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Aarushi Kalra JMP: "Hate in the Time of Algorithms: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Online Behavior" Website: aarushirita.github.io

In the latest episode of Ideas of India Mercatus Center I speak with Aarushi Kalra Aarushi Kalra, a PhD candidate Brown Economics, about the demand and supply of toxicity against minorities on social media , algorithms, user versus platform behavior, and much more. mercatus.org/ideasofindia/a…

Econ Grad Student, Saxena Affiliate and PSTC Trainee Aarushi Kalra ( Aarushi Kalra ) wins best paper award for NEUDC 2024 at Northeastern University. Her paper is entitled " Hate in the Time of Algorithms: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Online Behavior". Congrats!

Aarushi Kalra Brown Economics Elisa Macchi Check out Aarushi's amazing work on toxic social media at aarushirita.github.io/papers/

📢 SHRUG users 📢 We released a significant update to SHRUG last week. Please read on how it might affect you. 🧵 TL;DR: We made corrected shrid boundaries around some urban outgrowths. Only about 500 shrids have changed, but these will cause merge errors. 1/N

Several #Muslim students from a government school in #Delhi have made serious allegations of physical abuse and discrimination by their teachers.  The students of Sarvodaya Bal Vidhyalaya in the #NandNagri area of northeast Delhi wrote their complaints in a letter to Supreme

Female content creators on YouTube received significantly more negative feedback for comparable content. But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand.

We are thrilled to launch our job market paper series blog for 2024-2025. Check our first blog by Aarushi Kalra about AI, regulation, and radicalization econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-so… #jmpblog #jmp #econjmp

Our first job market paper series blog Econ That Matters. Check out Aarushi Kalra JMP blog about super interesting experiment on social media AI, regulation, and radicalization.

Aarushi Kalra experiments with the algorithm for a social media platform in India. Shifting away from an engagement-maximizing algorithm reduces hate speech. But this comes at a substantial cost to the platform in the form of lower engagement. aarushirita.github.io

3rd AI + Econ Workshop in Zurich is a wrap. Ground truth = it was awesome 🤩 🤖 📈

Represented the mothers of Rohith Vemula & Dr. Payal Tadvi in a petition seeking directions from the Supreme Court to set up Equal Opportunity Cells to address caste discrimination on campuses. Court has directed UGC to produce data on the implementation of the 2012 Regulations.

Public good announcement 📢📢 Mapped shrid villages to #LokSabha constituencies Dataset also has 2014 & 2019 results . Minor border errors persist—suggestions welcome! #OpenData #GIS Access it: github.com/TahaIbrahimSid… 1/2

Paul Novosad I would consider them for the JDE. We do not publish comments per se or condition on whether the paper overturns the previous result. We do ask that the paper make it clear why the question is worth reexamining in a different frame or setting, given current knowledge.

This paper has been in the making for so long that eight children across the co-author group were born between the time we started and now! But it is finally out, and you can check it at arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13323

With my four PhD students: Luca, Aarushi, Mercedes, and Jacob!

#Kenya | Footwear used by waste pickers at the Dandora site. Most lacked access to gum boots to protect their feet from exposure to hazardous waste, and had been forced to salvage discarded footwear from the site itself. The severity of their working conditions is compounded by

Congratulations to PhD ’25 grad Aarushi Kalra for winning the Best Paper Award at the Workshop on the Economics of Digitization, co-hosted by UCLouvain, LCII, Telecom Paris, TSE & Uni Warsaw! digital-economics.org

📢We are now taking mentee applications for the Abroad Admission Mentorship Program (AAMP) 2025-26. If you are interested in a Masters or PhD, our program guides Bahujan students through seminars and 1-on-1 mentoring. Deadline: 22nd June Form: forms.gle/XPDQUvYgyqi5Vz…

🚀 Calling all Master's & PhD students abroad! Join our Admission Abroad Mentorship Program (AAMP) as a mentor. Guide mentees through applications, review materials & provide support. Give back & help shape future Bahujan scholars! Form link: forms.gle/LUfET2Stzv2aGX… #Gradschool