arun g. chandrasekhar


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themes. [social learning] [signaling and reputation] [statistics] [health] [informal markets]

publications

designing effective celebrity public health messaging: results from a nationwide twitter experiment promoting vaccination in indonesia (with vivi alatas, markus mobius, benjamin olken, and cindy paladines) [conditionally accepted at the economic journal]

when less is more: experimental evidence on information delivery during india's demonetization (with abhijit banerjee, emily breza, and benjamin golub) [conditionally accepted at the review of economic studies]

social networks, reputation and commitment: evidence from a savings monitors experiment (with emily breza). econometrica (january, 2019): vol. 87 issue 1 doi:10.3982/ECTA13683 [auxiliary appendix]

social networks as contract enforcement: evidence from a lab experiment in the field (with cynthia kinnan and horacio larreguy). amerian economic journal: applied economics (october, 2018): vol. 10 no. 4 doi:10.1257/app.20150057 [online appendix and data]

surveys

networks in economic development (with emily breza, benjamin golub, and aneesha parvathaneni). oxford review of economic policy. (edited by matthew ellott, sanjeev goyal, and alex teytelboym, 2019)

working papers

revising...

network centrality and informal institutions: evidence from a lab experiment in the field (with emily breza and horacio larreguy, august 2019), nber working paper #20309 [revision requested at the journal of public economics]

in progress...

blue spoon; or, sparking communication about appropriate technology use (with esther duflo, michael kremer, joao pugliese, jonathan robinson, and frank schilbach) [submitted]

signaling, shame, and silence in social learning (with benjamin golub and he yang)

some work in progress

effects of caste-based affirmative action in governance on socio-economic networks and resource provision (with emily breza and m.r. sharan)

noise and diffusion (with abhijit banerjee and emily breza)

advice (with ben golub and he yang)

skepticism (with emily breza and ben golub)

old stuff

information, networks and social insurance: evidence from a lab experiment in the field (with cynthia kinnan and horacio larreguy, september 2011)