Arkadev Ghosh

Assistant Professor of Economics, @DukeEcon.

[Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh]

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: https://t.co/Q8n3S7VTR5

[Matt Lowe @hmmlowe]

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)?

[The Review of Economic Studies @RevEconStudies]

Review of Economic Studies is happy to announce the launch of the new journal, Review of Economic Studies: Insights. This is an open-access, general-interest economics journal that will publish short papers with a fast review process and accept/reject decisions.

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[NBER @nberpubs]

With exposure time fixed, working with one outgroup partner builds stronger ties; working with several reduces the majority’s misperceptions about the outgroup, from Anujit Chakraborty, @arkdevghosh, @hmmlowe, and Gareth Nellis https://t.co/h6gdBe2Xj3

[Daniel Yi Xu @DanielYiXu]

We are hiring a tenure track assistant professor at Duke Econ @DukeEcon. All fields will be considered!

https://t.co/06fS0UvJR5

[Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh]

@anahitark Congratulations!

[Nathan Nunn @DrNathanNunn]

There's only a few more days left to submit a paper for the NBER Economics of Religion conference -> fall 2026 in San Francisco... https://t.co/XIi1fHVJEt

[NBER @nberpubs]

Examining whether algorithmic risk assessments improve child-protection decisions, where supervisors decide which cases need closer scrutiny, from @JasonBaron4, @arkdevghosh, and Richard Lombardo https://t.co/IVHMaocdW2

[Shruti Rajagopalan @srajagopalan]

📢Thrilled to continue the young scholars series on the @IdeasofIndia podcast at @mercatus, where we invite scholars entering the academic job market whose research focuses on India to discuss their work. We have a handful of 30-minute recording slots for 2026. Please spread the word!

To be considered, please use this google form (takes about 5-7 minutes).
https://t.co/G9DxkDiYFv

Applications are open until August 10, 2026. All submissions received by the deadline will be considered together. We will make our decisions by August 18 and send out invitations thereafter. Recordings will take place in August and September.

Past editions of the series have featured some fantastic scholars across disciplines.

The 2025 series featured Kartik Srivasatva, Sunny Rai @snyrai_  Chetana Sabnis, @asad__tariq, Karthik Narayan @asknarayan, @nayantara_ Biswas, @Lavanya__Ammu

The 2024 series featured @RollyKapoor, @DeepikaPadmanab, @sukrit_puri, @deepti_sharma8, Steven @BrownstoneEcon, Aarushi Kalra @chidiya_, Abishek Choutagunta @kaapi_croissant, @Kushagr_Bakshi, Atanu Chatterjee @atanu_xahs

The 2023 series featured @rajatkochhar, Vani Swarupa Murali, @KartikeyaBatra, @kumar_rithika, @Vanisha49, @dunc_webb, @i_sarathpillai, @vatsalecon.

The 2022 series featured Khushdeep Malhotra, Anoop Jain @Fruit_noops, @aliz_toth, @raamadhok, @mahimavasishth, @BanerjeeShweta, @nish_vats.

The 2021 series featured @arkdevghosh, @tiwari_chhavi, Gaurav Mittal @geo_mittal, Bhumi Purohit, @AshishKumarSed1, @karsha, @Dr_NehaG, @KaranBabbar19, @KimFeCramer, @ArchanaDang1, @apuravbhatiya, @radhi_jain.

And it all started in 2020 when we featured work by @vaishnavisur, @RohitTicku, @tanu_kumar1, @DrRayProma, @VaidehiTandel, Kunal Mangal @mrgunalan.

I answered a few questions related to the job market series in 2024 (Please take note of points 1 and 3). Here’s the link https://t.co/trduJkPmae

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

When states in the US banned cousin marriage, it led to more people immigrating to the cities and changing into higher paying professions. More evidence for how kinship networks hold back development. 1/

[Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh]

We have a new NBER working paper on how uncertainty about social-group membership shapes intergroup relations.

[NBER @nberpubs]

Concealment of social-group membership between pairs of workers weakened intergroup relations by making them unsure of each other's identity and less able to interact authentically, from Anujit Chakraborty, @arkdevghosh, @hmmlowe, and Gareth Nellis https://t.co/p9uYuku95D

[Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh]

@claudferraz @ubcVSE @munirsquires Many congratulations, @munirsquires!

[The Review of Economic Studies @RevEconStudies]

The Confederate diaspora—small but powerful and ideologically intense—reshaped culture across the U.S. through influence, organizational mobilization, and political leverage.

New paper by @SamuelBazzi, @Andreas_Ferrara, Fiszbein, @tpearson_tweets, and Testa:

https://t.co/L2GMjAhKDu

[achyuta adhvaryu @achadhvaryu]

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.

https://t.co/kYZGhPjGNt

[EEA @EEANews]

📢@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

[Rick Hornbeck @Rick__Hornbeck]

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: https://t.co/1DSR2NZ38p

The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

[Tushar Kundu @tushardonnay]

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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?
🧵👇

[Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh]

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: https://t.co/ZprSB2xByQ

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 How youth camps helped build social cohesion in India

Today on VoxDev w/ @arkdevghosh (@DukeEcon), @prerna394 (@ubcVSE), @hmmlowe (@ubcVSE) & Gareth Nellis (@UCSDPoliSci): https://t.co/Hqnqb7eqKB

[UBC Economics @ubcVSE]

#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: https://t.co/I3eYVxOaHV

[Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh]

@Prof_Nishith_P Congratulations!!

[Shruti Rajagopalan @srajagopalan]

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.

[Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh]

@kalyanich93 @EconAtAshoka @AshokaUniv Congratulations!