: Causal Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs "This article introduces the R package rd2d, which implements and extends the methodological results developed in Cattaneo et al. (2025) for boundary discontinuity designs [like geographic RDDs]."