Arkadev Ghosh (@arkdevghosh)

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Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh Sep 15, 2024

Our new field experiment (w/ @AnujitCh, @hmmlowe, @GarethNellis) shows how brief interactions with multiple outgroup members (broad contact) and longer interactions with a single one (deep contact) shape intergroup relations.

Paper: researchgate.net/publication/38…

www.researchgate.net (PDF) Learning About Outgroups: The Impact of Broad Versus Deep Interactions PDF | We hypothesize that broad contact, involving brief interactions with multiple outgroup members, and deep contact, meaning longer interactions with... | Find, read and cite all the research you...

Matt Lowe @hmmlowe Sep 14, 2024

Prejudice is often rooted in misperceptions: that the outgroup are lazy, unpatriotic, etc. Our new field experiment asks: to reduce misperceptions, is it better to become close with one outgroup member (deep contact), or to have brief encounters with many (broad contact)?

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Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh Jun 26

We have a new NBER working paper on how uncertainty about social-group membership shapes intergroup relations.

NBER Verified account @nberpubs Jun 26

Concealment of social-group membership between pairs of workers weakened intergroup relations by making them unsure of each other's identity and less able to interact authentically, from Anujit Chakraborty, @arkdevghosh, @hmmlowe, and Gareth Nellis nber.org/papers/w35364

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Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh Oct 22, 2025

New @VoxDev piece on our work (with @prerna394, @hmmlowe & Gareth Nellis) on how youth camps in India helped build social cohesion across religious lines.

Paper in @RevEconStudies: academic.oup.com/restud/advance…

academic.oup.com Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India Abstract. Non-family-based institutions for socializing young people may play a vital role in creating close-knit, inclusive communities. We study the pote

VoxDev @vox_dev Oct 22, 2025

🆕 How youth camps helped build social cohesion in India

Today on VoxDev w/ @arkdevghosh (@DukeEcon), @prerna394 (@ubcVSE), @hmmlowe (@ubcVSE) & Gareth Nellis (@UCSDPoliSci): voxdev.org/topic/institut…
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Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh Aug 22, 2025

My job market paper is done :)

Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India | Journal of Political Economy journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

www.journals.uchicago.edu Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India | Journal of... This paper implements a field experiment in India to study whether the effects of religious diversity on productivity and attitudes depend on a firm’s production technology. I randomly assigned Hindu...

Arkadev Ghosh @arkdevghosh May 23, 2025

We should celebrate when we find no evidence of in-group bias.

The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) @restatjournal May 23, 2025

In India, judge in-group bias by gender, religion, & caste is minimal. Just Accepted new paper by @ellliottt, @thesamasher, @AditiBhowmick18, S. Bhupatiraju, D. Chen, @gochristoph, @paulnovosad, @BilalSiddiqi zurl.co/NXXnA
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