Kartik Srivastava
@KSrivastava_
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PhD candidate at Harvard Kennedy School | Yale College '17 | Previously at J-PAL and World Bank
Joined September 2018
🌞The Firms, Trade, & Dev Conference 2025 kicks off today. Scholars & practitioners will explore how firms, trade, & policy shape development. We start w/ Kartik Srivastava on evidence from referral-based hiring experiments in India. https://t.co/aqz2a88xBf
#FirmsTradeDev
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I had a great time chatting with @srajagopalan about my job market paper. Thank you so much for having me on!
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.
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Cool article. @Alpsungu @KSrivastava_ @LallhoR find that subsidising shopkeeper loans to random micro-retail customers allows retailers to increase future lending to both in-group and out-group members.
Did you know the world’s most common lender isn’t banks? It’s the corner shops! Billions unbanked; live on a grocery tab. But little is known. So we study how poverty, culture, and finance create a unique market, and why we need a trust-building policy🧵 https://t.co/StYXguyjog
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Lastly, we find suggestive evidence for consumption smoothing: treated borrowers are (mildly) more likely to afford medicine when needed and less likely to borrow from family or informal lenders. Joint work w/ an amazing team @KSrivastava_ and @Lalhorr (also massive thanks
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Did you know the world’s most common lender isn’t banks? It’s the corner shops! Billions unbanked; live on a grocery tab. But little is known. So we study how poverty, culture, and finance create a unique market, and why we need a trust-building policy🧵 https://t.co/StYXguyjog
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Documenting labor market expectations before graduation, and realized outcomes in the year that follows for university students in Pakistan, from @orianabandiera, @amenjalal_, and @ninaroussille
https://t.co/ULnkWrL2Iv
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📢 We close our Fall '24 seminars with @KSrivastava_ presenting his joint work on residential schooling in India and its consequences on historically disadvantaged students this Wednesday. @jcarolina_lopez will discuss her comments. @GPSIndiaCenter @achadhvaryu @sayahnika
Targeted school systems can boost educational attainment for disadvantaged minorities in #India, but at what cost? Join @KSrivastava_ (@Harvard) as he shares research on the potential trade-offs in network size & labor market outcomes. Register now: https://t.co/yM9w1xBqkX
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Targeted school systems can boost educational attainment for disadvantaged minorities in #India, but at what cost? Join @KSrivastava_ (@Harvard) as he shares research on the potential trade-offs in network size & labor market outcomes. Register now: https://t.co/yM9w1xBqkX
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#NEUDC2024 session Trade and Spatial Econometrics presented by @o_mbonu presenting about how does market segmentation affect the supply of privatized mass transit in Johannesburg, South Africa, chaired by @thetahat
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Thanks @Prof_Nishith_P Silvia @GAP_NU_ for organizing a great conference!
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@BrownstoneEcon is brilliant and is on the market this year - check out his amazing JMP on the labor market impacts of agricultural mechanization
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Grateful to get the Weiss distinguished PhD research paper award at NEUDC with @BrownstoneEcon for our paper on land concentration and monopsony power in labor markets
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Health: Interventions adoption and impact, chaired by Manuela Angelucci. Gabriella Fleischman examines how to sustain and scale the adoption of new health behaviors in peri-urban Pakistan through a field experiment on water chlorination.
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Thanks for the highlights and the chance to discuss a great paper @leightjessica!
@EconatIllinois @KSrivastava_ presents evidence using a spatial RD that villages within the historic Hyderabad presidency in 🇮🇳 still characterized by ⬆️ land inequality; no effects on male wages but much ⬇️ female wages; joint w/ @BrownstoneEcon
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We're excited to have our CID PhD ambassador @AditiBhowmick18 take us through #NEUDC2024 this weekend. Good luck to all our PhD affiliates presenting - @KSrivastava_ @GabriellaFleis6 @o_mbonu @TilmanGraff Matthias Weigand & @AditiBhowmick18 and the organizing team @GAP_NU_
Nervous and excited for my first every NEUDC talk tomorrow (I hear it's a rite of passage for young dev econs) -- I'll be taking over @HarvardCID twitter over the next two days sharing some of the inspiration online. Follow along if you aren't making it this year!
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#NEUDC2024 #NEUDC Session on Long-Run Development; @KSrivastava_ explores effects of historical feudal land grants in India and finds persistent land concentration and lower wages for female agricultural workers today and for males with mobility and migration constraints.
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Thanks, @MilanV! Looking forward to presenting this work at NEUDC.
Interesting new work on the very long shadow of precolonial land tenure policies in India, with impacts on land concentration, female ag wages, and NREGA implementation even today https://t.co/zFHAw5FBrt
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So happy to see in print!🧵Main q: how does adjusting the size of local gov't units affect service delivery? Ex-ante, not obvious! Smaller population=easier to cater to local prefs, monitor leaders, etc but may be more susceptible to elite capture, miss out on econ of scale, etc
Forthcoming in the AER: "Polity Size and Local Government Performance: Evidence from India" by Veda Narasimhan and Jeffrey Weaver.
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📢 We are hiring for a data RA position! Come work with @sandipz, @PaulFNiehaus, @karthik_econ, @gchiplunkar and @KSrivastava_ : unique opportunity to work on both data analysis and data collection for a large scale RCT! 🔔 Apply: https://t.co/RXv9F0NWGR
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Come join our team for an exciting new role with data analysis work on a large-scale randomized evaluation in Odisha!
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