Jay Kulkarni

Econ, books, cars, and food.
Bocconi '25 | APU '22 | Rishi Valley School '19

[Anand Shrivastava @econanand]

New CSIE working paper (wonkish!) with @amitbasole and Pratyush Priyadarshi. Link at the end.

India's labour surveys sort households into strata before sampling. This can make estimates more precise, as compared to simple random sampling, but does it work? 🧵

[XKDR Forum @XkdrF]

Does credit risk only flow from sovereigns down to firms? In Big Ideas Ep 76, Prabesh Luitel (IÉSEG) argues it's circular — corporate distress can feed back into sovereign risk, making firm-level data an early warning system.

📽️ https://t.co/RaRcAhK2oj

[Pune Public Policy Festival @PunePPF]

From research workflows to public service delivery, AI is already changing how policy is designed and implemented. This XKDR session explores practical applications of LLMs in public policy.

#PPPF2026 #PolicyInnovation #AIInPublicPolicy #TechAndSociety

[Jay Kulkarni @jayvkulkarni]

Origin story of rava idli -- lack of rice supplies around Burma's partition -- MTR couldn't do without idlis.

From Sam Dalrymple's Shattered Lands, Pg 91.

[Jay Kulkarni @jayvkulkarni]

The currency we circulate are I-owe-you notes, signed by a central bank. Reading Graeber is always so mind-expanding!

[Jay Kulkarni @jayvkulkarni]

"The eye has never seen, not the hand touched a dollar. All that we can touch or see is a promise to pay or satisfy a debt due for an amount called a dollar."
-- Mitchell-Innes quoted in "Debt" Chpt 3, Note 9; David Graeber.

[Ajay Shah @ajay_shah]

"Households that live within their means in India" by Jay Kulkarni and Susan Thomas, on The Leap Blog, 11 July 2025. New knowledge drawing on CPHS data, establishing basic facts about households in India.

https://t.co/RCkZNHM4sm

[XKDR Forum @XkdrF]

The Indian Rupee has been steadily depreciating against the dollar.
In Ep 39 of Big Ideas, Rajeswari Sengupta speaks with @PavithraM_ on the reasons behind this fall and the RBI’s role in managing it.

https://t.co/an4JT3g8f6

[Jay Kulkarni @jayvkulkarni]

@amitvarma , a lot of what I read last year had some connection with TSATU or EiE. Thanks for being a master curator!

[Jay Kulkarni @jayvkulkarni]

Blog: Books I read in 2024
I have written about a few memorable books that I read last year. Includes how I stumbled upon some of them and/or my key learnings. Do share if you can relate with my personal takeaways!

https://t.co/DGCkWcmzqR

[Jay Kulkarni @jayvkulkarni]

New blog update!
I have written a tutorial blog on webscraping based on my current workflow. Check it out here:
https://t.co/zyzUEPv27F

[Amit Basole @amitbasole]

1/3 New wp with @econanand, Akshit Arora, Jay Kulkarni on effects of #COVID19 lockdown in India. Thread below on findings. We use PLFS panel data to show that poorer households saw larger proportionate declines in income than richer ones contrary to Gupta, Malani and Woda (2021).

[Srishti Yadav @Srishting]

For Survey of World Economic History, students write a fictional account of a historical character. For e.g. Jay wrote a dairy entry of a Bengali zamindar visiting industrialising Britain: https://t.co/G7rqDZm7ht

[Rosa @rosaabraham6]

@amitbasole, Jay Kulkarni and @econanand use CMIE data to investigate how household incomes were impacted during and the months following the lockdown