Resuf Ahmed
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Ph.D. Economics at @heclausanne. Political and Development Economics.
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Joined November 2019
This is @AnanyaKotia an @LSEEcon JM candidate. He's the Founder of the India Data Lab Initiative. Ananya is working in the fields of development, finance, and trade. His JM paper is "When Competition Compels Change: Trade, Management, and Productivity" https://t.co/nfixkGav8a
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Very happy to be able share the polling-level dataset on Indian elections 2009, 2014, 2019 that we have been working on for more than a decade. Both the data and the data descriptor in @ScientificData are open access. @p_gupta93 @UniOslo_SVfak
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๐ How skin tone still shapes inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean Today on VoxDev, @billywoom (@PSEinfo) presents evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean suggesting that skin tone is a powerful predictor of intergenerational mobility:
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Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that skin tone is a powerful predictor of intergenerational mobility.
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Guy Micheals and I are hiring an RA for our project on the impact of integration in schools. Closing date: noon on Wed 2 July, 2025. We are looking for a graduate student based in London with an interest in the subject. #EconTwitter #jobad More details:
cep.lse.ac.uk
Work for CEP | Centre for Economic Performance.
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Our next seminar is on Monday, 2/Jun/2025. We welcome ๐@deanyang๐ (Michigan), who will present "Ancient Epics in the Television Age: Mass Media, Identity, and the Rise of Hindu Nationalism in India", joint work with @resuf_ahmed, @pbrimble, @akhila_kovvuri and Alessandro Saia
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๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐- ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ, ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ถ๐ผ๐ป, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ต๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐ฆ๐๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ด๐ฒ๐ ๐ญ. 252/279 judges are from upper caste(Non-SC-ST-OBC) groups. https://t.co/m5OmxQ52rG
HT has prepared an exhaustive database of all the 279 judges the Supreme Court has so far. We will be running a three part series based on this database. Here is the first part- 1. 32 out of all 279 Supreme Court Judges have had close family relations https://t.co/YLht1cEUM1
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1/ Three big, new India-relevant articles in @apsrjournal. @kharibiskut, @SimonChauchard & @NiloSiddiqui on misinformation and vigilantism https://t.co/aDY3O9bXri
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(1/4) ๐ Professor Amy Finkelstein to receive Doctorate Honoris Causa from @unil! @heclausanne and the Lausanne Center for Health Economics, Behavior and Policy (LCHE) are proud that the Rectorate of #UNIL decided to honor Professor Amy Finkelstein with an #HonoraryDoctorate
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๐ข Call for Papers โ PhD Macroeconomics Conference (1/3) We invite PhD students/postdocs to submit work in macro (theoretical & empirical) for a 2-day conf. in Lausanne (Dec 4โ5th, 2025) with 12 talks, meals & dinner included. ๐ https://t.co/YUMndllfOS
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How the Ramayan TV show helped shape a singular nationwideย Hindu identity. @samzsays โ๏ธ https://t.co/iAaStbLhfw
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Excited to share my #JMP! With Jonathan Lehne, we study the impact of expanding access to legal representation through legal aid clinics in prisons across India. Defendants with access to legal aid are more likely to get favorable judicial decisions. (1/n) ๐งต
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Hi #EconTwitter, I am Manpreet Singh, PhD @PSEinfo . My #EconJMP analyses large renewable capacity auctions, focusing on India. I study 2 issues: 1โฃ Theory: Cost-efficiency of firms selected in India's auction. 2โฃ Empirical: Impact of efficient alternatives on public funds ๐งต
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Econ Grad Student, Saxena Affiliate and PSTC Trainee Aarushi Kalra ( @chidiya_ ) wins best paper award for NEUDC 2024 at Northeastern University. Her paper is entitled " Hate in the Time of Algorithms: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Online Behavior". Congrats!
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In the latest episode of @IdeasofIndia @mercatus I speak with Aarushi Kalra @chidiya_, a PhD candidate @Brown_Economics, about the demand and supply of toxicity against minorities on social media , algorithms, user versus platform behavior, and much more. https://t.co/w11fy4C5bx
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SHRUTI RAJAGOPALAN: Welcome to Ideas of India, a podcast
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Hope you can join us tomorrow (10/31) for this virtual @CarnegieEndow event at 12 pm EDT. Register here and send us your questions in the chat.
Indian Americansโ political leanings are highly salient as the 2024 presidential elections approach, given the sheer size of the diaspora and because Vice President Kamala Harris is the first presidential nominee of Indian heritage on the ballot. What are Indian Americansโ
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Fascinating discussion of new research by @sukrit_puri โ>
In the latest episode of the 2024 job market series of @IdeasofIndia I speak with @sukrit_puri, a PhD candidate in political science @MIT about the entanglement between business and politics in India. We talked about how family firms versus management run businesses give
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Very happy to see this WP being released !!! I have learnt so much (and continue to do so) from working on it, both from the research itself and from my amazing coauthors. Here a quick thread if you want to know more about the ยซ Gravity of Violence ยป:
New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19527 The Gravity of Violence Mathieu Couttenier @MatCoutt @ENSdeLyon #CERGIC, Julian Marcoux @unil, Thierry Mayer @sciencespo @ScPoResearch, Mathias Thoenig @unil
https://t.co/HYuCA5j9II
#CEPR_DE #CEPR_ITRE #CEPR_PoE #economics
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Program below! ๐
The third edition of the workshop is shaping up to be quite exceptional. We received over 200 applications (most truly stellar) making the selection process very challenging. List of accepted papers is fantastic. Will announce the program soon.
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Thanks a lot @_alice_evans
After an Indian village gets a political reservation for scheduled castes, The number of SC owned firms dramatically increases - the brilliant @resuf_ahmed
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