Hiring an RA for ongoing projects. Ideal position for someone looking to apply for a PhD. Please spread the word in your student network Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay Rashmi Barua Soumendu Sarkar Souvik Dutta Ashokankur D Yugank Goyal

Join us this Wednesday March 26 for for a virtual talk by Vaidehi Tandel (The University of Manchester) on flooding and housing prices in Mumbai. Aradhya Sood (University of Toronto) will discuss. Details attached. Please register here: gps-ucsd.zohobackstage.com/FloodingtheMar… #IndiaEconomy

Thanks to Rajat Kochhar , Sahil Gandhi , Vaidehi Tandel and Somik Lall , we have revised our flooding paper. nber.org/papers/w30137

We've updated our flood adaptation paper with VIIRS nightlights data (2012–2023), analysing ~9,500 cities across the world. We estimate flood damage and test key adaptation hypotheses low and high-income countries. Link: nber.org/papers/w30137 1/10

Our paper on ingroup bias in the Indian judiciary — we didn't find any — is finally out! This paper has one of the two best graphs I've ever made — on publication bias in the judicial bias literature. Black circles are prior studies on ingroup bias. Explanation in 🧵👇🏻

A website dedicated to Indian economists of note. That’s what Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, Arjun Jayadev, Prof Rama Gopal, Maria Bach and I have been working towards for the last 2 yrs. And it’s finally here! azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/distinguished-…

Fantastic paper in the Journal of Political Economy JPE titled "Of Cities and Slums" by Pedro Cavalcanti Ferreira, Alexander Monge-Naranjo and Luciene Torres de Mello Pereira journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

The research wing of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), CAFRAL is hiring, & is looking for urban & real estate economists. Glad that the field is becoming mainstream in India. Sam Asher Paul Novosad Arpit Gupta Anup Malani CAFRAL Vaidehi Tandel cafral.org.in/join-us-detail…

Last year we launched the Archives on India platform listing and mapping over 600 archives. The map has received over 150K views so far! We've added dozens of new additions to the database and continue to update this with new information. A must-see resource for history-buff!

this poetic recreation of allama iqbal's line from dil se.

An exciting opportunity to work with us... Nishith Prakash Raisa Sherif Ritam Chaurey #EconTwitter

New research by Shreya Bhattacharya & I as part of a larger project examining the effects of mandatory retirement ages in India on post-retirement outcomes: health, income & savings. Statewise retirement ages vary from 58-62, central govt is different; private sector too. 🧵🧵

Hype vs honesty: Why India’s real estate story is only half told – but fully sold India urgently needs transparent and regular real estate data – across home registrations, rentals, unsold inventory, housing prices and housing loans. Without this, the market remains dominated by

Thrilled to continue the young scholar series at the Ideas of India podcast Mercatus Center, where we invite academic job market candidates working on India to talk about their research. We have a handful of 30-min slots and they fill up within the first few days of announcement.

🆕 Reforming India’s housing market: How disclosure laws boosted efficiency Today on VoxDev, Vaidehi Tandel (The University of Manchester), Sahil Gandhi, Anupam Nanda & Nandini Agnihotri (WRI India) discuss the impact of mandatory disclosures in the Mumbai housing market: voxdev.org/topic/public-e…

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#econra #econtwitter 📢 I am hiring an RA based at J-PAL South Asia Mumbai/Pune India, for my joint work with #RaghavPandey on paralegal counseling for debt recovery cases. Job description and application link available here: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…

New paper in nature "We find that rainfall causes more than 8% of Mumbai’s deaths during the monsoon season, and that more than 80% of this burden is borne by slum residents." nature.com/articles/s4158… Sam Asher Paul Novosad Anup Malani Vaidehi Tandel