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Job market candidates in labor: we invite you to join the Labor Hub, create a profile and post your JM paper! You need the endorsement of your advisor, that’s all. laborhub.ilr.cornell.edu
Big announcement to the Labor Econ Community: We have created the "Labor Hub" - a platform to exchange relevant info (events, jobs, visits, SI, papers...) - Apply to become a member! Job market candidates especially encouraged to apply! Link: laborhub.ilr.cornell.edu/ Please share!
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The Indian Economy: Navigating a Global Turning Point, edited by @kaushikcbasu, Sonalde Desai, @_ADeshpande and Nirvikar Singh (@simonschuster), 2026) is available: simonandschuster.com/books/T…
Ashwini_Deshpande retweeted
Big announcement to the Labor Econ Community: We have created the "Labor Hub" - a platform to exchange relevant info (events, jobs, visits, SI, papers...) - Apply to become a member! Job market candidates especially encouraged to apply! Link: laborhub.ilr.cornell.edu/ Please share!
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We witnessed a rare moment of protest inside fortress Jantar Mantar: the economist and activist Jean Dreze and other student activists picked up moments after they began their protest.
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🏡 On #WorldHabitatDay, access to safe water is central to building healthy communities.
@CedaAshoka finds:
💧Only 36.6% of households have piped water
🚱 ST households are 3x more likely to rely on unsafe sources than upper-caste households
ceda.ashoka.edu.in/what-is-t…
Ashwini_Deshpande retweeted
🚨 New Publication Alert🚨
Using @CedaAshoka’s Economic Enterprise Tracker, our new analysis finds:
📈 Contract employment doubled: 19.8% → 41.6% (2000–24)
📍6 states make 60.3% of India’s contract workforce
🏭 53.2% are concentrated in 4 industries
ceda.ashoka.edu.in/on-the-fa…
Ashwini_Deshpande retweeted
David Autor é o economista do trabalho mais citado do mundo. MIT. Ele e o Google fizeram algo raro: um experimento científico controlado (RCT) sobre IA no trabalho.
O que é RCT: você sorteia quem recebe o tratamento e quem não, compara os dois grupos, e mede a diferença. Padrão-ouro da ciência. Aqui o "tratamento" era uma IA pra redigir patentes.
133 advogados de 11 escritórios americanos, divididos por sorteio. 2/3 usaram IA por 3 meses, 1/3 não. Produção avaliada às cegas por outros advogados especializados.
Com IA ligada, todo mundo melhorou. Qualidade dos juniors subiu quase o triplo da dos seniors.
Aí tiraram a IA e pediram pra todos revisarem um documento sem nenhuma assistência. Seniors que tinham usado IA ficaram melhores que quem nunca usou (p = 0,02). Juniors? Ganho médio zero. As notas deles se bifurcaram: menos medíocres, mas mais ruins E mais bons ao mesmo tempo. Pra uns a IA acelerou aprendizado, pra outros substituiu.
O senior já tinha construído julgamento crítico ao longo de anos. Quando usava IA, conseguia avaliar as sugestões e internalizar padrões. O junior pulou essa construção. Delegou o raciocínio pra máquina. Enquanto tava ligada, funcionava. Desligou, ficou sem base.
Tipo calculadora: se você já sabe aritmética, ela te acelera. Se não sabe, você não funciona sem ela.
Expertise prévia é pré-requisito pra extrair aprendizado durável de IA. Quem mais se beneficiou foi quem menos aprendeu.
fonte: NBER Working Paper 35720, Autor et al. (set/2026)
Ashwini_Deshpande retweeted
💵On #InternationalEqualPayDay, spotlighting the gender pay gap across India’s urban labour markets.
@CedaAshoka finds:
👩 Women earn < men across all urban categories
🏙️ Gender pay gap: Top 5 cities: 16.9% | Other million-plus cities: 27.8%
Read: shorturl.at/9MCcj
Ashwini_Deshpande retweeted
Revisiting @CedaAshoka's analysis on India’s credit market:
🏦Share of homes with bank loan up from 7% to 24% (2019)
📉Dalit, Adivasi & Muslim homes get <20% of credit
🌾Rural borrowers rely more on banks than moneylenders, marking shift in credit access
ceda.ashoka.edu.in/trends-in…
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You can buy (and read) 500-600 translated books instead of the IPhone Duo, and every single one of them can be flipped open.
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India stands at a crossroads. With a population of 1.4 billion, the world’s fifth-largest economy, and a geopolitical moment that creates the potential for it to be a preferred destination for investment flowing away from China, the country has rarely faced such a confluence of opportunity and peril.
A generation after liberalization transformed its economy, India is again confronting a turning point shaped by artificial intelligence, fractured globalization, climate risk, youth unemployment, rising inequality, and a changing world order.
This ambitious collection offers an assessment of where India stands and what it must do next and examines India’s development journey from the early decades of planning and the commanding role of the state, through the liberalization of the 1990s, to the unresolved dilemmas of today’s lower-middle-income market economy.
THE INDIAN ECONOMY edited by @kaushikcbasu @_ADeshpande @SonaldeDesai and Nirvikar Singh, with contributors including @maitreesh and @NaushadF is out now!📚
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The Pakeezah (restored) posters by @FHF_Official are gorgeous, all of them!
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A new book features several distinguished names associated with the Infosys Prize.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒚: 𝑵𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝑮𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒍 𝑻𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕, edited by 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐊𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐤 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐮, 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐚𝐢, 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐢 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐍𝐢𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐡, looks at how India’s economy has changed since liberalization and the questions it now faces, from the impact of AI and climate change to unemployment among young people, inequality, and a shifting global economy. It asks whether India can turn its large young population, technological progress, and growing role in the world into better jobs and wider economic opportunity.
The book opens with a chapter by 𝐍. 𝐑. 𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐲, Founder of @Infosys and Trustee of the Infosys Science Foundation.
Prof. Basu is the Jury Chair for Economics for the Infosys Prize, while the other co-editors have also served on the Prize’s jury in previous years.
Congratulations to the editors and contributors on the publication of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺.
@kaushikcbasu @Infosys_nmurthy @SonaldeDesai @_ADeshpande @Cornell
#indianeconomy #economics #economicdevelopment #publicpolicy #research #socialsciences #india #infosysprize
simonandschuster.com/books/T…
Ashwini_Deshpande retweeted
Livestock sector: women contribute major part of the labour, but men own assets + higher value activities. Plus entry into LF doesn’t reduce women’s time in dom work. Need to ⬇️ women’s time poverty, ⬆️ control over productive assets. “Value their time, labour, agency” 💯
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We’re looking for lived experiences of care givers; cultural & economic histories of care labour; intersections with caste, climate, disability & more Write to us at [email protected] with your pitch, why it’s important, and writing samples. Subject line: 'Care Vertical'
Ashwini_Deshpande retweeted
Care holds up every household in this country. So why is the work of it invisible? BehanBox is commissioning Care Conversations, a new vertical examining the people, economy, and systems shaping care work in India.
#carework #conversations #callforpitches #carelabour
