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? 🧵

I’m excited to share my job market paper for the 2025-2026 market! In a real-effort experiment, participants working solely for money completed 23% more tasks than those offered the same monetary reward plus a charitable incentive (p < 0.02) 🤯 Thread below (1/)

🆕 How youth camps helped build social cohesion in India Today on VoxDev w/ @arkdevghosh (@DukeEcon), @prerna394 (@ubcVSE), @hmmlowe (@ubcVSE) & Gareth Nellis (@UCSDPoliSci):

We are hiring at @ubcVSE two assistant professors. Focus on international trade/spatial and applied micro (dev, labor, env, etc). Fantastic department, great city, democratic country. Please apply! https://t.co/2iYBwVmsYH

We’re hiring @ LSE ID We have *multiple* economist positions—assistant and associate professor—here at LSE International Development. Our economics group is expanding. We have exciting stuff planned. We’re keen on big picture economists. DMs open. https://t.co/xd1O54HOK3

We (me, @Jeff_Weaver_, @anahitark) are looking to hire a Gujarati-speaking paid intern and RA to help with lab-in-the-field work on barriers to trade in rural Gujarat. Full details in the link, and feel free to help us by RTing!

Hiring a pre-doc for work in dev, pe, and econ history. Please apply :) https://t.co/trbnpIG4yd @econ_ra

👥 Does intergroup contact reduce prejudice? CEGA Faculty Affiliate @hmmlowe finds that: 📉 Effects smaller than previously thought 🧩 Meeting Allport conditions doesn’t guarantee success 💡 Stronger impact on individual perception than groups 📖:

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J-PAL is once again accepting self-nominations to join our network and become an invited researcher. The application process is currently open and will close on August 1st. Learn more about the self-nomination process:

Children that work in markets in India are good at maths when a customer makes a complicated request, but bad when facing an abstract maths problem as presented in school. Children that don't work in markets show the opposite pattern. Very cool. https://t.co/Rcwd3W1SAH

Presenting a broad set of stylized facts about developing country labor markets, synthesizing the recent literature, and highlighting promising directions for future work, from @emilybreza and @supKaur https://t.co/o9Dlja1h35

Cool paper in Nature using data for a few million kids in France: no gender gap in Maths test scores at the start of first grade, big gap by the end. https://t.co/3NHxfEcKy6

🚨 Thrilled to share that our paper, "Sexual Harassment in Public Spaces and Police Patrols: Experimental Evidence from Urban India," is now in print at the @QJEHarvard! 🇮🇳🚔👩🏽‍🦰 With Sofia Amaral, @g_borker, Nathan Fiala, Anjani Kumar, & @micasviatschi 🧵👇 @NUCSSH @NUEcon

The takeaway is that cross-party peer influence exists, but it is limited, and consistent with a cue-taking channel, rather than persuasion. We thank the Icelandic MPs who replied to our survey, and the (likely) polisci referees that showed some kindness to a couple of

After a long road, excited to see my work with @dongheejo68 published in @The_JOP. In Iceland, a lottery determines which politicians sit next to each other. We find that different-party politicians randomly assigned to sit next to each other are slightly more likely to vote

New evidence on the intergenerational effects of intergroup contact: male civil servants exposed to female colleagues have daughters that are more likely to work. Link here: https://t.co/bK1ORuo2TJ, from Aneja, @SilviaFarins, @guoxu_econ

This is a very nice paper which clarifies something that many people working on close elections get wrong. Most of the time, close election RDs do not identify the causal effect of candidate characteristics.

We (me, @Jeff_Weaver_, @anahitark) are looking to hire a Gujarati-speaking field intern (paid) and RA to help with lab-in-the-field work on barriers to trade in rural Gujarat. Full details in the link, and feel free to help us by RTing!

Conducting a field experiment in rural India to test whether effective communication training among married women impacts their labor supply, from Namrata Kala and Madeline McKelway https://t.co/12WXhSwjFX

James Robinson (@HarrisPolicy) and I are hiring one or more predocs starting Summer '25. Come work with us on political economy, economic history, and AI. Link: https://t.co/NCTLsRzbD2 @predoc_org