Priyoma Mustafi

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Hi #EconSky,

Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄
It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open!
Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social!

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Thanks for the shout out @toddpugatch.bsky.social ! All the AMIE mentoring is certainly showing up now :)

🎯Policy Implications: If information needs to be transmitted within the household, target the expert spouse. If no expert exists, targeting one spouse is not enough! [10/10]

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💬 Discussions are more substantive in the presence of mutually recognized expertise: it incentivizes spouses to both talk🗣️AND listen👂 [9/10]

⚙️Mechanism: Mutual recognition of expertise can facilitate communication.

In gender-neutral domain, participants cannot assess who is better: they rely on inferior guess 48% of the time. In gendered domain, the rate of relying on inferior guesses is half of that! [8/10]

📈Result 2.2: After a discussion (i.e., Guess 2 performance), this advantage disappears. ❌
➡️ Information pooling is successful in the presence of expertise! [7/10]

📈Result 2.1: Before discussion (i.e., Guess 1 performance), initial information advantage exists. ✅
[6/10]

Gendered domain: a novel “guess-the-price” task, each spouse guess the prices of male and female type product baskets [5/10]

📉Result 1: Relative to receiving signals on their own, spouses' signals are less accounted for by 21%.

➡️Households indeed fail to pool information. [4/10]

Gender-neutral domain: in a ball-in-urn task, I vary the source of new information to be either self or spouse. [3/10]

In both domains, each spouse makes TWO guesses. Before Guess 2, each spouse receives new information.

❓Explore how this new information is incorporated into one’s Guess 2. [2/10]

Lab-in-field experiment to study information pooling across two different information domains:

1️⃣ Gender-neutral domain, where neither spouse is better informed

2️⃣ Gendered domain, where each spouse is better informed in their gender-congruent domain. [1/10]

I am on the #EconJobMarket !
🚨 JMP Alert 🚨

Individuals fail to incorporate information held by their spouses. Is it because they are generally reluctant to learn from their spouse?

In my #JMP, I show: NO! It's because communication is challenging in the absence of expertise.

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