Vaidehi
vaidehitandel.bsky.social
Vaidehi
@vaidehitandel.bsky.social
Economist. Lecturer (Urban Economics and Real Estate), University of Manchester. I learn about cities.
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📢Where and How to Build 1.5 million homes in Britain?
New research report + micro-neighbourhood level mapping tool with @nikdatta.bsky.social uses 20 billion housing searches to map demand
Map wheretobuild.warwick.ac.uk
Research report + 350 customised LA reports: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.
October 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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One Battle After Another, a Thomas Pynchon adaptation that Paul Thomas Anderson has dreamed of making for decades, is his first real action movie, a raunchy, funny, pulse-pounding thriller w/ Leo DiCaprio as a burnout revolutionary in a fascist dystopia that's all too real.
slate.com/culture/2025...
The Movie of the Year Is Here
Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie is a masterpiece years in the making that’s somehow arrived right on time.
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September 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Real Estate Regulatory Authority was introduced in 2016 to bring transparency in the Indian real estate

What was its impact on outcomes? We answer this question in our new @jpube.bsky.social‬ paper "Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons?"
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Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India
What is the impact of mandatory disclosures of quality on market outcomes? Does the impact differ across income groups due to a difference in abilitie…
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June 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India"

By @vaidehitandel.bsky.social, @gandhisahil.bsky.social, Anupam Nanda, & Nandini Agnihotri

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#econsky #publiceconomics #HousingMarket
June 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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On India Inside Out:

"In some ways, the fallout of the Pahalgam attack has meant that the hyphen is once again hovering over India. If Operation Sindoor does indeed establish the deterrence India has long sought, then it may well be shot down."

rohanvenkat.substack.com/p/the-hyphen...
May 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad's Economics Area seeks faculty applications at Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor levels. Applications in Macroeconomics, Industrial Organization, Econometrics and Law and Economics particularly appreciated.

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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - February 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
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April 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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#econsky next talk in the Indian economy virtual seminar is by @vaidehitandel.bsky.social (Manchester) on flooding and housing prices in Mumbai. @aradhyasood.bsky.social (UofT) will discuss. Please see registration details below.
March 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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This year, even before the onset of peak #summer, #Mumbai is experiencing high temperatures. Temperatures are likely to exceed 38 degrees – 5 degrees higher than average.

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Experts tell Tabassum Barnagarwala how opening parks can keep heat-related illnesses at bay.
March 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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The Cubbon Park Secret Santa thing is such a New India story, it feels faintly unreal. A bunch of upper middle class Indians trying to utilise public space with a genteel activity (reading in the park!) -> they announce a Secret Santa -> the park wardens think it’s some kind of sale ->
December 24, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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Office conversions taking off:

• 63 conversion projects in 2023
• 73 completed this year
• 309 planned or under way, 3/4 office -> resi
• 38k units in works
• half of $1.12b in Manhattan office purchases were for conversions
• 12% of Cleveland office space is converting

www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Office Conversions Find New Life After Property Values Plunge
Developer efforts to convert emptying office towers into residential buildings have largely gone nowhere. That may finally be changing.
www.wsj.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Constructing influence: Political turnover reveals quid pro quo arrangements in Mumbai’s real estate.

Today on VoxDev, Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi & Alex Tabarrok outline their research on the politician-developer nexus in #India: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...
Constructing influence: Political turnover reveals quid pro quo arrangements in Mumbai’s real esta...
Political party turnover in a local election increased completion times of real estate projects in Mumbai
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November 30, 2023 at 9:09 AM