Pushkar Maitra
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Cricket enthusiast. Love old Bollywood film music. Day job is Professor of Economics @MonashBusiness https://t.co/Jr2exdy75H
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined November 2015
Very happy to see this published. Really enjoyed working with my fantastic co- authors @ProfAnanish, Vegard and @fr_jensenius.
NEW -. Selecting the ‘Best’? Competing Dimensions of Politician Quality in the Developing World - - @ProfAnanish, Vegard Iversen, @fr_jensenius & @maits225. #OpenAccess
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RT @TheChoiceLab: ❗Deadline Approaching for SEEDEC 2025!. Don't miss your chance to register for the Symposium on Economic Experiments in D….
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The annual Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC).
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Saw and heard the incessant boo-ing of Virat Kohli today at the MCG. Kohli is no saint but have everyone in this country forgotten that he was the one who essentially stopped the boo-ing of Stephen Smith post 2019? But it is easy to make Kohli the villain.
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Thank you @FacultiNet for highlighting this research. Joint work with my fantastic co-author @inhouseconomist. Open access paper: @MonashBusiness.
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How do households in developing countries cope with unpredictable rainfall affecting agricultural productivity? Pushkar Maitra @maits225 @MonashUni #econtwitter
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RT @TheChoiceLab: 📢Submissions are open for SEEDEC 2025 - organized by the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods with keyno….
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FAIR NHH invites you to the SEEDEC Conference 2025 which will take place in Bonn, Germany!
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The always fantastic @bengroundwater writes: "The UK has been improving of late, thanks to a certain former colony’s embrace of coffee culture, though if you wander into a Costa or a Caffe Nero (or another of the UK’s many coffee chains), best of luck to you". Can't agree more!!!.
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Thank you @KartikeyaBatra. This is fantastic.
Scraped election results from @ECISVEEP website. Here is the link to the Excel file. @MilanV @neerajprsd @YRDeshmukh @cvoter @GillesVerniers @NeelanjanSircar @politicalbaaba .
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Loved working on this paper with my fantastic co-authors @Kaustav82714456 and @atisha_ghosh. Thanks to the Associate Editor and the 3 referees for their excellent comments and suggestions. Paper is open access.
Very happy to share my recent article with @maits225 and @atisha_ghosh which just got published in Public Choice @_PublicChoice. It shows how even with retrospective voting exogenous shocks can affect electoral outcomes. @UniLeicBusiness .
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RT @arc_gov_au: The ARC is calling for new members to join its College of Experts in 2025. Nominations are open now in the Research Managem….
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Link to a podcast based on this paper (mostly in Bengali). Thanks to Srinjoy at Coffee House Experience for organizing this informal discussion (or adda). Enjoyed talking about Indian elections, as another one is upon us.
Welfare program reforms in India since 2014 have failed to improve targeting or reduce clientelism, from @maits225, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, and Sujata Visaria
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So happy that this paper, with my fantastic co-authors, is now finally out. Absolutely love working with them. Thanks to four anonymous referees and @ImranRasul3 (editor-in-charge) for their great comments and guidance. Paper is open access.
Forthcoming article by @maits225 Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Sujata Visaria "Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private versus Political Intermediaries" @EEANews @OUPEconomics.
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I have been an avid follower of Indian cricket since 1977 (the Tony Grieg series). Except for the 1983 (West Indies series) I can't remember Indian bowlers treated with this kind of disdain in home conditions consistently. It is as if India is playing away and England at home.
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Oh Boy!. Risque business: Raunchy performance shocks university Christmas party
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Burlesque dancers clad in G-strings stunned Monash University’s finance academics after party organisers got more than they bargained for at the end-of-year party.
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"most of us liked having our own space, even if it was just a beige cubicle, and didn’t really want to hot desk in something that looked suspiciously like a soft play area designed for two-year-olds". Well well well.
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If companies can get back to making decent products at a fair price, and paying their staff and customers on time, the system will be a lot stronger.
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What a wonderful couple of days @EconAtAshoka! Fantastic presentations and discussions, warm, constructive and friendly interactions, catching up with friends and of course amazing food. Thank you so much for inviting me and so glad that I could attend.
A glimpse from the 2023 @EconAtAshoka annual conference dinner. Featuring @Sudiptahere @maits225 @singhabhi @kanmahajan @asanishasharma @BD_ashoka @ayush_pan @mihirb85 @ohetuk .and others
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Congratulations to Lata Gangadharan (who is not on twitter/X) for being selected as one of the 6 Monash Maureen Brunt Fellowship Scheme Professorial Fellows. @MonashBusiness @MonashUni. More details: via @YouTube.
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Thank you for having me. It was a fantastic and productive day.
The 10th Annual Natural Experiments Workshop (ANEW) was a great success. Tx to @GauriotRomain @pallavi_shukla1 and Daniel Avdic for putting together this important gathering. Now onto the 11th ANEW!. @DeakinEconomics @Deakin_ADI
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Fantastic Keynote presentation by Som on Environment and Development in India. Great way to start #MEEW2023. @MonashBusiness @CDES_Monash @GauravDatt_CDES
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So sad to hear this news. He taught us Delhi School and then I got to know him well in his role as the head of ASARC at ANU. A big loss to the Development Economics community in this country. Rest in peace.
Vale Professor Raghbendra Jha, a leading economist working on India's economy, the macroeconomics of developing countries, and public economics. He led the Australia South Asia Research Centre (ASARC) at ANU for many years. He'll be greatly missed. @ANUCrawford @ANUasiapacific
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Really looking forward to being at Ashoka next month. Thanks so much for the invite.
!! SAVE THE DATE !!. The Ashoka Annual Economics Conference will be held from December 16-17th. We're pumped about having such remarkable economists join us for the conference. More details to follow🤓
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