Anirudh Tagat
@inhouseconomist.bsky.social
www.anirudhtagat.com
Research Author, Dept of Economics, Monk Prayogshala. Research in behavioural and development economics in India. Teach econ at NMIMS and Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics, Mumbai, India. PhD Econ IITB/Monash | MSc Econ Warwick
Research Author, Dept of Economics, Monk Prayogshala. Research in behavioural and development economics in India. Teach econ at NMIMS and Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics, Mumbai, India. PhD Econ IITB/Monash | MSc Econ Warwick
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Attending the afternoon talks at #BREW #ESA conference in MDI Gurgaon! Earlier, heard a talk by Divyanshu Jain (IIM Ahmedabad) on math complexity and gender differences in standardized tests in India. Now, Anurag Kakkar (Hansraj College) is discussing role of peer networks in attainment.
December 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Dr. Anirudh Tagat, Research Author at Monk Prayogshala, conducted an engaging half-day online session on “Doing Research: Practical Considerations for Field-Based Research” for the faculty and doctoral researchers of Mahatma Education Society’s Night Degree College.
@inhouseconomist.bsky.social
@inhouseconomist.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Dr. Anirudh Tagat, Research Author at Monk Prayogshala, conducted an engaging half-day online session on “Doing Research: Practical Considerations for Field-Based Research” for the faculty and doctoral researchers of Mahatma Education Society’s Night Degree College.
@inhouseconomist.bsky.social
@inhouseconomist.bsky.social
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FWIW at Unjournal.org we
1. Prioritize research in terms of its potential for impact (see coda.io/d/Public-Dat...)
2. Commission public, expert, evaluations of this research, asking for reports & ratings across several criteria, including Relevance/Usefulness
1. Prioritize research in terms of its potential for impact (see coda.io/d/Public-Dat...)
2. Commission public, expert, evaluations of this research, asking for reports & ratings across several criteria, including Relevance/Usefulness
December 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
FWIW at Unjournal.org we
1. Prioritize research in terms of its potential for impact (see coda.io/d/Public-Dat...)
2. Commission public, expert, evaluations of this research, asking for reports & ratings across several criteria, including Relevance/Usefulness
1. Prioritize research in terms of its potential for impact (see coda.io/d/Public-Dat...)
2. Commission public, expert, evaluations of this research, asking for reports & ratings across several criteria, including Relevance/Usefulness
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Hey cognitive psychologists. When does this mean we will no longer be able to ask people to draw a US penny? Always great to recreate the classic study by Nickerson & Adams (1979) showing that people can't recall an object they've looked at hundreds or thousands of times.
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Hey cognitive psychologists. When does this mean we will no longer be able to ask people to draw a US penny? Always great to recreate the classic study by Nickerson & Adams (1979) showing that people can't recall an object they've looked at hundreds or thousands of times.
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📣 #callforparticipants
How do you perceive different crimes based on their creativity and morality?
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How do you perceive different crimes based on their creativity and morality?
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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
📣 #callforparticipants
How do you perceive different crimes based on their creativity and morality?
Participate in Monk Prayogshala's study and stand a chance to win one out of 10 Amazon vouchers worth ₹750 each!
Join now: buff.ly/oTtoFQ0
How do you perceive different crimes based on their creativity and morality?
Participate in Monk Prayogshala's study and stand a chance to win one out of 10 Amazon vouchers worth ₹750 each!
Join now: buff.ly/oTtoFQ0
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🚨 Are you a budding researcher eager to share your work and engage with critical feedback?
Be part of Monk Prayogshala’s Eleventh Annual Social Sciences Seminar — a space for fresh ideas, academic dialogue, and meaningful exchange!
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Be part of Monk Prayogshala’s Eleventh Annual Social Sciences Seminar — a space for fresh ideas, academic dialogue, and meaningful exchange!
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November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🚨 Are you a budding researcher eager to share your work and engage with critical feedback?
Be part of Monk Prayogshala’s Eleventh Annual Social Sciences Seminar — a space for fresh ideas, academic dialogue, and meaningful exchange!
Register here: buff.ly/zSZqBJm
Be part of Monk Prayogshala’s Eleventh Annual Social Sciences Seminar — a space for fresh ideas, academic dialogue, and meaningful exchange!
Register here: buff.ly/zSZqBJm
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Introducing our keynote speaker for the Eleventh Annual Seminar in Social Sciences – Dr. Sampada Karandikar! 🎙️
Join us on 22nd November, 2025!
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October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Introducing our keynote speaker for the Eleventh Annual Seminar in Social Sciences – Dr. Sampada Karandikar! 🎙️
Join us on 22nd November, 2025!
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📢Hansika Kapoor wrote a blog reviewing Episode 1 of Black Mirror Season 7, titled Subscribe to Survive, for FEMSPEC!
Read it here: www.femspec.org/post/black-m...
Read it here: www.femspec.org/post/black-m...
October 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
📢Hansika Kapoor wrote a blog reviewing Episode 1 of Black Mirror Season 7, titled Subscribe to Survive, for FEMSPEC!
Read it here: www.femspec.org/post/black-m...
Read it here: www.femspec.org/post/black-m...
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Innovation is at the center of economic growth. Congratulations to three who’ve taught us so much.
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October 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Innovation is at the center of economic growth. Congratulations to three who’ve taught us so much.
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📌#BlogAlert
Read Aastha Shah's “Never Heard Silence Quite This Loud: Psychology of Silence Across Cultures” in this week’s blog!
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Read Aastha Shah's “Never Heard Silence Quite This Loud: Psychology of Silence Across Cultures” in this week’s blog!
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💛 Support independent academic research in India!
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October 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
📌#BlogAlert
Read Aastha Shah's “Never Heard Silence Quite This Loud: Psychology of Silence Across Cultures” in this week’s blog!
Link: buff.ly/3YnjXhZ
💛 Support independent academic research in India!
🔖 Donate now: buff.ly/e3QVJyV
Read Aastha Shah's “Never Heard Silence Quite This Loud: Psychology of Silence Across Cultures” in this week’s blog!
Link: buff.ly/3YnjXhZ
💛 Support independent academic research in India!
🔖 Donate now: buff.ly/e3QVJyV
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I'm thrilled to announce my first publication, as well as my first APSR and RCT paper. I am thankful to everyone who contributed to improving this project. 🙏🙏
#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social -
Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India - https://cup.org/4mZR3Em
- @priyadarshi-amar.bsky.social, @sumitra.bsky.social, @simonchauchard.bsky.social & FLORIAN SICHART
#FirstView
Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India - https://cup.org/4mZR3Em
- @priyadarshi-amar.bsky.social, @sumitra.bsky.social, @simonchauchard.bsky.social & FLORIAN SICHART
#FirstView
October 10, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I'm thrilled to announce my first publication, as well as my first APSR and RCT paper. I am thankful to everyone who contributed to improving this project. 🙏🙏
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Important to celebrate the wins!
For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr
Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says
For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.
n.pr
October 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Important to celebrate the wins!
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**NEW STUDY ALERT**
Parents want to help their children succeed. But what if they don't know what they don't know?
Yet we've lacked a comprehensive, scalable tool to quickly assess what parents and educators know—and where their knowledge gaps lie. We have one now: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/artefa...
Parents want to help their children succeed. But what if they don't know what they don't know?
Yet we've lacked a comprehensive, scalable tool to quickly assess what parents and educators know—and where their knowledge gaps lie. We have one now: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/artefa...
Introducing The SPEAK: A Scalable Computer-Adaptive Tool to
Research shows responsive caregiving enhances children's brain development, with parental knowledge predicting positive behaviors and outcomes. However, knowledge varies widely across educational leve
ideas.repec.org
October 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
**NEW STUDY ALERT**
Parents want to help their children succeed. But what if they don't know what they don't know?
Yet we've lacked a comprehensive, scalable tool to quickly assess what parents and educators know—and where their knowledge gaps lie. We have one now: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/artefa...
Parents want to help their children succeed. But what if they don't know what they don't know?
Yet we've lacked a comprehensive, scalable tool to quickly assess what parents and educators know—and where their knowledge gaps lie. We have one now: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/artefa...
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Introducing our keynote speaker for the Eleventh Annual Seminar in Social Sciences – Dr. Sampada Karandikar! 🎙️
Join us on 22nd November, 2025!
Register here: buff.ly/zSZqBJm
#KeynoteSpeaker #SocialSciences #Research #Psychology #Seminar2025
Join us on 22nd November, 2025!
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October 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Introducing our keynote speaker for the Eleventh Annual Seminar in Social Sciences – Dr. Sampada Karandikar! 🎙️
Join us on 22nd November, 2025!
Register here: buff.ly/zSZqBJm
#KeynoteSpeaker #SocialSciences #Research #Psychology #Seminar2025
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Fascinating study, and very important for understanding how misinformation could spread. My colleagues @sarahrezaei.bsky.social studied something similar but in a different context: does generating misinformation lead to better discernment? The preprint is here:
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osf.io/xsk4p/resour...
October 9, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Fascinating study, and very important for understanding how misinformation could spread. My colleagues @sarahrezaei.bsky.social studied something similar but in a different context: does generating misinformation lead to better discernment? The preprint is here:
osf.io/xsk4p/resour...
osf.io/xsk4p/resour...
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📣 #callforparticipants
How do you perceive different crimes based on their creativity and morality?
Participate in Monk Prayogshala's study and stand a chance to win one out of 10 Amazon vouchers worth ₹750 each!
Join now: buff.ly/SlKT4U9
How do you perceive different crimes based on their creativity and morality?
Participate in Monk Prayogshala's study and stand a chance to win one out of 10 Amazon vouchers worth ₹750 each!
Join now: buff.ly/SlKT4U9
October 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
📣 #callforparticipants
How do you perceive different crimes based on their creativity and morality?
Participate in Monk Prayogshala's study and stand a chance to win one out of 10 Amazon vouchers worth ₹750 each!
Join now: buff.ly/SlKT4U9
How do you perceive different crimes based on their creativity and morality?
Participate in Monk Prayogshala's study and stand a chance to win one out of 10 Amazon vouchers worth ₹750 each!
Join now: buff.ly/SlKT4U9
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Tonight I learned that one of my heroes has died. I loved her and colleagues' "adventures" as a child and grew up to admire her scientific work for so many reasons. RIP Jane Goodall.
Jane Goodall, wildlife advocate and primate expert, dies at 91 - www.reuters.com/business/env...
Jane Goodall, wildlife advocate and primate expert, dies at 91 - www.reuters.com/business/env...
Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91
Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the institute she founded said.
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October 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Tonight I learned that one of my heroes has died. I loved her and colleagues' "adventures" as a child and grew up to admire her scientific work for so many reasons. RIP Jane Goodall.
Jane Goodall, wildlife advocate and primate expert, dies at 91 - www.reuters.com/business/env...
Jane Goodall, wildlife advocate and primate expert, dies at 91 - www.reuters.com/business/env...
Have you ever used PISA data as a cross-country dataset to measure education outcomes? Our latest paper that is a commentary on the use of PISA data, informed by an unlikely theory: context awareness in computer science. This was a fun paper to write since it opens up so many new areas!
📢 #PublicationAlert
Hansika Kapoor and @inhouseconomist.bsky.social co-author a new paper "The Importance of Context Awareness in PISA Creativity Data" (2025), now published in The Journal of Creative Behavior!
Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Hansika Kapoor and @inhouseconomist.bsky.social co-author a new paper "The Importance of Context Awareness in PISA Creativity Data" (2025), now published in The Journal of Creative Behavior!
Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
October 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Have you ever used PISA data as a cross-country dataset to measure education outcomes? Our latest paper that is a commentary on the use of PISA data, informed by an unlikely theory: context awareness in computer science. This was a fun paper to write since it opens up so many new areas!
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🎉 Monk Prayogshala Turns 14! 🎉
We’re proud to celebrate 14 incredible years of advancing academic research in India. A huge thank you to everyone who has supported us over the years! 🙌📚
Want to know more about our team and what we do?
Visit-www.monkprayogshala.in
We’re proud to celebrate 14 incredible years of advancing academic research in India. A huge thank you to everyone who has supported us over the years! 🙌📚
Want to know more about our team and what we do?
Visit-www.monkprayogshala.in
September 22, 2025 at 5:05 AM
🎉 Monk Prayogshala Turns 14! 🎉
We’re proud to celebrate 14 incredible years of advancing academic research in India. A huge thank you to everyone who has supported us over the years! 🙌📚
Want to know more about our team and what we do?
Visit-www.monkprayogshala.in
We’re proud to celebrate 14 incredible years of advancing academic research in India. A huge thank you to everyone who has supported us over the years! 🙌📚
Want to know more about our team and what we do?
Visit-www.monkprayogshala.in
Highly recommend this paper by Karthik Muralidharan and @singhabhi.bsky.social!
@inhouseconomist.bsky.social shares his take on Adapting for Scale: Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India — a study that looks at how personalized ed-tech tools are shaping student learning in Rajasthan.
🔗 Link: buff.ly/5tnaSN4
🔗 Link: buff.ly/5tnaSN4
September 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Highly recommend this paper by Karthik Muralidharan and @singhabhi.bsky.social!
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Love Brian Nosek's response to my Q on "fear of negative public evaluations" @ Unjournal & Lifecyclejournal
"I certainly understand the fear. I shared it myself until I had the experience of realizing that's how people advance their careers." -->
Love Brian Nosek's response to my Q on "fear of negative public evaluations" @ Unjournal & Lifecyclejournal
"I certainly understand the fear. I shared it myself until I had the experience of realizing that's how people advance their careers." -->
BITSS AM 2025: The Evolution of Research Transparency - Brian Nosek
Brian Nosek, Executive Director of the Center for Open Science, delivered the keynote presentation at the BITSS 2025 Annual Meeting. His…
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September 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
https://bit.ly/3Vvz4KN
Love Brian Nosek's response to my Q on "fear of negative public evaluations" @ Unjournal & Lifecyclejournal
"I certainly understand the fear. I shared it myself until I had the experience of realizing that's how people advance their careers." -->
Love Brian Nosek's response to my Q on "fear of negative public evaluations" @ Unjournal & Lifecyclejournal
"I certainly understand the fear. I shared it myself until I had the experience of realizing that's how people advance their careers." -->
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I totally missed that the #IgNobel prizes were awarded yesterday! My favorite one is probably the nutrition prize, for observing that rainbow lizards prefer quattro formaggi over other types of pizza.
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![NUTRITION PRIZE [NIGERIA, TOGO, ITALY, FRANCE]
Daniele Dendi, Gabriel H. Segniagbeto, Roger Meek, and Luca Luiselli, for studying the extent to which a certain kind of lizard chooses to eat certain kinds of pizza.
REFERENCE: “Opportunistic Foraging Strategy of Rainbow Lizards at a Seaside Resort in Togo,” Daniele Dendi, Gabriel H. Segniagbeto, Roger Meek, and Luca Luiselli, African Journal of Ecology, vol. 61, no. 1, 2023, pp. 226-227. <doi.org/10.1111/aje.13100>](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5muznqvsk4hath65gqiapmej/bafkreicfoorr4eawppl52qoc4m3xkojr73mz26hdovy55cesgjahl6jbuu@jpeg)
September 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I totally missed that the #IgNobel prizes were awarded yesterday! My favorite one is probably the nutrition prize, for observing that rainbow lizards prefer quattro formaggi over other types of pizza.
improbable.com/ig/winners/?...
improbable.com/ig/winners/?...
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Introducing our keynote speaker for the Eleventh Annual Seminar in Social Sciences – Dr. Sampada Karandikar! 🎙️
Join us on 22nd November, 2025!
Register here: buff.ly/zSZqBJm
Join us on 22nd November, 2025!
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September 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Introducing our keynote speaker for the Eleventh Annual Seminar in Social Sciences – Dr. Sampada Karandikar! 🎙️
Join us on 22nd November, 2025!
Register here: buff.ly/zSZqBJm
Join us on 22nd November, 2025!
Register here: buff.ly/zSZqBJm
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Now accepting applications for the PhD program in Health Policy and Administration at Penn State. We have specialty tracks in health economics, population health, and health care management and organization plus a dual title PhD program in HPA and Demography. #WeAre hhd.psu.edu/hpa/graduate....
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September 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Now accepting applications for the PhD program in Health Policy and Administration at Penn State. We have specialty tracks in health economics, population health, and health care management and organization plus a dual title PhD program in HPA and Demography. #WeAre hhd.psu.edu/hpa/graduate....