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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Hurry Up! Last 3 Days of Submissions! If you havent already, please submit as soon as possible. Our much awaited 3rd edition of the Amitava Bose Memorial Annual Workshop will be held on 21-22 August 2026 in Kolkata at the IIM Calcutta campus. Like always, stellar speakers lined up! #IIMC #ABLEAP

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

#EconSky Call for Papers: Organizing this conference at IIM Calcutta in Spring 2026. Submit your best work - we promise to provide you with enough time for presentations and feedback and plenty of networking opportunities. Also, a good time to visit the city of Kolkata. ECRs particularly encouraged.

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Delighted that this paper is now accepted for publication at the #EuropeanJournalofPoliticalEconomy. Jt work w/ #ShivHastawala & #ElisaTaveras. We show that continued female reservation leads to lower corruption - suggesting that women political reservations show impacts with a lag.

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

The 2nd Amitava Bose Memorial Annual Workshop held at the IIM Calcutta campus on 11-12 July was a huge success. Brilliant talks by Dilip Mookherjee, Rohini Somanathan, Debraj Ray and Maitreesh Ghatak. Amazing presentations in the parallel sessions and some great networking in the hallways!!

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

#EconSky Delighted to announce the 2nd Amitava Bose Memorial Annual Workshop to be held at #IIM_Calcutta on 11-12 July 2025 in memory of Late Prof Amitava Bose. Stellar lineup of speakers for our special sessions but also a fantastic set of papers in parallel sessions.

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Thrilled to announce that I have joined the editorial board of the #JournalOfDevelopmentStudies . i hope to be able to meaningfully contribute to the brilliant journey of #JDS as a leading outlet of research in development studies not limited to development economics but also other social sciences.

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

#EconSky Inviting submissions to the Amitava Bose Memorial Annual Workshop in July at IIM Calcutta. 3 weeks to the submission deadline. Submit now!!

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Organizing this workshop in July. Consider submitting your work - great set of speakers - lovely campus in a vibrant city. Early monsoon is a great time to visit Kolkata and the beautiful and pristine IIM Calcutta campus!! Deadline: 25 May. Full papers only - all fields welcome.

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Contrary to most existing literature on null effects: using Indian data we show that access to electricity can in fact improve learning outcomes if the access is measured at HH level - allowing leveraging complementarities of inputs to the Educ Prod Fn. summary here: ideasforindia.in/topics/human...

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Lighting the path to learning: Can electricity boost children’s test scores?

When households gain access to electricity, children are more likely to be enrolled in school. But do they also perform better? Based on West Bengal’s universal household electrification programme and...

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

3 - how parties select candidates is not obvious. While winnability is often a factor - We show that winning by garnering support of elite voters may act as a symbol of excess popularity of the candidate and such candidates are less likely to be given an opportunity to re-contest despite winning.

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

2 - urbanization usually comes at a cost of higher pollution. We show that sustainable urbanization models through place based policies can increase economic development while reduce pollution- potentially through economies of scale in pollution abatement costs due to clustered approach.

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Looking fwd to an eventful summer of research. Focussed on readying drafts of 3 new papers which I am very excited about. 1- studying the perverse consequences of doorstep delivery of contraceptives. Such interventions relax access constraints but accentuates within household ideological conficts.

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This is amazing news. Congratulations Tarun - richly deserved!!

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Tarun Jain @hyderabadi-chai.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Excellent history of India's economic team in 1990s and 2000s. srajagopalan.substack.com/p/manmohan-s...

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Manmohan Singh: India's Finest Talent Scout

(1932-2024)

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

#EconSky New paper alert!! We revisit the motherhood penalty in the Indian labor market and show that mandated increase in paid maternity leaves affects contractual arrangements of employed mothers in the labor market. Now accepted at the #JournalOfDevelopmentStudies . Jt work with #SaheliBose.

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

#EconSky #HotOffThePress We experimentally estimate the labor mkt penalty for single mothers. While aggregate data shows that single moms have quite high LFPR - this masks the demand side discrimination which we uncover in our new #WP. Joint with #ShubhamOjha #RalitzaDimova

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

#EconSky organizing this doctoral conference in March. Submit your best work. Deadline in 15 days. Format: few papers, more discussion, plenty of networking.

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

#EconSky this may seem weird (or wil l it?)… what do you do if a co-author goes incommunicado on you for about a year? And I mean “incommunicado” literally - not responding to any communication from the other 2 co-authors. Any advice, suggestions, empathy etc appreciated!!

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

#EconSky Calling potential PhD applicants to join us for a rigorous PhD program. You will get guidance from some of the finest economists in India and work with a very enthusiastic faculty and peer group with cutting-edge research output. Financial Support available www.iimcal.ac.in/doctoral-pro...

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

May want to check this out from one of my advisees, Shiv Hastawala. Its a pretty good compilation: www.shivhastawala.com/resources

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Me trying to remember the name of the RA that did all analyses of a seminal paper that got me a $500,000 salary.

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Lois Miller @loismiller.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Just made the move from EconTwitter, so it's intro time! 👋 I'm a PhD candidate at UW-Madison. My research interests are in the economics of education and education policy (mostly higher ed), labor economics, and public economics. Oh, and a shameless plug that i am on the job market this year 😉

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Sakshi Bhardwaj @sakshibhardwaj.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Hello #EconSky I am a Ph.D. Economics Candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am an applied Microeconomist and work in Labor and Public Economics. You can learn more about me at sakshib.com

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Somdeep Chatterjee @somdeepc.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Hi #EconSky - time for my intro. I am a development economist working on topics in education, labor, gender and healthcare. Also have interests in political economy, particularly voting and electoral competition. I am working as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

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