Arkadev Ghosh
@arkdevghosh
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Assistant Professor of Economics, @DukeEcon.
Durham, NC
Joined February 2020
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:
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PDF | We hypothesize that broad contact, involving brief interactions with multiple outgroup members, and deep contact, meaning longer interactions with... | Find, read and cite all the research you...
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)?
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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!
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1/ 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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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:
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Abstract. Non-family-based institutions for socializing young people may play a vital role in creating close-knit, inclusive communities. We study the pote
🆕 How youth camps helped build social cohesion in India Today on VoxDev w/ @arkdevghosh (@DukeEcon), @prerna394 (@ubcVSE), @hmmlowe (@ubcVSE) & Gareth Nellis (@UCSDPoliSci):
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#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
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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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*** 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, 🧵 1/13
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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
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Managers and Public Hospital Performance" by Pablo Muñoz and Cristóbal Otero.
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(November 2025) - We study whether the quality of managers can affect public service provision in the context of public health. Using novel data from public hospitals in Chile, we show how the...
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My job market paper is done :) Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India | Journal of Political Economy
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This paper implements a field experiment in India to study whether the effects of religious diversity on productivity and attitudes depend on a firm’s production technology. I randomly assigned Hindu...
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Thrilled to continue the young scholar series at the @IdeasofIndia podcast @mercatus, where we invite academic job market candidates working on India to talk about their research. We have a handful of 30-min slots and they fill up within the first few days of announcement.
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This fall, the Ideas of India podcast will feature early‑career scholars currently on the academic job market whose research focuses on India. If you’d like to be considered, please submit your job...
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"State schools aimed to secularize Indonesia, but religious schools adapted, competing for students and strengthening Islamic identity instead." Recently accepted to #REStud, from @samuelbazzi, Hilmy and @benjaminmarx: https://t.co/ufhgsSHz06
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Researcher assumptions shape not just how experiments run—but what questions we ask. Outlining best practices for designing context-aware lab experiments in non-Western settings, from @sararlowes and @DrNathanNunn
https://t.co/IU9rIlxiuc
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Recently accepted to #REStud, "Overconfidence and Prejudice," from Heidhues, Kőszegi and Strack: https://t.co/HTkaFdPLNv
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Offering an empirical approach to study channels of discrimination in voting, from Amanda de Albuquerque, Frederico Finan, @AnubhavPc, Laura Karpuska, and Francesco Trebbi https://t.co/rCLYN11Ni7
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We should celebrate when we find no evidence of in-group bias.
In India, judge in-group bias by gender, religion, & caste is minimal. Just Accepted new paper by @ellliottt, @thesamasher, @AditiBhowmick18, S. Bhupatiraju, D. Chen, @gochristoph, @paulnovosad, @BilalSiddiqi
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Recently accepted to #REStud, "Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students’ Human Capital and Economic Outcomes," from Cabral, @bokyung_kim_, @maya_rossin, Schnell and Schwandt: https://t.co/kBb4pUcSM5
#Econtwitter #Trauma #HumanCapital #SchoolShooting
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Why are voters and parties so divided on cultural issues? Why do low-income voters support the right? This paper shows that economic change raising the salience of the educational divide can shift voters' social identities, explaining these phenomena. https://t.co/BwplhWSis1
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Delighted that our paper has found a home at @RevEconStudies!
Recently accepted to #REStud, "Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India," from @arkdevghosh, @prerna394, @hmmlowe and Nellis: https://t.co/qjFFMa0Y1r
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The contact hypothesis is a leading theory in social psychology--the idea is that interpersonal contact between groups, under favorable conditions, reduces prejudice. What do we learn from the new wave of pre-registered contact experiments? 🧵
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Prof. @arkdevghosh discusses how his research bridges the gaps between religions in India in a new piece by @DukeTrinity . https://t.co/FswU2uis7e
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