Abhradeep Maiti
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Abhradeep Maiti
@maiti.bsky.social
Economics Professor at IIM Kashipur | Labor and Transportation Economics

www.abhradeepmaiti.com
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January 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I forgot from whom in my feed I got this from, but anyway, this network analyzer is crazy efficient. It gives you ideas for accounts to follow based on your own followees. I just added 50 accounts or so.

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Bluesky Network Analyzer
Find accounts that you don't follow (yet) but are followed by lots of accounts that you do follow.
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November 18, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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In 2023, Harvard Business School suspended a star professor over charges of research misconduct.

As it happens, one of her papers also had funny data from a *different* B-school superstar -- a "mad, fraudulent unicorn,” per @jamesheathers.bsky.social... (1/3)

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Fraudulent Science of Success
Business schools are in the grips of a scandal that threatens to undermine their most influential research—and the credibility of an entire field.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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In the same issue of EJ, both RD designs.

#1: better middle schools negatively affect GPA, graduation, academic vs vocational programs, and aspirations for marginal students.

#2: better high schools positively affect human capital accumulation and mental health for marginal students.

🤷 #Econsky
October 2, 2023 at 10:06 AM
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This is an RCT of a cash grant and training program targeting women in Tunisia. One of the key findings is that the program stimulated women's income-generating activities, but only when partners were NOT involved in the training. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With or without him? Experimental evidence on cash grants and gender-sensitive trainings in Tunisia
Is it possible to stimulate women’s income-generating activities by relaxing their financial and human capital constraints? Does involving husbands he…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 21, 2023 at 7:27 PM
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So, I started to build this feed

It’s available here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

To be included, please fill this form: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Repost appreciated!
Who is interested by a "Popular posts by economists" feed?
September 20, 2023 at 5:04 PM
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Excited to have this paper in print! "The Lost Generation? Labor Market Outcomes for Post-Great Recession Entrants"

It is now old enough that it is already time to update the results...
September 20, 2023 at 8:03 PM
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If you are a fan of IPUMS Global Health data like IPUMS-DHS be sure to check out IPUMS-MICS. The extract system has over 900 variables from 88 countries, drawn from over 200 samples and 1000+ datasets! mics.ipums.org/mics/

Please share widely.
September 19, 2023 at 8:21 PM
Glad to be on this site. Thanks @hesss.bsky.social for the invite.
September 19, 2023 at 11:47 PM