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Duncan Webb

Princeton University
dmbwebb@gmail.com

Duncan Webb is a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, and will join NovaSBE as an Assistant Professor in 2025. He is a development economist who uses tools and insights from behavioural economics, with his current projects focusing on discrimination, social change, and human capital.

He was a visiting scholar at MIT in 2022-23, and at UC Berkeley in 2021, and is a Global Priorities Fellow supported by the Forethought Foundation.

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Can conversations about minorities reduce discrimination? Evidence from anti-transgender discrimination in Chennai

Discriminatory behaviour is known to adversely impact equity and efficiency in a range of economic and social domains. In the context of discrimination against transgender people in urban Chennai, thi...

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