Sarthak Joshi
sarthakjoshi.bsky.social
Sarthak Joshi
@sarthakjoshi.bsky.social
Economics PhD student at the University of Warwick

On the academic job market 2024/25

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sjoshi/home
👉 What Drives Backlash?

Using separate treatment arms, we study backlash under different conditions, including:
- men's loss of relative status
- men's loss of control over resources.

2️⃣Backlash occurs regardless of how empowerment is achieved.

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👉 Measuring Backlash Ethically

- Our study paired 1,007 men in Bihar with an anonymous female partner.
- In a one-shot game, men decide whether to financially penalise their partner at a cost.

1️⃣ Empowered women are penalised 2X of an otherwise identical control (17% vs 8%).
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🚨New WP Alert!🚨

When women become empowered, some men retaliate. Why? Which policies can mitigate this?

We investigate male backlash in response to female empowerment in rural India (with @ccullen.bsky.social , Vecci, & Talbot-Jones).

🔗https://docs.iza.org/dp17450.pdf

#EconSky 🧵👇

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