Mercatus Center | Vatsal Khandelwal on Pessimistic Belief Correction and its Impact on Well-Being @MercatusCenter | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
In this episode, Shruti spoke with Vatsal Khandelwal (sites.google.com/view/vatsalkhandelwal/home) , who is a junior research fellow at Merton College (merton.ox.ac.uk/) and an associate member of the Department of Economics (economics.ox.ac.uk/) at University of Oxford. His main research interest are development and behavioral economics, with a focus on social and economic networks.
They discussed his job market paper titled “Silent Networks: The Role of Inaccurate Beliefs in Reducing Useful Social Interactions (vatsalecon.github.io/JM/JMP_Vatsal.pdf) ,” (coauthored with Ronak Jain (https://scholar.harvard.edu/ronakjain/home) ). They spoke about pessimistic beliefs and their impact on individual’s well-being, the methods to correct incorrect beliefs about social norms, the importance of social networks, support groups, students’ expectations’ impact on performance more.
Recorded September 21st, 2023.
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In this episode, Shruti spoke with Vatsal Khandelwal (sites.google.com/view/vatsalkhandelwal/home) , who is a junior research fellow at Merton College (merton.ox.ac.uk/) and an associate member of the Department of Economics (economics.ox.ac.uk/) at University of Oxford. His main research interest are development and behavioral economics, with a focus on social and economic networks.
They discussed his job market paper titled “Silent Networks: The Role of Inaccurate Beliefs in Reducing Useful Social Interactions (vatsalecon.github.io/JM/JMP_Vatsal.pdf) ,” (coauthored with Ronak Jain (https://scholar.harvard.edu/ronakjain/home) ). They spoke about pessimistic beliefs and their impact on individual’s well-being, the methods to correct incorrect beliefs about social norms, the importance of social networks, support groups, students’ expectations’ impact on performance more.
Recorded September 21st, 2023.
Read a full transcript (mercatus.org/ideasofindia/vatsal-khandelwal-pessimistic-belief-correction-and-its-impact-well-being) enhanced with helpful links.
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