AP at James Madison | Postdoc UCSD | Econ PhD ASU | Development Economics, Environmental Economics, and Applied Microeconomics
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📢 The 21st Century India Center at UCSD is inviting submissions for the 2026-27 virtual seminar series. We look forward to seeing your best research on India. Apply via the link below! 👇📈 @manaswini_rao @GPSIndiaCenter @GPS_UCSD
🖥️ Call for presenters for our 2026–27 India Economics Seminar Series
👩🏫 Early-career scholars doing exciting research on India
🗓️Virtual, 1-hour sessions with discussants
🌍Get feedback, connect with peers & grow our research community
Nominate yourself: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
#WCERE2026 begins tomorrow! Come to my session tomorrow to hear three talks on environmental and social externalities of resource extraction at 11 am. Details below ⬇️ @AereOrg
Eight years between World Congresses and they picked a beachfront campus in Portugal to bring us back together — no complaints. 🌊🙌 See you at the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists! Tag #AERE when you post so we can all follow along! 📣😊
#WCERE2026
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Please join us tomorrow for our last seminar for 2025-26 year by @AnanyaKotia with discussion by @nish_vats at @GPSIndiaCenter virtual seminar series. Registration details 👇 – at Riverside, MD
Please join us virtually to discuss @AnanyaKotia 's research on import competition & how it impacts management and productivity in Indian firms. Nishant Vats will serve as the discussant
🗓️ June 10, 2026; 8:30-9:30 a.m. PT | 9-10 p.m. IST
👉Register here: ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/registe…
Join us today for a talk on infrastructure sequencing in India. Details below. ⬇️
💡🚜Join speaker Deepti Sharma (@AhdUniv ) at our next virtual seminar to discover whether infrastructure sequencing matters in rural areas.
👩🏫Discussant: Anjali Chandra @anjali910 (@washcoll )
📅 April 8, 8:30 AM PT / 9:00 PM IST
Register ▶️ ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/registe…
Join us tomorrow for a talk on religious institutions and public service delivery by @KartikeyaBatra. @AngelaCools will discuss the paper. Registration details below 👇
📢 The next talk in our Seminar Series on the Indian Economy is almost here!
⏰ Dec 17 • 8:30–9:30 AM PST / 10:00–11:00 PM IST
@KartikeyaBatra (Azim Premji University) will present with @AngelaCools (Davidson College) serving as discussant.
Starting in 5 mins. Join us. Details below 👇
💻 Our 2025-26 virtual seminar series on the #IndianEconomy starts Oct. 15!
👩💼Speaker: Saloni Gupta @salonigupta435
👨💻Discussant: Andy de Barros @andydebarros
📊Organizers:
Meera Mahadevan, @manaswini_rao, @sayahnika
Register ➡️ ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/registe…
#India #Economy
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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.”
#NobelPrize
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🚀 📅 Announcing our Fall 2025 speaker lineup for the 21st Century India Center Seminar Series on the Indian Economy!
🌍📊 Get ready for monthly seminars featuring cutting-edge research!
Don’t miss out — join our seminars mailing list ➡️forms.gle/xtaUGBjNgUp2J88u9
This Fall, I’ll be teaching an undergrad Urban Econ course. While the course focuses on theoretical models that explain how cities emerge, thrive, or decline, I’m looking to incorporate case studies. I’d love to hear about your favorite city. Please comment below 👇
We are inviting young scholars to self nominate themselves for presenting their research on India. This is an hour long talk and includes a discussion. See below 👇 @GPSIndiaCenter
🚀 Call for Presenters for our 2025–26 Seminar Series
🧑🏫 Early-career scholars doing exciting research on India’s economy
📅 Virtual, 1-hour sessions with discussants
🌍 Get feedback, connect with peers & grow our research community
Nominate yourself 👉 forms.gle/WxKboEwfKMCTyu5N9
Join us for the last talk of this academic year. @SampreetGoraya will talk about caste and market access in India. One of the co-organizers of the seminar series, @manaswini_rao will discuss the paper. See below ⬇️
Join us this Wednesday for new insights from a paper by @SampreetGoraya & Akhil Ilango exploring how social identity affects market access & firm growth using Indian microdata. Discussant: @manaswini_rao
This is our last session this academic year. We will be back this fall!
Join us tomorrow for a talk by Disha Gupta (IGIDR, Mumbai) on electricity subsidies and groundwater use in Punjab. Sudatta Ray (Yale-NUS) will discuss the paper. Details below! @GPSIndiaCenter @manaswini_rao
We're thrilled to welcome Disha Gupta (@dishag9) from @IGIDR_Mumbai as the next speaker in our virtual Seminar Series on the Indian Economy with discussant Sudatta Ray from @YaleNUS. Join us by registering here: gps-ucsd.zohobackstage.com/E… #IndianEconomy
Join us in a few hours, details below ⬇️
📢 #econtwitter New year new talks! Register to get the details for joining our seminar this month by Ashish Sedai @AshishKumarSed1 on couples therapy and gender-based labor market consequences. And who better to discuss than @livia_alfonsi 🙏
Join us in a few hours to hear about residential schooling and its effects on marginalized students in India. Details below:
📢 We close our Fall '24 seminars with @KSrivastava_ presenting his joint work on residential schooling in India and its consequences on historically disadvantaged students this Wednesday. @jcarolina_lopez will discuss her comments. @GPSIndiaCenter @achadhvaryu @sayahnika
Join us this Wednesday at 8:30 am PST for a talk on special economic zones in India and its unintended environmental consequences by Zhanhan Yu @UofGAsbs , followed by a discussion by Danae Hernandez Cortes @ASU
How do Special Economic Zones (SEZs) impact the environment in India? Join our virtual seminar series discussion next week to find out! Author Zhanhan Yu @UofGAsbs shares research on SEZs and carbon emissions, with insights from Danae Hernandez-Cortes @ASU. #India #Economics
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#NEUDC Session 5: Climate Change, Resource Extraction and Adaptation chaired by Michele Baggio
Sayahnika Basu @sayahnika studies how the copper boom in 2000s affected educational investments among 12-18year olds in Zambia.
Great session. Learned a lot from fellow presenters, @annapappp , @lpenalozap Abdoulaye Cisse. Thanks for all the feedback. Shoutout to @Prof_Nishith_P @SilviaPrina for organizing. #NEUDC2024
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Live-tweeting @karthik_econ's presentation on state capacity at NEUDC.
Simple story of India's economy:
- Top 10% drives demand and growth
- Next 30-40% in service sector jobs supporting the top 10%
- remaining 50% left out, supported by welfare programs
Seems suboptimal 1/n
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What an inspiring 2-day Household Econ in Developing Countries workshop @DickinsonCol.Thnx to the brilliant efforts of Shamma Alam, @clausportner, & @beegle_kathleen! Grateful to be invited as a junior scholar and for the opportunity to present my work, coauthored with @BijetriB.
