Manaswini Rao

Registration details of our first seminar in the Winter '26 series 👇

Mark your calendar for the winter line up of seminars at the virtual seminar series on the Indian economy @gpsindiacenter.bsky.social 👇

#econsky don't miss a great lineup of speakers for the virtual seminar series on the Indian Economy this Fall @gpsindiacenter.bsky.social; topics range from education, spatial labor markets, and environment 👇 details on registration and mailing list

Self-Nomination Form for UC San Diego 21st Century India Center Seminar Series on the Indian Economy The goal of the UC San Diego 21st Century India Center Seminar Series is to provide a platform for junior scholars to share their research on the Indian economy, engage with a community of scholars, a...

#econsky we are inviting self nominations to present your work on the Indian economy at the 21st Century India Center @gpsucsd.bsky.social for slots starting Fall 2025. Here is the form forms.gle/7XoQ5dNF92by... please circulate widely!

Realized link to paper didn't work before. Here it is manaswinirao.com/files/202207...

We rule out the role of physical distance and show that social distances matter in the context of India. Finally, we show that much of the diffusion is observed within higher and intermediate status jati groups even though low status farmers are more likely to experience floods.

We also find that this is driven by higher adoption among farmers in the same jati as the initial, randomly treated, recipient farmers in treated villages.

This average effects masks substantial heterogeneity based on the underlying social structures (jati structures) of the study villages. We find significantly higher diffusion since the start in homogeneous villages relative to fractionalized villages.

We find modest overall diffusion of new, flood resistant seeds introduced in coastal floodplains of Odisha (India) among non-treated farmers in treated villages relative to their counterparts in control villages- only 2pp more farmers say that they grow the variety.

Our paper (w/ Alain de Janvry and Betty Sadoulet) on the long run diffusion of agricultural technology (flood resistant seeds) will be out in August in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization JEBO. Working paper version and thread 👇https://manaswinirao.com/files/20220713_ss1diffusion.pdf

#econsky I am excited to discuss Sampreet Goraya's paper on caste identity and misallocation across Indian firms at the last seminar at the 21CIC India seminar series this academic year. Registration details 👇. Also, stay tuned for info on 2025-26 talks

#econsky Mark your calendar to listen to Disha Gupta (IGIDR, Mumbai) present her work on electricity subsidies and groundwater use in Punjab at @GPSIndiaCenter virtual seminar series. Grateful to Sudatta Ray for discussing. Registration details 👇

#econsky Join us tomorrow for our virtual seminar on the Indian economy by Chinmaya Kumar (AP @azimpremjiuniv ) on whether workers discriminate jobs based on their employers. @JUNISINGH1 will discuss the work. Registration details below and also on @GPSIndiaCenter 👇

#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.

#econsky Don't forget to register for this week's talk here: gps-ucsd.zohobackstage.com/HouseholdEnv...

Looking forward to discussing Raisa Sherif’s work at the @UCSDGPSIndiaCenter seminar! Join us next week! Registration link below! #econsky

Join us next week to learn about intra-hh dynamics (parent-children) around pro-environmental behavior by Raisa Sherif at UCSD GPSIndiaCenter virtual seminar. @apuravbhatiya.bsky.social will discuss the paper. Registration details in QR code below 👇

Join us in a few hours to listen to @AshishKumarSed1 talk about couples therapy and gender-based labor market implications. @livia_alfonsi will discuss the paper. Details below ⬇️ @manaswini.bsky.social @gpsucsd.bsky.social

📢 #econsky New year new talks! Register (QR code in the image) 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: @manaswini.bsky.social

We close Fall '24 virtual seminar series on the Indian economy this Wednesday. Join us to listen to Kartik Srivastava from Harvard present his work on residential schooling and it's effects on marginalized students in India. Registration details india.ucsd.edu/events/semin...

Just a reminder that @gmcd.bsky.social and @kylefbutts.bsky.social have made an incredible public good describing how to use data.table and fixest to encourage moving from Stata to R!

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Colleague with watchmaking as a hobby! Can it get any cooler! Fortunate to have @bartonwillage.com as a senior colleague at #UD econ.

Fantastic paper! #econsky take a look.

HUGE public service 🙏🙏

Bubbling this up. Register here for this week's talk gps-ucsd.zohobackstage.com/CarbonFootpr...

Okay, the first Women in Econ starter pack was such a success that we quickly hit the BlueSky starter pack limit (150 accounts). But, I've got a version 2.0 with even more awesome economists you should follow!

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Carbon Footprint of Place-Based Economic Policies Please join us for a virtual paper discussion presented by author Zhanhan Yu and comments made by discussant Danae Hernandez-Cortes.

Join us next week online at UC San Diego India Center to learn about special economic zones and their environmental impact by Zhanhan Yu followed by discussion by Danae Hernandez-Cortes. Register here: gps-ucsd.zohobackstage.com/CarbonFootpr...

Who benefits from deforestation for infrastructure in India? Guest post by Sayantan (Sunny) Mitra Who benefits from deforestation for infrastructure in India? Guest post by Sayantan (Sunny) Mitra

while clearing forests for infrastructure in India has large environmental costs, I demonstrate that it also has progressive distributional benefits especially for smaller projects in densely populated areas - today’s job market post by Sunny Mitra of Berkeley blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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Inaugural #UDelaware Economics Department #BlueHenEconomicsClub football tailgate was a great success! Thank you for organizing #EYetter #OBerchuk #JButler! #GoBlueHens!