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Duncan Webb

@duncanwebb.bsky.social

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Development economics postdoc @ Princeton, incoming Assistant Prof @ NOVA SBE, focusing on discrimination, social change, and human capital www.duncan-webb.com

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Duncan Webb @duncanwebb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Super excited to see this labour of love out in the Journal of Political Economy! 🤩 I find that getting neighbours to talk to each other about hiring a transgender worker can on its own drastically reduce discrimination in urban India www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Duncan Webb @duncanwebb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We find this program led to pretty big (+0.15-0.25 SD) improvements in girls' math & literacy, even though the program doesn't focus on academics at all, and even though we didn't see any measurable improvements in physical health or school attendance.

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Duncan Webb @duncanwebb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Two teachers per school run a 5-minute session every week on menstruation, and a few girls in each school are nominated as "Young Girl Leaders" to champion menstrual hygiene among their classmates.

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Duncan Webb @duncanwebb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🔥Very cool paper showing that women in India are way more likely to take up a job (↑29%) in a female-only workplace, and that this can be explained by husbands' jealousy/desire for control. These are massive effects, equivalent to 2.5x increases in wage bit.ly/4nn9apn

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Duncan Webb @duncanwebb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Very excited to be starting as a faculty member at NovaSBE, along with 9 other lovely members of the crew! Looking forward to meeting all my fantastic colleagues in Lisbon

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Duncan Webb @duncanwebb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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