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Aarushi Kalra @chidiya.bsky.social · Jun 24

new yorkers cant not vote for the guy explaining rank choice voting in hindi/urdu 😪

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jun 4

Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya.

Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

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Aarushi Kalra @chidiya.bsky.social · Jun 20

🚀 Calling all Master's & PhD students abroad! Join our Admission Abroad Mentorship Program (AAMP) as a mentor. Guide mentees through applications, review materials & provide support. Give back & help shape future Bahujan scholars! Form link: forms.gle/LUfET2Stzv2a...

#Gradschool

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Jun 6

In case somebody missed this yesterday, while watching a political car-crash unfold:

"The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"
is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online!

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Means of Prediction

An eye-opening examination of how power—not technology—will define life with AI. AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms,…

press.uchicago.edu

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CESifo @cesifo.org · May 9

The WS on 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
- jointly held w/ UCLouvain, LCII,Telecom Paris, TSE, Uni Warsaw - just wrapped up.

Congratulations to @chidiya.bsky.social & @juliusgoedde.bsky.social - both won the Best Paper(s) Award 👏

🙏 to the local organizers @tse-fr.eu
ℹ️ www.digital-economics.org

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · Apr 26

I had an interesting experience yesterday, where my public-facing and scholarly worlds intersected, really collided. There were some fireworks.

Now I'm stuck in an airport on a layover, so I'm going to write about that experience. It happened at this talk at CSU Bakersfield #highered #academiclife

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Aarushi Kalra @chidiya.bsky.social · Feb 6

And so it begins 😞...

www.bbc.com/news/article...

US military plane carrying deported Indians lands in Punjab

President Donald Trump has made the mass deportation of undocumented foreign nationals a key policy.

www.bbc.com

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Aarushi Kalra @chidiya.bsky.social · Jan 19

Is the pattern in TikTok blackouts... Ugh... Random?

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · Jan 9

Second: Meta seriously weakened its hate speech standards in a way that makes all protected groups generally, and immigrants, women, and LGBTQ+ people specifically, much more vulnerable to abuse on the site. 🧵 5/11

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jan 4

This article should be required reading for anyone commenting on the political effects of social media.

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Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn.bsky.social · Nov 19

Here's a our new paper "The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment"

We analyze a long-running field experiment of online advertising.

We find no significant differences in valuations between users who see ads vs. those who don't.

www.nber.org/papers/w32846

The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Dec 24

"you'll be visited by three spirits"

The three spirits

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Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn.bsky.social · Dec 1

Here's a great starter pack of economists working on AI.

Who else should be on this list?

bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Aarushi Kalra @chidiya.bsky.social · Dec 21

Would appreciate being added aarushirita.github.io/papers/

Research

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Aarushi Kalra @chidiya.bsky.social · Dec 21

Thanks for this: would love to be added aarushirita.github.io/papers/

Research

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Aarushi Kalra @chidiya.bsky.social · Dec 21

throwing random content at users helps algorithms learn user preferences while retaining users.

In related work, I try to think of other viewpoint-blind policy measures to "nudge" the supply of hate to reduce exposure: inserting apolitical local news about devo issues aarushirita.github.io/papers/

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Aarushi Kalra @chidiya.bsky.social · Dec 21

could not have written this post better myself: really appreciate it, @rajivsethi.bsky.social! As correctly pointed out, the hard question is whether diversification provides a way to moderate without censoring: the model-based counterfactuals show that partial diversification could be the answer.

Rajiv Sethi @rajivsethi.bsky.social · Dec 20

New post on the demand and supply of hate, referencing work by @ursina.bsky.social @chidiya.bsky.social @afinetheorem.bsky.social @noupside.bsky.social (cc @instrumenthull.bsky.social)

open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

The Demand and Supply of Hate

The steady drumbeat of social media posts on new research in economics picks up pace towards the end of the year, as interviews for faculty positions are scheduled and candidates try to draw attention...

open.substack.com

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Rajiv Sethi @rajivsethi.bsky.social · Dec 18

Interesting experimental paper on online hate by @chidiya.bsky.social treatment group gets randomized feed instead of algo-curated, exposure to toxic content (TC) drops, engagement drops, search for TC rises, sharing of TC rises relative to exposure:

www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...

Can Social Media Algorithms be Regulated to Prevent Online Radicalization in Developing Countries?

We are excited to launch our Job Market Paper Series blog for 2024-2025, beginning with our very first blog post by Aarushi Kalra. Aarushi Kalra is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Brown Universi…

www.econthatmatters.com

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Stephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social · Dec 18

#eeac Day 12: @chidiya.bsky.social JMP "Hate in the Time of Algorithms: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment on Online Behavior” switches from algorithmic feed to random content on Indian TikTok-like platform. Great summary of findings here www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-... #econsky #econjmp

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Aarushi Kalra @chidiya.bsky.social · Dec 12

Thank you so much!

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Aarushi Kalra @chidiya.bsky.social · Dec 11

Thank you! Would love to be added.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Dec 6

The ACLU gets *zero* funding from the government.

A bit disconcerting that the fellow tasked with reducing government funding doesn't know that.

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Aarushi Kalra @chidiya.bsky.social · Dec 2

Thank you so much!

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Aarushi Kalra @chidiya.bsky.social · Nov 29

Would love to be added: thank you!

Aarushi Kalra @chidiya.bsky.social · Nov 29

Thrilled to share that my work on feed-ranking algorithms, based on a large-scale experiment I conducted with 5 million people in India, was recently featured on the Economics that really matters blog!

So excited for feedback from folks in this lovely space 🦚 www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...

Can Social Media Algorithms be Regulated to Prevent Online Radicalization in Developing Countries?

We are excited to launch our Job Market Paper Series blog for 2024-2025, beginning with our very first blog post by Aarushi Kalra. Aarushi Kalra is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Brown Universi…

www.econthatmatters.com

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Nov 26

Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...

At least one item on his wishlist has been granted: Bluesky has decided to quadruple the size of its contract workforce of content moderators from 25 to 100, the company told Platformer. The move comes in response to Bluesky’s rapid growth since this month’s US presidential election, which triggered a fresh exodus of users away from Elon Musk’s X and over the weekend took the platform past 22 million total users.

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