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UVA Economics @uvaeconomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨 We are hiring at UVA Economics! We have TWO Assistant Professor openings this year: • Microeconomic Theory and/or Industrial Organization • Applied Microeconomics Applications are due November 10. Apply here: • apply.interfolio.com/190672 • apply.interfolio.com/192420

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

India now spends ₹2 trillion/year (0.6% of GDP) on cash transfers to 130M+ women—yet we know little about their effects. In a new paper (bit.ly/4mE6EtW), @karthik-econ.bsky.social Paul Niehaus Jeff Weaver & I present findings from the first large-scale RCT of maternal cash transfers in India (1/10)

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Gabi Kruks-Wisner @gabikw.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Long time (8 yrs!) in the making, but it's here! Our article on gender, policing, & institutional change is out (Open Access) in @apsrjournal.bsky.social! Working on this @amangla.bsky.social & @sandipz.bsky.social was a privilege, adventure, esp in mixed method research. tinyurl.com/yc4f6ste

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Institutional Recognition: Activating Representation to Build Police Responsiveness to Women | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Institutional Recognition: Activating Representation to Build Police Responsiveness to Women

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Sahil Gandhi @gandhisahil.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Real Estate Regulatory Authority was introduced in 2016 to bring transparency in the Indian real estate What was its impact on outcomes? We answer this question in our new @jpube.bsky.social‬ paper "Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons?" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/6

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Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India

What is the impact of mandatory disclosures of quality on market outcomes? Does the impact differ across income groups due to a difference in abilitie…

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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

*PSA Prizes* 'Policing in #Patriarchy' wins APSA-PSA International Partnership Award 2025. @apsa.bsky.social. Congratulations @amangla.bsky.social @sandipz.bsky.social and @gabikw.bsky.social buff.ly/jm7zMOk

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Our first round of decisions for UVA Econ Phd admissions went out on Fri Feb 28. We will have an Open House on Mon Mar 24, both in person and virtual. We can only host a limited number in person, so only admitted students and those high on the waitlist will receive invites for visiting C'ville. 1/n

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Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Trump’s attack on US institutions, even if fully expected, is dispiriting, discombobulating and dangerous. In this very difficult time, we have to remember one thing: This is not normal, and it should not be normalized.

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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

One last conference announcement for today... Submit your papers to the BREAD Development Economics conference at Princeton, May 2-3! Submission deadline Feb 25. ibread.org/conference/b... #EconSky

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BREAD Conference on Development, Princeton, May 2-3, 2025 – BREAD

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Here’s a piece I wrote with @rfisman.bsky.social in the NYT, collecting some of our thoughts about what the oligarchic embrace of Trump can do to our economy and our politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/o...

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Opinion | TikTok, Trump and the Economic Cost of C.E.O.s Cozying Up to Trump (Gift Article)

The fealty that corporate chieftains are showing the new president is a worrying sign for our economy.

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Belinda Archibong @belindaarch.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

We spent time thinking carefully about best practices/suggestions for the use of social media in Economics and the report is now out here: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... #Econsky 1/n

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Report on the Status of Social Media Use in Economics and Recommendations for Best Practices

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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Report from the AEA Ad Hoc Committee on the Use of Social Media in Economics is out. www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... @belindaarch.bsky.social @florianederer.bsky.social @sarahjacobson.bsky.social @corinnelow.bsky.social & I were the committee thanks to everyone who answered survey or commented.

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Report on the Status of Social Media Use in Economics and Recommendations for Best Practices

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance by Karthik Muralidharan" by Jishnu Das. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance by Karthik Muralidharan

(Forthcoming Article)

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Owen Zidar @omzidar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Pretty striking findings! www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/app/uploads/...

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

How to Promote Equality without Backlash? This is a major challenge, exacerbated by social media. I welcome critique and would love to see further research www.ggd.world/p/how-to-pro...

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NBER @nber.org · 01/12/2024

An intervention within schools in Mozambique aimed at reducing gender-based violence mitigated violence by deterring potential perpetrators and fostering a proactive stance among victims, from Amaral, Garcia-Ramos, Gulesci, Ramos, Ore-Quispe, and Sviatschi www.nber.org/papers/w33203

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I've posted several times about the working paper, but the publication on "AER: Insights" is a good occasion to do it again: immigrants to the US have been less likely to be incarcerated for over 50 years **even without controlling for demographic characteristics.** www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap between Immigrants and the US-Born, 1870–2020†
By Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome,
Santiago Pérez, and Juan David Torres*
We provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than the US-born for 150 years. Moreover, relative to the US-born, immigrants’ incarceration rates have declined since 1960: immigrants today are 60 percent less likely to be incarcerated (30 percent relative to US-born Whites). This relative decline occurred among immigrants from all regions and cannot be explained by changes in observable characteristics or immigration policy. Instead, the decline is part of a broader divergence of outcomes between less-educated immigrants and their US-born counterparts.

Panels plotting incarceration rates for immigrants and US-born men between 1870 and 2019. Data are restricted to males ages 18–40. Data spanning 1870–1940 are from the full-count decennial censuses. Data spanning 1950–1990 are from the largest available subsamples from the corresponding decennial censuses. Data from 2005 onward are from the annual ACS. Cross markers indicate that fewer than 10,000 immigrants were used to calculate the corresponding incarceration rate. Panel A compares US-born men to all immigrants. Panels B–F compare US-born men to immigrants from a particular country-of-origin group. “Old Europeans” are immigrants from countries in the north and west of Europe. “New Europeans” are immigrants from countries in eastern and southern Europe. The “Rest of the world” category includes immigrants from countries not included in panels B–F.
Migrants typically show lower incarceration rates

accounting for individual-level characteristics, migrants as a group or by subgroups (old Europeans, new Europeans, Chinese, Mexicans and Central Americans, or Rest of the World) are incarcerated at lower rates

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Postdocs on industrial policy at Columbia University www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Please spread far and wide: we (Johns Hopkins SAIS) are looking for an assistant professor in international macro. Come work with our amazing group of economists (and beyond), in our wonderful new building right at the heart of Washington, DC! apply.interfolio.com/159423

Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC, with Capitol building in the background.

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Maybe an example of negativity bias - there is a massive literature (deservedly so) on India’s missing women, but very little on the recent normalization of the sex ratio www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Some announcements related to admissions to our PhD program @UVAEcon! Please see full thread below for updated information on application deadlines, application fee waivers, and TOEFL waivers. All information is also available on our updated website, economics.virginia.edu/graduate 1/n

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Graduate | Department of Economics

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Application fees should not deter you from applying to our PhD program @UVAEcon! Waivers are available for US and international applicants. US applicants please see: graddiversity.virginia.edu/application-.... Internationals from countries below get automatic waivers!

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Since my co-authors Paul and Karthik are not on this site, it's up to me to point folks to this wonderful piece by Pramit Bhattacharya on the impact of India's workfare program (NREGS) on the rural economy, drawing on our recently published Econometrica article www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/the-...

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The welfare programme economists loved to hate

Unlike several populist schemes that disproportionately benefit rural elites, MGNREGS reaches precisely those who need the State’s help the most.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

617 of 1700 IZA fellows have signed this letter, including Nobel Prize and Clark Award winners If you are a fellow who loves the network and has not signed, please understand the status quo is not an option if Falk takes over, 1/3 of the fellows are gone The network you value is gone

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Hi Everyone! New job ⚠️ alert for UVA| Batten. We are looking for a *Full* or Associate Professor with specialty in Health Economics. Deadline: December 9, 2023 More information at apply.interfolio.com/135055 Feel free to email me questions and help me spread widely!

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

🆕 Improving the payment infrastructure for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme raised incomes — mostly through increases in non-programme earnings. Today on VoxDev, Karthik Muralidharan, Paul Niehaus & @sandipz.bsky.social outline their research in #India: voxdev.org/topic/public...

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Reforming India’s public works scheme raised incomes

Improving the payment infrastructure for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme raised incomes — mostly through increases in non-programme earnings

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 23/10/2023

I have a PhD and consider myself a fairly sophisticated user of technology, but I have failed after multiple attempts to access the academic readiness results that my kids' school district has allegedly placed online. There's got to be a better way.

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

We're hiring "bigly" @UVAEcon ! At the senior chair level (any field), and junior level in both micro and macro. So at least 3 (hopefully, possibly more) hires, + our friends across the street @UVABatten hiring too! Please apply: aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

The World Bank is hiring again this year on the junior market. Both the research group (DECRG) and impact evaluation group (DIME) are hiring, with separate applications: DECRG: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... DIME: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

For econ JMCs: We're hiring one-year postdocs, aimed at those who accept a faculty position and are able to defer start to Fall 2025. No teaching obligations. (The grad student migration here isn't far along, it seems, but please pass along to JMCs you know.) www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

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Heidi L. Williams @heidiwilliams.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Paul Niehaus + Pierre Azoulay are incredibly inspiring mentors, researchers, and individuals -- I couldn't recommend this J-PAL/MIT Sloan post-doc in the economics of innovation / metascience more highly as an invaluable opportunity to work with and learn from them. aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Ok i clearly don't know how to thread or link or anything on this site... oh well...

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Lots of caveats: these are all my opinions, I am just starting out, YMMV on submissions, etc. But I’m very much hoping that many of you will choose to look beyond traditional economics outlets and send your excellent papers to Science n/n

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

If I were more generous/not already overwhelmed, I would offer to give advice on suitability for individual papers. However, it is easy to submit – there is no fee, and the process is fast! So instead of agonizing over whether you should, just go ahead and send it in 10/n

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

On “how”: Science will let you submit your paper written in economics style. And your reviewers will be economists expecting high technical standards. However, it might be worth writing the introduction to highlight the quality and importance to non-economists too 9/n

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

So ask yourself: Is it an “important” paper that will have an impact not just on research but beyond? Will it interest economists as well as non-economists? Can the results be clearly explained without relying on too much jargon? 8/n

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Importantly, though, they will often consult other editors (possibly even farther from the economics field) at Science before they make these decisions. This has a bearing on what types of papers you should submit. 7/n

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

The professional editors make all actual decisions on the papers – whether to send to BoRE, whether to send to review after BoRE advice, whether to proceed to R&R based on reviewer comments, and whether to accept for publication 6/n

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

[For example, the excellent new social science editor Ekeoma Uzogara is a psychologist.] So they rely on the BoRE for advice, mainly on whether to send papers out to review and to find reviewers. 5/n

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Science has professional editors – i.e. their full-time job is at Science, not at a university. They are smart people with PhDs, who are very good at their jobs in identifying and publishing important and high-quality research, but may not necessarily be experts in *your* field 4/n

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Before answering the other questions, it is important to understand the editorial process at Science, which is a bit different than the process at most economics journals (at least based on my experience at JPUBE and conversations with other editors) 3/n

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Answering “why” is easy: your paper will get more eyeballs – literally orders of magnitude more – if it is published in Science than in even the very top economics journals. And the process is much faster than most economics journals, so you won’t lose much time 2/n

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Some news: I have joined the Board of Reviewing Editors (BoRE) at Science. Part of the remit is to encourage more high-quality economics submissions. So here’s a long-ish thread on why, what, and how you should submit to Science, as well as some details on the editorial process 1/n

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

"Please explain this gap in your resume." "I'm not sure how to fix it in LaTeX."

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Six questions with Ted Miguel: I interview @tedmiguel.bsky.social about his views on whether first-year undergrads are useful, on having his worm work overcritiqued, on whether to do a long-term follow up, why more people work in Kenya than DRC, and more. blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...

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