Scholars@Duke
Arkadev Ghosh

Arkadev Ghosh

Assistant Professor of Economics
Economics

Scholarly Works

Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India

Journal article Review of Economic Studies · January 1, 2026 Non-family-based institutions for socializing young people may play a vital role in creating close-knit, inclusive communities. We study the potential for youth camps—integrating rituals, sports, and civics training—to strengthen intergroup cohesion. We ra ... Full text Open Access Cite

Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India

Journal article Journal of Political Economy · October 1, 2025 This paper implements a field experiment in India to study whether the effects of religious diversity on productivity and attitudes depend on a firm’s production technology. I randomly assigned Hindu and Muslim workers at a manufacturing plant in West Beng ... Full text Cite

Links and Legibility: Making Sense of Historical U.S. Census Automated Linking Methods

Journal article Journal of Business and Economic Statistics · January 1, 2024 How does handwriting legibility affect the performance of algorithms that link individuals across census rounds? We propose a measure of legibility, which we implement at scale for the 1940 U.S. Census, and find strikingly wide variation in enumeration-dis ... Full text Cite

ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF KINSHIP: EVIDENCE FROM U.S. BANS ON COUSIN MARRIAGE

Journal article Quarterly Journal of Economics · November 1, 2023 Close-kin marriage, by sustaining tightly knit family structures, may impede development. We find support for this hypothesis using U.S. state bans on cousin marriage. Our measure of cousin marriage comes from the excess frequency of same-surname marriages ... Full text Cite