Arkadev Ghosh

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…

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-postdocto…

📢@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

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!

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…

#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

@Prof_Nishith_P Congratulations!!

Feels so good!!!

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.

@kalyanich93 @EconAtAshoka @AshokaUniv Congratulations!

Life update: I started a new job as an Assistant Professor of economics at Ashoka University! Excited and grateful to continue working in academia, with an active research group, and much closer to home! @EconAtAshoka @AshokaUniv

*** 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

@RenanChMarques Thanks, Renan!

@arkdevghosh Congratulations! Was so much fun reading and discussing this paper in class this year.

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…

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

@munirsquires Thank you, Munir! Very grateful for your all your guidance along the way.

@arkdevghosh Congratulations! Such a great paper

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

@srajagopalan Thank you, Shruti! Looking forward to this year's series.

@arkdevghosh Congrats! I had so much fun discussing it with you.

@maitreesh Thank you, @maitreesh!

@arkdevghosh Great news - congratulations, Arka!

@maxbnorton Thanks, Max!

@arkdevghosh Congrats Arkadev!

@Prof_Nishith_P Thank you, @Prof_Nishith_P!

@arkdevghosh Incredible!! Congratulations

@_ADeshpande Thank you!

@arkdevghosh Congratulations!

@RazTzachi Thank you!

@arkdevghosh Congrats! 🎉