🆕 Breaking the silence: How can social networks become better safety nets? Today on VoxDev, Ronak Jain Harvard Department of Economics & Vatsal Khandelwal Department of Economics, Oxford outline their research in Delhi on the impacts of correcting inaccurate beliefs about peers: voxdev.org/topic/social-p…

Thrilled to share my VoxDev article with Vatsal Khandelwal! Our study shows how rectifying inaccurate beliefs about peers can catalyze dialogues on financial and mental well-being, and improve socioeconomic outcomes.

Super glad to see our paper featured in VoxDev! We show the powerful effect of high teacher expectations and simple information about past performance on student achievement, especially benefiting students predicted to perform poorly! Minahil A. Vatsal Khandelwal

Now open for applications: Nuffield Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Economics with Oxford Economics, for candidates who have recently finished (or will soon) a relevant doctorate. Deadline: Sunday 15 September More info at nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/jo…

💡 We are pleased to announce the launch of new resources on how to integrate qualitative methods into RCTs. This pair of guides are designed to guide research teams who aim to use qualitative tools in RCT design, implementation, and analysis. Take a look! ➡️ Implementing

500 years of the Reformation, 500 women from Zurich who shape or have shaped the city, and one of them is UBS Foundation Professor Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣. We are particularly proud that Dina's commitment, whether through her research or her public voice in various social debates, is

Yesterday, I was asked by John A. List + Robert Metcalfe to talk about scaling experiments at AFE. I'm pretty positive about the topic overall but there are def bottlenecks. This stuff is just riskier. My slides below in the next tweet: