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Arkadev Ghosh

@arkdevghosh

Assistant Professor of Economics, @DukeEcon.

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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/38…

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)?

hmmlowe's tweet image. 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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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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1/ 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? 🧵👇


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/advance…


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#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

ubcVSE's tweet image. #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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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.

srajagopalan's tweet image. 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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*** 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, 🧵 1/13

RevEconStudies's tweet image. *** 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

nberpubs's tweet image. 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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Forthcoming in the AER: "Managers and Public Hospital Performance" by Pablo Muñoz and Cristóbal Otero. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…


My job market paper is done :) Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India | Journal of Political Economy journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…


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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.…


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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-educa… #EconTwitter

RevEconStudies's tweet image. "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-educa…

#EconTwitter

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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

nberpubs's tweet image. 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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Recently accepted to #REStud, "Overconfidence and Prejudice," from Heidhues, Kőszegi and Strack: restud.com/overconfidence… #econtwitter

RevEconStudies's tweet image. Recently accepted to #REStud, "Overconfidence and Prejudice," from Heidhues, Kőszegi and Strack:

restud.com/overconfidence…

#econtwitter

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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

nberpubs's tweet image. 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

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-scho… #Econtwitter #Trauma #HumanCapital #SchoolShooting

RevEconStudies's tweet image. 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-scho… 

#Econtwitter #Trauma #HumanCapital #SchoolShooting

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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/publications/e…

ecmaEditors's tweet image. 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/publications/e…

Delighted that our paper has found a home at @RevEconStudies!

Recently accepted to #REStud, "Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India," from @arkdevghosh, @prerna394, @hmmlowe and Nellis: restud.com/creating-cohes…

RevEconStudies's tweet image. Recently accepted to #REStud, "Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India," from @arkdevghosh, @prerna394, @hmmlowe and Nellis:

restud.com/creating-cohes…


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The contact hypothesis is a leading theory in social psychology--the idea is that interpersonal contact between groups, under favorable conditions, reduces prejudice. What do we learn from the new wave of pre-registered contact experiments? 🧵

hmmlowe's tweet image. The contact hypothesis is a leading theory in social psychology--the idea is that interpersonal contact between groups, under favorable conditions, reduces prejudice. What do we learn from the new wave of pre-registered contact experiments? 🧵

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