Ashwini Deshpande
@ashwinideshpande.bsky.social
Econ, Ashoka U, India
With @darrickhamilton.bsky.social at @nber.org conference on race and stratification
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
With @darrickhamilton.bsky.social at @nber.org conference on race and stratification
📣📣 new paper alert 🔔 50 days free access to new paper w Rajesh Ramachandran at @monashuniversity.bsky.social "Discriminatory social norms & early childhood development". How stigmatising caste norms, esp untouchability, affects childhood stunting adversely.
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Discriminatory social norms and early childhood development
This study explores caste-based disparities in childhood stunting in India, focusing on the role of caste-based practices. Using data from the Nationa…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
📣📣 new paper alert 🔔 50 days free access to new paper w Rajesh Ramachandran at @monashuniversity.bsky.social "Discriminatory social norms & early childhood development". How stigmatising caste norms, esp untouchability, affects childhood stunting adversely.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Some photos from a recent visit to #princeton Centre for Global India. It was really nice of Avinash Dixit to come to campus just to meet me 😊 Thanks to Tanushree Goyal for all the warm hospitality 🥰
April 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Some photos from a recent visit to #princeton Centre for Global India. It was really nice of Avinash Dixit to come to campus just to meet me 😊 Thanks to Tanushree Goyal for all the warm hospitality 🥰
On Monday at Princeton. Trying to unpack the puzzle of India's low female labour force participation (the recent rise notwithstanding). (What's demand got to do with it? 🤔) @seema.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
On Monday at Princeton. Trying to unpack the puzzle of India's low female labour force participation (the recent rise notwithstanding). (What's demand got to do with it? 🤔) @seema.bsky.social
It was wonderful to be a small part of this exciting @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social
project!
project!
2025 marks 35 years since the Washington Consensus. What should today's policy priorities be and how can they be implemented?
📕 Professor Andrés Velasco and Tim Besley have co-edited a new book with @lsepress.bsky.social coming out in Autumn 2025 on this topic.
Event: www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-pu...
📕 Professor Andrés Velasco and Tim Besley have co-edited a new book with @lsepress.bsky.social coming out in Autumn 2025 on this topic.
Event: www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-pu...
Shaping a 21st Century Policy Consensus: Upcoming book co-edited by Andrés Velasco and Tim Besley
YouTube video by LSE School of Public Policy
youtube.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It was wonderful to be a small part of this exciting @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social
project!
project!
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Reposted by Ashwini Deshpande
Excellent discussion about tariffs and industrial policy between @drodrik.bsky.social and @martinsandbu.ft.com!
Rodrik talks about Trump’s tariffs as an ineffective Swiss army knife to industrial policy. I would specify that it is a one-blade army knife.
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Rodrik talks about Trump’s tariffs as an ineffective Swiss army knife to industrial policy. I would specify that it is a one-blade army knife.
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Making sense of Trump's tariffs. With Dani Rodrik
Podcast Episode · The Economics Show · 2025-02-06 · 36m
podcasts.apple.com
February 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Excellent discussion about tariffs and industrial policy between @drodrik.bsky.social and @martinsandbu.ft.com!
Rodrik talks about Trump’s tariffs as an ineffective Swiss army knife to industrial policy. I would specify that it is a one-blade army knife.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
Rodrik talks about Trump’s tariffs as an ineffective Swiss army knife to industrial policy. I would specify that it is a one-blade army knife.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
Love it when I get purple first 😎
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February 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Love it when I get purple first 😎
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What happens when women are denied a wanted abortion?
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In the short run, their risk of death rises.
In the long run, they have...
-more health issues,
-lower education/labor-force participation, and
-higher rates of single motherhood, poverty, and reliance on government assistance
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In the short run, their risk of death rises.
In the long run, they have...
-more health issues,
-lower education/labor-force participation, and
-higher rates of single motherhood, poverty, and reliance on government assistance
January 31, 2025 at 1:13 AM
What happens when women are denied a wanted abortion?
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In the short run, their risk of death rises.
In the long run, they have...
-more health issues,
-lower education/labor-force participation, and
-higher rates of single motherhood, poverty, and reliance on government assistance
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In the short run, their risk of death rises.
In the long run, they have...
-more health issues,
-lower education/labor-force participation, and
-higher rates of single motherhood, poverty, and reliance on government assistance
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"The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children Get access Arrow"
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The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children*
Abstract. This paper examines the impact of denying a wanted abortion on women and children in Colombia using high-quality administrative microdata and cre
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January 31, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children Get access Arrow"
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My take in the IndianExpress today on the Larsen and Toubro 90-hour work week controversy. Instead of glorifying burnout, we need to focus on more sustainable work schedules, fair compensation and genuine equity.
January 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
My take in the IndianExpress today on the Larsen and Toubro 90-hour work week controversy. Instead of glorifying burnout, we need to focus on more sustainable work schedules, fair compensation and genuine equity.
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🆕 Can political representation boost forest conservation?
Today on VoxDev, @saadgulzar.bsky.social, @apoorvalal.com & @benpasquale.bsky.social explore how decentralising power in India impacted forest conservation: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
Today on VoxDev, @saadgulzar.bsky.social, @apoorvalal.com & @benpasquale.bsky.social explore how decentralising power in India impacted forest conservation: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
Can political representation boost forest conservation?
Despite fears that devolving control over forest resources to local communities may accelerate deforestation and worsen the climate crisis, the large-scale transfer of political power to India’s histo...
voxdev.org
January 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
🆕 Can political representation boost forest conservation?
Today on VoxDev, @saadgulzar.bsky.social, @apoorvalal.com & @benpasquale.bsky.social explore how decentralising power in India impacted forest conservation: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
Today on VoxDev, @saadgulzar.bsky.social, @apoorvalal.com & @benpasquale.bsky.social explore how decentralising power in India impacted forest conservation: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
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"The Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals" (w/ E Aigner and J Greenspon)--a much revised and updated version now forthcoming at World Development. (Incidentally, my very first academic publication was in that same journal back in 1981!) drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/publications...
The Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals
Aigner E, Greenspon J, Rodrik D. The Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals. 2025.
drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu
January 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"The Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals" (w/ E Aigner and J Greenspon)--a much revised and updated version now forthcoming at World Development. (Incidentally, my very first academic publication was in that same journal back in 1981!) drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/publications...
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How did you do in Connections today? Players must select four groups of four words without making more than three mistakes. Play here: nyti.ms/3B7faPM
January 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Frightening!
On grooming gangs, mafia bosses and Greenland - latest column is on Trump-Musk www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump and his henchman Musk treat America’s oldest allies as enemies. Britain can’t face that threat alone | Jonathan Freedland
The president-elect’s hostility towards other democracies is already clear. There will be no special relationship with him: we should look to Europe, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Frightening!
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“In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy,” Hitler destroyed “a constitutional republic through constitutional means,” writes Timothy W. Ryback. Read about how Hitler overcame democracy in just 53 days:
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
www.theatlantic.com
January 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy,” Hitler destroyed “a constitutional republic through constitutional means,” writes Timothy W. Ryback. Read about how Hitler overcame democracy in just 53 days:
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The Getty Center, one of Los Angeles’s most renowned art museums, is now squarely in the mandatory evacuation zone as the Palisades fire’s footprint has grown. An active fire is about a half mile away, but the blaze is not threatening the museum’s main buildings. nyti.ms/3PwJWVC
January 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The Getty Center, one of Los Angeles’s most renowned art museums, is now squarely in the mandatory evacuation zone as the Palisades fire’s footprint has grown. An active fire is about a half mile away, but the blaze is not threatening the museum’s main buildings. nyti.ms/3PwJWVC
Farm to table: freshly harvested kumquats converted to delish marmalade. Joys of #gardening & fresh #produce
January 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Farm to table: freshly harvested kumquats converted to delish marmalade. Joys of #gardening & fresh #produce
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Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States.
“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
Art Spiegelman Won’t Shrink Back From Controversy
The artist has illustrated more than one contentious New Yorker cover in his career, chronicled in a new film, and his next project will be no less gutsy.
hyperallergic.com
December 28, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States.
“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
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I like a lot of figures in the paper, but this figure showing the wage effects across the wage distribution is one of my favorite.
Those at the bottom 10% of the wage distribution see the largest gains.
Those at the bottom 10% of the wage distribution see the largest gains.
December 29, 2024 at 4:35 AM
I like a lot of figures in the paper, but this figure showing the wage effects across the wage distribution is one of my favorite.
Those at the bottom 10% of the wage distribution see the largest gains.
Those at the bottom 10% of the wage distribution see the largest gains.
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If only there were a study using a higher education expasion to examine whether encouraging students to pursue affordable higher ed boosts their income and enables them to pursue higher paid jobs.
December 29, 2024 at 3:53 AM
If only there were a study using a higher education expasion to examine whether encouraging students to pursue affordable higher ed boosts their income and enables them to pursue higher paid jobs.
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We’ve lost a great man. The economic reforms led by Manmohan Singh lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, and gave them livelihoods, dignity— and hope. And by all accounts, he remained empathetic, humble, thoughtful, and gentle to the very end.
Breaking News: Manmohan Singh, a former prime minister of India who helped transform the country’s economy, died at 92.
Manmohan Singh, Indian Premier Who Spurred Economic Boom, Dies at 92
The country’s first Sikh prime minister, he introduced free-market reforms that turned India into an economic powerhouse and sought reconciliation with Pakistan.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2024 at 7:12 PM
We’ve lost a great man. The economic reforms led by Manmohan Singh lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, and gave them livelihoods, dignity— and hope. And by all accounts, he remained empathetic, humble, thoughtful, and gentle to the very end.
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Amazing pioneer of trade and industrial reforms in India. The 1991 reforms changed the trajectory of India's economy & the course of history, in many ways he was the Deng Xiaoping of India....
Manmohan Singh, Indian Premier Behind Economic Changes, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...
Manmohan Singh, Indian Premier Behind Economic Changes, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...
Manmohan Singh, Indian Premier Behind Economic Changes, Dies at 92
The country’s first Sikh prime minister, he introduced free-market reforms that turned India into an economic powerhouse. He signed a nuclear deal with Washington and sought reconciliation with Pakist...
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Amazing pioneer of trade and industrial reforms in India. The 1991 reforms changed the trajectory of India's economy & the course of history, in many ways he was the Deng Xiaoping of India....
Manmohan Singh, Indian Premier Behind Economic Changes, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...
Manmohan Singh, Indian Premier Behind Economic Changes, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...
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I have moved my open textbook on inequality research to a new address:
https://maxkasy.github.io/inequalityresearch/
(The textbook has not been updated recently, but hopefully is still useful.)
https://maxkasy.github.io/inequalityresearch/
(The textbook has not been updated recently, but hopefully is still useful.)
December 27, 2024 at 2:31 PM
I have moved my open textbook on inequality research to a new address:
https://maxkasy.github.io/inequalityresearch/
(The textbook has not been updated recently, but hopefully is still useful.)
https://maxkasy.github.io/inequalityresearch/
(The textbook has not been updated recently, but hopefully is still useful.)