I know this is very “in my days we walked uphill both ways” but some Brown Econ dept classes move to zoom and the main office closes today because some snow fell???? Like? Two inches? But the sidewalks are clear?? Y’all east coast people are whack

Even $1.5M / year to use ChatGPT and its friends at your business seems like severe underpricing. I guess it could be not that much compute but still seems low. Anybody in econ thinking about AI pricing?

I always knew Chicago people were meaner to their own

It’s still amazing go me how quickly GD mobilizes after a crisis to set up their direct cash system in the crisis zone.

*10 econ phds crowding around a blackboard in the basement* Student: We can go upstairs to a bigger room if you like TA: No, because then they will see us. We live in the darkness. When you’re a TA you will understand

The US had a draft in WWII but I don’t think many would say that the US soldiers who fought the Nazis were slaves.

Public good idea: why haven’t Econ grad students crowdsourced MWG solutions better than Tadelis et al? Tadelis solutions are widely used but have many mistakes. We could have repository for MWG solns, share >1 soln per problem, downvote bad solns, etc

I’ve been feeling uneasy today reading the GPT-4 news. Like the world is moving too fast for us to grasp. Reading Mary Oliver poetry is the right antidote for tech anxiety

me about to absolutely murder any nuance in my data

my favorite paper recently, partially bc it says i'm right to be curmudgeonly about remote work. for engineers, working in person means getting more feedback. This is esp important if you're young or a woman (women/young ppl who received less feedback were more likely to leave)

Farm animal suffering is a hidden cost of cheap meat. Exactly how much is it worth? Laura Gersony explores: sentientmedia.org/animal-welfare…

After a grueling first year of the phd, feels validating to find this in the mail today ☺️

So are people who come to US for grad school more likely to quit smoking bc no one in the US smokes? If so, is US grad school better for health than european grad school (irrespective of income)?

so far reading the methodology section of the EJMR paper is the most confusing part of my summer

I have always been really cold in public spaces. Now, I seek retribution for a lifetime of being cold! I will ask ppl to turn up the temp in airplanes. restaurants. Coffee shops. I don’t care if ur hot. I’m cold. And the cold people have been marginalized since AC was invented.

But my latest and biggest accomplishment is turning up temp from 68 to 72 in the Brown library

would be nice to see at least one woman in the NBER SI landing page image

science:

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 "Sticky Constraints: Business location, competition, and the gender profit gap" (with Solene Delecourt Anya Marchenko Layna Lowe) Link: shorturl.at/ioIM0