Sai Madhurika Mamunuru
@SMamunuru
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assistant professor @whitmancollege | networks, inequality, gender
Joined May 2019
Actual inequality and the inequality that people perceive can be wildly different, depending on people's social networks. This has big implications for public sentiment! https://t.co/hsFHalt9Jc
@SMamunuru et al. document this in Karnataka, India.
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Daniele Girardi of @Kingspol_econ, @SMamunuru of @whitmancollege, @simondhalliday of @SNFAgora, and Samuel Bowles of @sfiscience investigate if studying economics makes you more selfish and politically conservative. #EconomicsEducation ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️ https://t.co/CBZLqbZU2g
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It is widely held that studying economics makes you more selfish and politically conservative. We use a difference-in-differences strategy to disentangle the causal impact of economics education...
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New paper coauthored with @SMamunuru and @arjun_jayadev titled "Social networks and experiened inequality" published in JEBO https://t.co/a3bOW3cbhw Details in 🧵... 1/n
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🗞️ Are economists selfish? This was @TimHarford's question in the @FT's Undercover economist ➡️ https://t.co/v6TdLCEdGo Unsure about the answer? Read the paper by @DanieleGirardi_, @SMamunuru, @simondhalliday and Sam Bowles to find out. ➡️ https://t.co/Nj5qQ4vk1E
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📕 Spoiler alert: Probably not! @DanieleGirardi_, @SMamunuru, @simondhalliday and Sam Bowles answered this question by looking at a sample of undergraduate students at @UMassAmherst Read their paper, it's open-access ➡️ https://t.co/A82KZ4SVlB
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Another great set of articles on teaching economics. https://t.co/F7R0KSucEj
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Does studying economics make you selfish? Study by @DanieleGirardi_ et al (admittedly a bunch of economists 😎) finds no discernible effect (whatever the course content) on self-interest or beliefs about others’ self-interest: https://t.co/2A0g06TGYx HT @andi_staub
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