Researcher in Economics and Public Policy. Associate Professor @iimb_official
Bangalore, India
Joined March 2010
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In this paper in JDE, we provide new evidence on the impact of teachers' stereotypical attitudes on students' cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… (1/4)
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We invite you to register for the next IDEA Research Seminar, featuring Nobel Laureate James Robinson (University of Chicago)! Professor Robinson will be building on his BREAD-IGC lecture, “The Political Economy of Africa”. Register at the link in first reply 🔗🌐
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im four beers deep and i need everyone to understand that wikipedia is the last good thing. millions of strangers agreed to write down everything for free and then argue about citations forever. no ads. no paywall. this should not exist and it does and i'm crying about it
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Albania banned religion in 1967, razing religious sites except the 6 percent listed as monuments in 1948. Where none survived, women’s employment rose more, from @RichMurphy_Econ and Shqiponja Telhaj nber.org/papers/w35933
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This is one of the most important pieces of social science on human and AI interaction that I’ve seen in some time. Experts follow agentic advice the vast majority of the time (causally), but only a tiny fraction credit the agent—majority think they came to decision on their own volition.
Reminds me of the classic Nisbett and Wilson study on people following outside influence without realizing it
“ But as more work is handed to AI—including AI safety research—these judgment calls are the main levers for people's own values to influence outcomes.
If people defer to AI without noticing, then "human in the loop" might provide less assurance than people expect.”
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Going for a walk in India often feels like a video game.
On the footpath you're dodging:
- Holes
- Hoardings
- Construction
- Electrical boxes
And when you finally give up and hit the road you're brushing shoulders with autos, wrong-side drivers, buses and water tankers.
Looking forward to co-hosting this IDEA session. We hope to have an engaging discussion on writing papers and navigating the publication process. If you are interested in joining, please register and share a question you would like the editors to address.
idea.devecon.org/career-skil…
Writing Papers and Responding to Reviewers — the session early-career researchers keep asking for.
Mon, Nov 30 · 11 AM ET · Virtual
@EdmondsEric, James Fenske, Randi Hjalmarsson, @aprajitmahajan
Free: idea.devecon.org/career-skil…
@deanyang @willafriedman @sohamsahoo @ideadevecon
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Roads used to suck. Then Google Maps happened.
Trains still suck.
So I built Google Maps for trains. 🚆
Introducing “Where is my train?” on DelayBahn
🗺️ Live trains + traffic
📍 Live train tracking
👥 Share your journey
⏰ Arrival alarms
⚠️ Report issues to help others
Try it → delaybahn.com/wo-ist-mein-zu…
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Every three years the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, releases the results of international school tests sat by 15-year-olds all across the world. Anyone who cares about the young of today should be alarmed at this year’s scores bit.ly/4zXPj6g
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When they want to beat up and drag students on the streets, it takes Modi and Amit Shah’s police two seconds flat thousands of cops were deployed instantly with lathis, water cannons, tear gas and pallet guns ready.
But when 40 or 50 kids are trapped under tons of broken concrete, fallen pillars, and debris at South Campus?
Not a single cop was on site. A single JCB took over 2 to 3 hours just to show up,
while NSUI President and volunteers were literally digging through broken concrete with their bare hands to pull students out alive.
And after all the damage was done, Rekha Gupta ji arrives with her massive lashkar and heavy security cover just to inspect the site for photo ops.
Who is answerable for this tragedy?
It is YOU who is answerable. It is your administration that enables illegal structural modifications, turns a blind eye to unchecked building safety violations in student hubs like Satya Niketan, and protects the PG mafia running these death traps.
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Breaks my heart to repost this, but this is what living in Delhi entails hindustantimes.com/india-new…
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Becoming Agarwal opens up exciting avenues for researching elites through a gendered lens. Here are my two cents on @UjithraP's book:
thiagur.substack.com/p/how-b……
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Dear followers,
I’m delighted to share this article which is finally forthcoming. We show that business school education is associated with managers paying lower wages, holding the labor share down and not sharing, revenues and profits with workers.
Forthcoming in the AER: "Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers’ Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark" by Daron Acemoglu, Alex Xi He, and Daniel le Maire. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
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Our paper is out! :) We argue for a new approach to econometrics that takes into account how humans add bias (selection on significance or sign) and uncertainty (multiple reasonable design choices) in econometrics. But today I want to talk about FRAUD. 1/
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Dear followers
This is a truly brilliant article by Henry Farrell. Not because it defends me against the Economist (I have moved on). It’s the way Farrell frames and analyzes the issues surrounding technooptimism and AI. The Acemoglu Wars Are All About AI. programmablemutter.com/p/the…
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Alberto Barbera, the President of the Venice Festival, said that the premire of "Under the Skin" (2013) was one of the worst screenings he had ever attended. According to him, Scarlett Johansson was almost in tears because of the audience's response & it was the only time the audience booed a film. Barbera then tried to console her by saying, "Don’t worry, in time the film will be recognised." He later said, "And that’s exactly what happened. It’s now a cult movie.” "Under the Skin" (2013) was named as 'The Best British film of the 21st century' in a poll of critics.
("‘We knew we would face insults’: Venice film festival’s Alberto Barbera on including Polanski and Allen", Nadia Khomami, The Guardian, 2023)
P.S: On this day, 13 years ago, "Under the Skin" (2013) premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, USA.
This CGD article is fascinating, not least for the way it is written. Sometimes social media interactions do resurface gems from the past!
Sandwiches from the latter have fed many cohorts of dev econ students in Oxford!
And formed the backdrop for one of my favourite pieces by @JustinSandefur @m_clem (taking down a truly terrible book by someone we both knew and had been taught by!)
cgdev.org/publication/let-pe…
