Assistant Professor of Economics, @DukeEcon.
Joined February 2020
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15 Sep 2024
Our new field experiment (w/ @AnujitCh, @hmmlowe, @GarethNellis) shows how brief interactions with multiple outgroup members (broad contact) and longer interactions with a single one (deep contact) shape intergroup relations.
Paper: researchgate.net/publication…
Prejudice is often rooted in misperceptions: that the outgroup are lazy, unpatriotic, etc. Our new field experiment asks: to reduce misperceptions, is it better to become close with one outgroup member (deep contact), or to have brief encounters with many (broad contact)?
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The Confederate diaspora—small but powerful and ideologically intense—reshaped culture across the U.S. through influence, organizational mobilization, and political leverage.
New paper by @SamuelBazzi, @Andreas_Ferrara, Fiszbein, @tpearson_tweets, and Testa:
restud.com/the-confederate-d…
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Jan 16
econ job market candidates who work on india, check out this fully-funded 2-year post-doc from gareth nellis, a friend and former colleague and new director of penn's CASI. a wonderful opportunity, esp in a really tough job market year! deadline feb 2.
casi.sas.upenn.edu/casi-post…
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📢@JEEA_News Excellence in Refereeing Award 2025 announced.
🎉Warm congrats @Angelucci_Ch Arjada Bardhi, Corina Boar, Mary Ann Bronson @ShengmaoCao @LaDelgadoP @tommasojdenti Robert Garlick @arkdevghosh Christina Patterson, Felipe E. Saffie & Carlo Schwarz
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Arkadev Ghosh retweeted
5 Nov 2025
Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: CMFdata.org
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
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2 Nov 2025
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In my JMP, I ask: Why do different kids specialize in different skills?
In the same classroom you have:
– the math whiz
– the leader
– the quiet empath
Is that because they chose different skills to invest in… or because some skills are just harder for them to build?
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22 Oct 2025
New @VoxDev piece on our work (with @prerna394, @hmmlowe & Gareth Nellis) on how youth camps in India helped build social cohesion across religious lines.
Paper in @RevEconStudies: academic.oup.com/restud/adva…
🆕 How youth camps helped build social cohesion in India
Today on VoxDev w/ @arkdevghosh (@DukeEcon), @prerna394 (@ubcVSE), @hmmlowe (@ubcVSE) & Gareth Nellis (@UCSDPoliSci): voxdev.org/topic/institution…
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Arkadev Ghosh retweeted
15 Oct 2025
#EconJobMarket candidate Spreeha Aggarwal’s (@AggarwalSpreeha) job market paper studies how changes in the demand for women’s domestic labour affect their marriage timing and outcomes in rural India. Profile: spreehaaggarwal.com/
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11 Sep 2025
In the latest episode of the @IdeasofIndia @mercatus we kick off the 2025 job market series with Kartik Srivasatva @KSrivastava_ @Kennedy_School. We spoke about his job market paper 'Familiar strangers: Evidence from referral-based hiring experiments in India' and much more.
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22 Aug 2025
*** Meet REStud North American 2025 Tourists! ***
The REStud North American Tour recognizes the most promising graduating doctoral students in economics and finance from European universities, and introduces them and their research to audiences in North America,
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Upward mobility increases with baseline inequality—a sharp contrast to the traditional Great Gatsby story, from Laura Mayoral, Debraj Ray, and @ggenicot nber.org/papers/w34144
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22 Aug 2025
Forthcoming in the AER: "Managers and Public Hospital Performance" by Pablo Muñoz and Cristóbal Otero. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
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22 Aug 2025
My job market paper is done :)
Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India | Journal of Political Economy journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
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4 Aug 2025
Thrilled to continue the young scholar series at the @IdeasofIndia podcast @mercatus, where we invite academic job market candidates working on India to talk about their research. We have a handful of 30-min slots and they fill up within the first few days of announcement.
forms.gle/df73Hfaubu9PzqAK6
To be considered, please use this google form (takes about 5-7 minutes).
The past editions of the series featured fantastic scholars.👇🏾
The 2024 series featured @RollyKapoor, @DeepikaPadmanab, @sukrit_puri, @deepti_sharma8, Steven @BrownstoneEcon, Aarushi Kalra @chidiya_, Abishek Choutagunta @kaapi_croissant, @Kushagr_Bakshi, Atanu Chatterjee @atanu_xahs
The 2023 series featured @rajatkochhar, Vani Swarupa Murali, @KartikeyaBatra, @kumar_rithika, @Vanisha49, @dunc_webb, @i_sarathpillai, @vatsalecon.
The 2022 series featured fantastic scholars like Khushdeep Malhotra, Anoop Jain @Fruit_noops, @aliz_toth, @raamadhok, @mahimavasishth, @BanerjeeShweta, @nish_vats.
The 2021 series featured fantastic scholars like @arkdevghosh, @tiwari_chhavi, Gaurav Mittal @geo_mittal, @bhumipurohit, @AshishKumarSed1, @karsha, @Dr_NehaG, @KaranBabbar19, @KimFeCramer, @ArchanaDang1, @apuravbhatiya, @radhi_jain.
And it all started in 2020 when we featured work by incredible scholars like @vaishnavisur, @RohitTicku, @tanu_kumar1, @RayProma, @VaidehiTandel, Kunal Mangal @mrgunalan.
I answered a few questions related to the job market series last year. Here’s the link x.com/srajagopalan/status/18… (7/7)
12 Aug 2024
I have received some questions about the job market series. Answers below, please RT.
1. We have a handful of spots and try to accommodate as many scholars as we can. There are no real criteria for selection: it should be something I find interesting and can engage with. And if there are too many papers like that, then I will resort to the order in which we received the interest.
2. I read the papers as they are sent and will start reaching out to scholars in the last week of August and record in September. The release will follow our usual schedule through the fall.
3. The Google form is scaring some of you. I used to ask scholars to reach out over email but the volume can be quite high. And I want to make sure you don't slip through the cracks in my inbox. We won't be sharing any of that information in that form publically, so we understand if you only have a tentative title for the job market paper etc. If you are still worried, please email me with the same information requested in the form and mention the IOI job market series in the subject line.
forms.gle/GKKPwb9uRZoJVmg69
Details about the series are in the thread below 👇 It also lists scholars we have featured in previous years.
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"State schools aimed to secularize Indonesia, but religious schools adapted, competing for students and strengthening Islamic identity instead."
Recently accepted to #REStud, from @samuelbazzi, Hilmy and @benjaminmarx:
restud.com/religion-educatio…
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Researcher assumptions shape not just how experiments run—but what questions we ask. Outlining best practices for designing context-aware lab experiments in non-Western settings, from @sararlowes and @DrNathanNunn nber.org/papers/w33981
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23 Jun 2025
Recently accepted to #REStud, "Overconfidence and Prejudice," from Heidhues, Kőszegi and Strack:
restud.com/overconfidence-an…
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Offering an empirical approach to study channels of discrimination in voting, from Amanda de Albuquerque, Frederico Finan, @AnubhavPc, Laura Karpuska, and Francesco Trebbi nber.org/papers/w33859
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23 May 2025
We should celebrate when we find no evidence of in-group bias.
In India, judge in-group bias by gender, religion, & caste is minimal. Just Accepted new paper by @ellliottt, @thesamasher, @AditiBhowmick18, S. Bhupatiraju, D. Chen, @gochristoph, @paulnovosad, @BilalSiddiqi zurl.co/NXXnA
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Recently accepted to #REStud, "Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students’ Human Capital and Economic Outcomes," from Cabral, @bokyung_kim_, @maya_rossin, Schnell and Schwandt:
restud.com/trauma-at-school-…
#Econtwitter #Trauma #HumanCapital #SchoolShooting
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28 Apr 2025
Why are voters and parties so divided on cultural issues? Why do low-income voters support the right? This paper shows that economic change raising the salience of the educational divide can shift voters' social identities, explaining these phenomena. econometricsociety.org/publi…
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