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]

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?
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[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!

[The Review of Economic Studies @RevEconStudies]

*** 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,

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[Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh]

@RenanChMarques Thanks, Renan!

[Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh]

My job market paper is done :)

Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India | Journal of Political Economy https://t.co/Y7ZpijIJ7W

[NBER @nberpubs]

Upward mobility increases with baseline inequality—a sharp contrast to the traditional Great Gatsby story, from Laura Mayoral, Debraj Ray, and @ggenicot https://t.co/eBCFxJ6h7S

[Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh]

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

[AEA Journals @AEAjournals]

Forthcoming in the AER: "Managers and Public Hospital Performance" by Pablo Muñoz and Cristóbal Otero. https://t.co/C7oKPrjiSI

[Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh]

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

[Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh]

@maitreesh Thank you, @maitreesh!

[Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh]

@maxbnorton Thanks, Max!

[Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh]

@Prof_Nishith_P Thank you, @Prof_Nishith_P!

[Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh]

@_ADeshpande Thank you!