Abhi Moulick
moulick.bsky.social
Abhi Moulick
@moulick.bsky.social
Social Scientist
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🚨New paper alert!🚨

Women are less likely to enter competitions than men—even when equally qualified. But telling them this can change behavior.

📈 In a field experiment on a job application platform, we found that highlighting this gender gap increased the # of job apps women submitted by ~20%.
March 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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In the latest #PlatformPapers blog Manav Raj explores the effects of adding competitors in digital platforms. In the context of #Spotify he finds that when a major artist releases an album, related artists see their listenership rise by up to 3% and their overall popularity increase by 1–2%.
Demand Spillovers in Digital Platforms
When it comes to adding competitors, can more be merrier?
platformpapers.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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A golden age not only for antibiotics but also other drugs, and biomedicine broadly -- new paper on the links of this prolific era to the WW2 research effort (& the limits to those links) coming shortly.

Lots to think about in the way of possible parallels in the aftermath of Covid and OWS.
December 24, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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🎉 Thrilled to announce our new study in Leadership Quarterly: "The Choice of Control Variables in Empirical Management Research: How Causal Diagrams Can Inform the Decision."

Here’s why this matters for leadership and management research—a thread; 🧵👇
December 3, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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Mergers are followed by large and persistent increases in lobbying activity, both by individual firms and by industry trade associations, suggesting that firms with market power will also attempt to gain political power.

www.nber.org/papers/w33255
December 16, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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47. Green Innovation Under Pressure
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1Vzzl...
December 14, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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VCs
were 36% more likely to invest in a Black-founded startup in the year after the murder of George Floyd, and
the share of dollars to Black entrepreneurs grew by 43%.

But investment in Black-founded startups reverted to prior levels within two years.
www.nber.org/papers/w33227
December 12, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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8. Regulation-Driven Innovations: A Textual Analysis of U.S. Patents and Federal Regulations
Link: zhoudanxie.github.io/documents/wp...
December 6, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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2. A structural model of mentorship in startup accelerators: Matching, learning, and value creation
Link: www.mohaddesehheydarinejad.com/_files/ugd/f...
December 6, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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1/ New (short!) paper with @jmbenkert.bsky.social.

The question that we are interested in is this: when should you stop searching for an innovation?

Surprisingly (to us) the answer in our model is: never.

Link to the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.03227
December 5, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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❓ Do hiring strategies change in successive entrepreneurial stints?
📰 We study this question in a new paper recently published in Strategic Management Journal (joint work with Dario Pozzoli) and the answer is…
✅ Yes! The full paper can be found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/n)
December 4, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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Two years ago, under the exceptional guidance of editor Andrea Prencipe, we published the first version of what remains the paper I am most excited about. This project took a village, with over 20 subject-matter experts contributing valuable feedback: bit.ly/theoryserend...
December 3, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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The long and winding road to the development of the lithium ion battery by the excellent Brian Potter
www.construction-physics.com/p/how-we-got...
How We Got the Lithium-Ion Battery
It took decades of research, performed around the world, before a practical lithium-ion battery was possible.
www.construction-physics.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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Doug did a great job summarizing our new paper on entrepreneurial theorizing. Super excited this is out!
🚨New paper!🚨 Joint w/ @timott.bsky.social, we examine how entrepreneurs form complex mental models. Forthcoming in Strategy Science. 🧵
November 21, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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Why accounting matters: "We examine the real effects of mandatory social-responsibility disclosures, which require SEC-registered mine owners to include their mine-safety records in their financial reports." /n
The real effects of mandated information on social responsibility in financial reports: Evidence from mine-safety records
We examine the real effects of mandatory social-responsibility disclosures, which require SEC-registered mine owners to include their mine-safety reco…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 13, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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Why accounting matters: "Using the staggered introduction of 40 country-level regulations that mandate disclosure, I document that reporting E&S information relates to increased investment from institutional owners and has material effects on firms’ investment and financing decisions." /n
The Financially Material Effects of Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure
Complaints from institutional investors suggest that principles-based disclosure regimes that rely on financial materiality standards produce inadequate nonfinancial environmental and social (E&S) in...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 11, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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I'm on the job market this year!
I use novel econometric/ML methods to identify the effects of aggregate shock on heterogeneous agents.
Finding out more about my research: xueqingyang.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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Our new paper shows that men benefit from couples' long-distance joint moves more than women do, in both Germany and Sweden. Is this just b/c men are usually the main breadwinner? No, it's hard to explain the patterns we see w/o a gender norm prioritizing men's careers. www.nber.org/papers/w32970
September 23, 2024 at 6:43 PM