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TEACHING<br />
EXPERIENCE<br />
• “Social networks and non-cognitive skills”, <strong>Baul</strong>, <strong>Tushi</strong>, Mobius, Markus and<br />
Rosenblat, Tanya.<br />
This paper was one <strong>of</strong> the five finalists in The University Council <strong>of</strong> Industrial<br />
Relations and Human Resource Programs Student Paper Competition,2011.<br />
Abstract<br />
Recent research in psychology and economics has documented the importance<br />
<strong>of</strong> non-cognitive skills for labor market outcomes. In this paper, we focus on a<br />
particular non-cognitive skill — self-confidence about one’s ability. We use economic<br />
experiments to measure participants’ beliefs about their expected relative<br />
performance in a real-effort task using an incentive-compatible mechanism for<br />
belief elicitation. We combine self-confidence measures with a unique dataset<br />
on the social network <strong>of</strong> the participants to investigate whether there are peer<br />
effects in confidence. Indeed, we find that more confident participants tend<br />
to have more confident friends. Peer effects might be an important transmission<br />
mechanism for acquisition <strong>of</strong> self-confidence. We therefore explore whether<br />
our finding is due to selection (confident participants choose to have confident<br />
friends) or social interaction (one’s confidence is influenced by friends’ confidence).<br />
<strong>Papers</strong> in progress<br />
• “Social norms regarding bribe giving vs bribe taking: private vs. public sector<br />
in India”, Banerjee, Ritwik, <strong>Baul</strong>, <strong>Tushi</strong> and Rosenblat, Tanya.<br />
• “Self-selection and creation <strong>of</strong> corporate cultures: mergers and acquisitions”,<br />
<strong>Baul</strong>, <strong>Tushi</strong>, Rosenblat, Tanya and Strasburg, Chris.<br />
• “Social networks and altruism”, <strong>Baul</strong>, <strong>Tushi</strong>, Bhalla, Manaswini and Rosenblat,<br />
Tanya.<br />
• “Hind-sight bias: does monitoring increase effort?”, <strong>Baul</strong>, <strong>Tushi</strong> and Rosenblat,<br />
Tanya.<br />
Other Research Experience<br />
• Research Assistant under Dr. Soko Starobin in Educational Leadership and<br />
Policy Studies <strong>Department</strong>, Fall 2012.<br />
• Research Assistant under Dr. Tanya Rosenblat in the project “Social networks<br />
and obesity”, Spring 2011.<br />
• Intern at World Trade Organization, Geneva on World Trade Report 2010,<br />
“Trade in natural resources”, Fall 2009.<br />
• Research Assistant at Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi in an environment<br />
economics related project “The importance <strong>of</strong> being informed: experimental<br />
evidence on demand for environmental quality: drinking water in urban India”,<br />
Mar 2004.<br />
Instructor<br />
Principles <strong>of</strong> Microeconomics(ECON 101), Summer 2012.<br />
Teaching Assistant<br />
• Graduate Microeconomics (ECON 501), Fall 2011, led weekly two-hour recitations<br />
• Principles <strong>of</strong> Microeconomics (ECON 101), Fall 2007 Spring 2011, led weekly<br />
one-hour recitations<br />
• Introduction to Agricultural Markets (ECON 235), Spring 2012
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