Aarushi Kalra
@chidiya.bsky.social
Economics PhD candidate at Brown || Digital Economies/ Development/ Political Economy || Cofounded Bahujan Economists || https://aarushirita.github.io/
new yorkers cant not vote for the guy explaining rank choice voting in hindi/urdu 😪
Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya.
Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.
Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.
June 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
new yorkers cant not vote for the guy explaining rank choice voting in hindi/urdu 😪
🚀 Calling all Master's & PhD students abroad! Join our Admission Abroad Mentorship Program (AAMP) as a mentor. Guide mentees through applications, review materials & provide support. Give back & help shape future Bahujan scholars! Form link: forms.gle/LUfET2Stzv2a...
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June 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🚀 Calling all Master's & PhD students abroad! Join our Admission Abroad Mentorship Program (AAMP) as a mentor. Guide mentees through applications, review materials & provide support. Give back & help shape future Bahujan scholars! Form link: forms.gle/LUfET2Stzv2a...
#Gradschool
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In case somebody missed this yesterday, while watching a political car-crash unfold:
"The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"
is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
"The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"
is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Means of Prediction
An eye-opening examination of how power—not technology—will define life with AI. AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms,…
press.uchicago.edu
June 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In case somebody missed this yesterday, while watching a political car-crash unfold:
"The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"
is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
"The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"
is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The WS on 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
- jointly held w/ UCLouvain, LCII,Telecom Paris, TSE, Uni Warsaw - just wrapped up.
Congratulations to @chidiya.bsky.social & @juliusgoedde.bsky.social - both won the Best Paper(s) Award 👏
🙏 to the local organizers @tse-fr.eu
ℹ️ www.digital-economics.org
- jointly held w/ UCLouvain, LCII,Telecom Paris, TSE, Uni Warsaw - just wrapped up.
Congratulations to @chidiya.bsky.social & @juliusgoedde.bsky.social - both won the Best Paper(s) Award 👏
🙏 to the local organizers @tse-fr.eu
ℹ️ www.digital-economics.org
May 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
The WS on 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
- jointly held w/ UCLouvain, LCII,Telecom Paris, TSE, Uni Warsaw - just wrapped up.
Congratulations to @chidiya.bsky.social & @juliusgoedde.bsky.social - both won the Best Paper(s) Award 👏
🙏 to the local organizers @tse-fr.eu
ℹ️ www.digital-economics.org
- jointly held w/ UCLouvain, LCII,Telecom Paris, TSE, Uni Warsaw - just wrapped up.
Congratulations to @chidiya.bsky.social & @juliusgoedde.bsky.social - both won the Best Paper(s) Award 👏
🙏 to the local organizers @tse-fr.eu
ℹ️ www.digital-economics.org
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I had an interesting experience yesterday, where my public-facing and scholarly worlds intersected, really collided. There were some fireworks.
Now I'm stuck in an airport on a layover, so I'm going to write about that experience. It happened at this talk at CSU Bakersfield #highered #academiclife
Now I'm stuck in an airport on a layover, so I'm going to write about that experience. It happened at this talk at CSU Bakersfield #highered #academiclife
April 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I had an interesting experience yesterday, where my public-facing and scholarly worlds intersected, really collided. There were some fireworks.
Now I'm stuck in an airport on a layover, so I'm going to write about that experience. It happened at this talk at CSU Bakersfield #highered #academiclife
Now I'm stuck in an airport on a layover, so I'm going to write about that experience. It happened at this talk at CSU Bakersfield #highered #academiclife
Is the pattern in TikTok blackouts... Ugh... Random?
January 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Is the pattern in TikTok blackouts... Ugh... Random?
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Second: Meta seriously weakened its hate speech standards in a way that makes all protected groups generally, and immigrants, women, and LGBTQ+ people specifically, much more vulnerable to abuse on the site. 🧵 5/11
January 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Second: Meta seriously weakened its hate speech standards in a way that makes all protected groups generally, and immigrants, women, and LGBTQ+ people specifically, much more vulnerable to abuse on the site. 🧵 5/11
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This article should be required reading for anyone commenting on the political effects of social media.
January 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This article should be required reading for anyone commenting on the political effects of social media.
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Here's a our new paper "The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment"
We analyze a long-running field experiment of online advertising.
We find no significant differences in valuations between users who see ads vs. those who don't.
www.nber.org/papers/w32846
We analyze a long-running field experiment of online advertising.
We find no significant differences in valuations between users who see ads vs. those who don't.
www.nber.org/papers/w32846
The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
November 19, 2024 at 6:24 AM
Here's a our new paper "The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment"
We analyze a long-running field experiment of online advertising.
We find no significant differences in valuations between users who see ads vs. those who don't.
www.nber.org/papers/w32846
We analyze a long-running field experiment of online advertising.
We find no significant differences in valuations between users who see ads vs. those who don't.
www.nber.org/papers/w32846
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"you'll be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits
The three spirits
December 24, 2024 at 1:36 PM
"you'll be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits
The three spirits
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Here's a great starter pack of economists working on AI.
Who else should be on this list?
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Who else should be on this list?
bsky.app/starter-pack...
December 1, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Here's a great starter pack of economists working on AI.
Who else should be on this list?
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Who else should be on this list?
bsky.app/starter-pack...
could not have written this post better myself: really appreciate it, @rajivsethi.bsky.social! As correctly pointed out, the hard question is whether diversification provides a way to moderate without censoring: the model-based counterfactuals show that partial diversification could be the answer.
New post on the demand and supply of hate, referencing work by @ursina.bsky.social @chidiya.bsky.social @afinetheorem.bsky.social @noupside.bsky.social (cc @instrumenthull.bsky.social)
open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...
open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...
The Demand and Supply of Hate
The steady drumbeat of social media posts on new research in economics picks up pace towards the end of the year, as interviews for faculty positions are scheduled and candidates try to draw attention...
open.substack.com
December 21, 2024 at 8:17 PM
could not have written this post better myself: really appreciate it, @rajivsethi.bsky.social! As correctly pointed out, the hard question is whether diversification provides a way to moderate without censoring: the model-based counterfactuals show that partial diversification could be the answer.
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Interesting experimental paper on online hate by @chidiya.bsky.social treatment group gets randomized feed instead of algo-curated, exposure to toxic content (TC) drops, engagement drops, search for TC rises, sharing of TC rises relative to exposure:
www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...
www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...
Can Social Media Algorithms be Regulated to Prevent Online Radicalization in Developing Countries?
We are excited to launch our Job Market Paper Series blog for 2024-2025, beginning with our very first blog post by Aarushi Kalra. Aarushi Kalra is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Brown Universi…
www.econthatmatters.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Interesting experimental paper on online hate by @chidiya.bsky.social treatment group gets randomized feed instead of algo-curated, exposure to toxic content (TC) drops, engagement drops, search for TC rises, sharing of TC rises relative to exposure:
www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...
www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...
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#eeac Day 12: @chidiya.bsky.social JMP "Hate in the Time of Algorithms: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment on Online Behavior” switches from algorithmic feed to random content on Indian TikTok-like platform. Great summary of findings here www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-... #econsky #econjmp
December 18, 2024 at 7:28 AM
#eeac Day 12: @chidiya.bsky.social JMP "Hate in the Time of Algorithms: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment on Online Behavior” switches from algorithmic feed to random content on Indian TikTok-like platform. Great summary of findings here www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-... #econsky #econjmp
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The ACLU gets *zero* funding from the government.
A bit disconcerting that the fellow tasked with reducing government funding doesn't know that.
A bit disconcerting that the fellow tasked with reducing government funding doesn't know that.
December 6, 2024 at 8:59 PM
The ACLU gets *zero* funding from the government.
A bit disconcerting that the fellow tasked with reducing government funding doesn't know that.
A bit disconcerting that the fellow tasked with reducing government funding doesn't know that.
Thrilled to share that my work on feed-ranking algorithms, based on a large-scale experiment I conducted with 5 million people in India, was recently featured on the Economics that really matters blog!
So excited for feedback from folks in this lovely space 🦚 www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...
So excited for feedback from folks in this lovely space 🦚 www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...
Can Social Media Algorithms be Regulated to Prevent Online Radicalization in Developing Countries?
We are excited to launch our Job Market Paper Series blog for 2024-2025, beginning with our very first blog post by Aarushi Kalra. Aarushi Kalra is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Brown Universi…
www.econthatmatters.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Thrilled to share that my work on feed-ranking algorithms, based on a large-scale experiment I conducted with 5 million people in India, was recently featured on the Economics that really matters blog!
So excited for feedback from folks in this lovely space 🦚 www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...
So excited for feedback from folks in this lovely space 🦚 www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...
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Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...
November 26, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...
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The composition of a lot of the economics starter packs alone on here was revelatory on the nature of 'homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks'...We can definitely do better as a field #Econsky
Papers authored by Black, Hispanic or Asian economists receive 5.1% to 9.6% fewer citations than those by White scholars.
The citation gap is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks (i.e., cite authors from own racial group).
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
The citation gap is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks (i.e., cite authors from own racial group).
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
November 26, 2024 at 6:38 PM
The composition of a lot of the economics starter packs alone on here was revelatory on the nature of 'homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks'...We can definitely do better as a field #Econsky
"By allowing people to mute content in fine-tuned and personalized ways, it reduces the incentive to mute people."
A very important insight! Would depend on whether the "Discover" algorithm is content based, in which case we still end up in very segregated echo-chambers.
<shameless plug for JMP>
A very important insight! Would depend on whether the "Discover" algorithm is content based, in which case we still end up in very segregated echo-chambers.
<shameless plug for JMP>
New post on Bluesky content moderation (cc: @noupside.bsky.social @nachristakis.bsky.social and @prossertj.bsky.social)
open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...
open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...
Content Moderation on Bluesky
The growth of Bluesky over the past couple of weeks has been spectacular. The app now has 3.5 million active daily users and more than 22 million total users. Based on downloads, it is currently the t...
open.substack.com
November 24, 2024 at 8:54 PM
"By allowing people to mute content in fine-tuned and personalized ways, it reduces the incentive to mute people."
A very important insight! Would depend on whether the "Discover" algorithm is content based, in which case we still end up in very segregated echo-chambers.
<shameless plug for JMP>
A very important insight! Would depend on whether the "Discover" algorithm is content based, in which case we still end up in very segregated echo-chambers.
<shameless plug for JMP>
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Next up: Aarushi Kalra (aarushirita.github.io), experimenter extraordinaire!
Aarushi works on development, political economy, and the digital platforms/AI. Her JMP studies a massive RCT run on one of India's largest social media platforms, which shut down the content personalization algorithm(!)
Aarushi works on development, political economy, and the digital platforms/AI. Her JMP studies a massive RCT run on one of India's largest social media platforms, which shut down the content personalization algorithm(!)
November 19, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Next up: Aarushi Kalra (aarushirita.github.io), experimenter extraordinaire!
Aarushi works on development, political economy, and the digital platforms/AI. Her JMP studies a massive RCT run on one of India's largest social media platforms, which shut down the content personalization algorithm(!)
Aarushi works on development, political economy, and the digital platforms/AI. Her JMP studies a massive RCT run on one of India's largest social media platforms, which shut down the content personalization algorithm(!)
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Massive experiment on India’s TikTok-like platform: Replacing personalized algorithms with randomized content reduced hate speech by 27%—but led to a 35% drop in platform usage. Toxic users adapted by sharing hate at higher rates. #econsky
Next up: Aarushi Kalra (aarushirita.github.io), experimenter extraordinaire!
Aarushi works on development, political economy, and the digital platforms/AI. Her JMP studies a massive RCT run on one of India's largest social media platforms, which shut down the content personalization algorithm(!)
Aarushi works on development, political economy, and the digital platforms/AI. Her JMP studies a massive RCT run on one of India's largest social media platforms, which shut down the content personalization algorithm(!)
November 19, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Massive experiment on India’s TikTok-like platform: Replacing personalized algorithms with randomized content reduced hate speech by 27%—but led to a 35% drop in platform usage. Toxic users adapted by sharing hate at higher rates. #econsky
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Great interview on Ideas for India Aarushi Kalra about her fascinating JMP. www.mercatus.org/ideasofindia...
Aarushi Kalra on Digital Polarization and Toxicity, Understanding User Behavior, Social Media Algorithms, and Platform Incentives
SHRUTI RAJAGOPALAN: Welcome to Ideas of India, a podcast
www.mercatus.org
November 14, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Great interview on Ideas for India Aarushi Kalra about her fascinating JMP. www.mercatus.org/ideasofindia...