Santosh Anagol
Biographic Data
| ID | 1454881 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Santosh Anagol |
| GIVEN NAMES | Santosh |
| FAMILY NAME | Anagol |
| SIGNATURE | ANAGOL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9950-0715 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Demonetization and under-reporting of economic activity
Learning from noise
Should business groups be in finance? Evidence from Indian mutual funds
Understanding the Advice of Commissions-Motivated Agents
We conduct a series of field experiments to evaluate the quality of advice provided by life insurance agents in India. Agents overwhelmingly recommend unsuitable, strictly dominated products that provide high commissions to the agent. Agents cater to the beliefs of uninformed consumers, even when those beliefs are wrong. We also find that agents appear to focus on maximizing the amount of premiums (and therefore their commissions) that customers …
Adverse selection in asset markets
Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism
We examine the returns from owning cows and buffaloes in rural India. With labor valued at market wages, households earn large, negative median annual returns from holding cows and buffaloes, at −293% and −65%, respectively. Making the stark assumption of labor valued at zero, median returns are then −7% for cows and +17% for buffaloes (with 51% and 45% of households earning negative returns for cows and buffaloes, respectively). Why do household…
The Runner-Up Effect
Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first-past-the-post elections, we document that second-place candidates are substantially more likely than close third-place candidates to run in, and win, subsequent elections. Since both candidates lost the election and had similar electoral performance, this is the effect of being labeled the runner-up. Selection into candidacy is unlikely to explain the effect on w…
The Runner-Up Effect
Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first-past-the-post elections, we document that second-place candidates are substantially more likely than close third-place candidates to run in, and win, subsequent elections. Since both candidates lost the election and had similar electoral performance, this is the effect of being labeled the runner-up. Selection into candidacy is unlikely to explain the effect on w…
Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism
We examine the returns from owning cows and buffaloes in rural India. With labor valued at market wages, households earn large, negative median annual returns from holding cows and buffaloes, at −293% and −65%, respectively. Making the stark assumption of labor valued at zero, median returns are then −7% for cows and +17% for buffaloes (with 51% and 45% of households earning negative returns for cows and buffaloes, respectively). Why do household…
The Runner-Up Effect
Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first-past-the-post elections, we document that second-place candidates are substantially more likely than close third-place candidates to run in, and win, subsequent elections. Since both candidates lost the election and had similar electoral performance, this is the effect of being labeled the runner-up. Selection into candidacy is unlikely to explain the effect on w…
Understanding the Advice of Commissions-Motivated Agents
We conduct a series of field experiments to evaluate the quality of advice provided by life insurance agents in India. Agents overwhelmingly recommend unsuitable, strictly dominated products that provide high commissions to the agent. Agents cater to the beliefs of uninformed consumers, even when those beliefs are wrong. We also find that agents appear to focus on maximizing the amount of premiums (and therefore their commissions) that customers …
Adverse selection in asset markets
Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism
We examine the returns from owning cows and buffaloes in rural India. With labor valued at market wages, households earn large, negative median annual returns from holding cows and buffaloes, at −293% and −65%, respectively. Making the stark assumption of labor valued at zero, median returns are then −7% for cows and +17% for buffaloes (with 51% and 45% of households earning negative returns for cows and buffaloes, respectively). Why do household…
Should business groups be in finance? Evidence from Indian mutual funds
Learning from noise
Demonetization and under-reporting of economic activity
Economics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Corporate Finance and Governance (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Selection (genetic algorithm (2 works) · Actuarial science (1 work)