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Come work with Anahita Karandikar, Jeff Weaver, and me on a project measuring social norms and discrimination in rural India. We are looking for one India-based full-time Senior Research Associate (SRA) and one full-time Research Associate (RA), starting on or after 1st August 2024.

This is pretty awesome paper and it actually reminds me of the first time I ran a social science experiment. I was 13/14 and in my high school we had an issue with bullying or just bad classroom cohesion — we were a heterogenous bunch in my Gymnasium in Ulm. So what was the idea?

This seems a great paper. One of the worst misinterpretations on contact theory is that any contact with an outgroup foster understanding and reduces bias

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I have been asked why I am so enthusiastic about the Nobel prize given to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (AJR) for their seminal work on the fundamental role of institutions in development while my own research with @ygorodnichenko has shown the role of culture, ..1/

Learning About Outgroups: The Impact of Broad Versus Deep Interactions | Anujit Chakraborty Arkadev Ghosh Matt Lowe Gareth Nellis #econtwitter cesifo.org/en/publication…

Aditi is an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of development, economic history, behavioral economics, and political economy. Her JMP examines how the Green Revolution affected crop diversity, nutrition, and long-term health. Learn more: aditisinghubc.netlify.app

Economists interested in gender norms typically focus on norms that constrain the behaviour of women. But what about those that constrain men? Ieda Matavelli is spearheading this work on masculinity norms, and she is on the job market this year (iedamatavelli.com). A 🧵

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Check out my paper on State Building in a Diverse Society (co-authored with Ruth Carlitz, Ameet Morjaria and Philip Osafo-Kwaako), forthcoming in the Review of Economic Studies: restud.com/state-building…

Forthcoming in the AER: "Cultural Distance and Ethnic Civil Conflict" by Eleonora Guarnieri. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Prof. Arkadev Ghosh discusses how his research bridges the gaps between religions in India in a new piece by Trinity College at Duke . trinity.duke.edu/news/fostering…

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? 🧵

Delighted that our paper has found a home at The Review of Economic Studies!

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…

Recently accepted to #REStud, "Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students’ Human Capital and Economic Outcomes," from Cabral, Bokyung Kim, Maya Rossin-Slater, Schnell and Schwandt: restud.com/trauma-at-scho… #Econtwitter #Trauma #HumanCapital #SchoolShooting

We should celebrate when we find no evidence of in-group bias.

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