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Aarushi Kalra

@chidiya.bsky.social

Postodoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield and Economics, Oxford || Digital Economies/ Development/ Political Economy || Cofounder Bahujan Economists || https://aarushirita.github.io/

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Maximilian Kasy@maxkasy.bsky.social · last yr.

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,…

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Dave Willner@dwillner.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

Erik Brynjolfsson@erikbryn.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

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Aarushi Kalra@chidiya.bsky.social · 2y ago

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 · 2y ago

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...

Rajiv Sethi@rajivsethi.bsky.social · 2y ago

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…

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Aarushi Kalra@chidiya.bsky.social · 2y ago

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…

econthatmatters.com

Belinda Archibong@belindaarch.bsky.social · 2y ago

The composition of a lot of the economics starter packs alone on here was revelatory on the nature of 'homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks'...We can definitely do better as a field #Econsky

Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Papers authored by Black, Hispanic or Asian economists receive 5.1% to 9.6% fewer citations than those by White scholars. The citation gap is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks (i.e., cite authors from own racial group). www.nber.org/papers/w33150

Aarushi Kalra@chidiya.bsky.social · 2y ago

"By allowing people to mute content in fine-tuned and personalized ways, it reduces the incentive to mute people." A very important insight! Would depend on whether the "Discover" algorithm is content based, in which case we still end up in very segregated echo-chambers. <shameless plug for JMP>

Rajiv Sethi@rajivsethi.bsky.social · 2y ago

New post on Bluesky content moderation (cc: @noupside.bsky.social @nachristakis.bsky.social and @prossertj.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

Peter Hull@instrumenthull.bsky.social · 2y ago

Next up: Aarushi Kalra (aarushirita.github.io), experimenter extraordinaire! Aarushi works on development, political economy, and the digital platforms/AI. Her JMP studies a massive RCT run on one of India's largest social media platforms, which shut down the content personalization algorithm(!)

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Jūra Liaukonytė@jurawho.bsky.social · 2y ago

Massive experiment on India’s TikTok-like platform: Replacing personalized algorithms with randomized content reduced hate speech by 27%—but led to a 35% drop in platform usage. Toxic users adapted by sharing hate at higher rates. #econsky

Peter Hull@instrumenthull.bsky.social · 2y ago

Next up: Aarushi Kalra (aarushirita.github.io), experimenter extraordinaire! Aarushi works on development, political economy, and the digital platforms/AI. Her JMP studies a massive RCT run on one of India's largest social media platforms, which shut down the content personalization algorithm(!)