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Sarthak Joshi

@sarthakjoshi.bsky.social

Economics PhD student at the University of Warwick On the academic job market 2024/25 Website: sites.google.com/view/sjoshi/home

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Sarthak Joshi @sarthakjoshi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Now with a working link! docs.iza.org/dp17450.pdf

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Sarthak Joshi @sarthakjoshi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

👉 Which Policies Can Mitigate Backlash? 4️⃣Reframing the same program as a “Family and Community Program” instead of a “Women’s Empowerment Program” boosted support. See the draft for a lot more! 🔗https://docs.iza.org/dp17450.pdf Comments welcome! 6/6

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Sarthak Joshi @sarthakjoshi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🔁In round 2, men were placed at the receiving end. - 18% paid money to hide their household's involvement in empowerment programs. - Men who hid were more likely to have penalized empowered women in round 1. 3️⃣Social image concerns are likely a key driver of male backlash 5/6

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Sarthak Joshi @sarthakjoshi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

👉 What Drives Backlash? Using separate treatment arms, we study backlash under different conditions, including: - men's loss of relative status - men's loss of control over resources. 2️⃣Backlash occurs regardless of how empowerment is achieved. 4/6

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Sarthak Joshi @sarthakjoshi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

👉 Measuring Backlash Ethically - Our study paired 1,007 men in Bihar with an anonymous female partner. - In a one-shot game, men decide whether to financially penalise their partner at a cost. 1️⃣ Empowered women are penalised 2X of an otherwise identical control (17% vs 8%).

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Sarthak Joshi @sarthakjoshi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

👉 Backlash is widespread yet understudied 🔍 We reviewed 20 years of studies on female empowerment programs in top economics journals. - Only 26% collected data on potential male backlash. - When measured, it was identified in some form in 40% of programs (!)🚨 2/6

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Sarthak Joshi @sarthakjoshi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🚨New WP Alert!🚨 When women become empowered, some men retaliate. Why? Which policies can mitigate this? We investigate male backlash in response to female empowerment in rural India (with @ccullen.bsky.social , Vecci, & Talbot-Jones). 🔗https://docs.iza.org/dp17450.pdf #EconSky 🧵👇 1/6

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