THE POLICY EDGE
Opinion

15 November 2025

How Factories Build Trust, and Why Diversity Pays Off

A West Bengal experiment shows that diversity, though costly at first, strengthens both workplace productivity and social cohesion over time

Arkadev Ghosh is an Assistant Professor at Duke University. 

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The discussion in this article is based on his research published in the Journal of Political Economy (Volume 133). Views are personal.

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