15 year old sent me the link to the NY dept of labor working papers. dol.ny.gov/working-papers I imagined her as an economist in the making, interested in labor in NY. turns out this is not academic working papers, but the the documentation for her to work in the summer 🤣

Looking for code example to load python within Stata (pystata) and train and run a doc2vec model. Then estimate something (e.g. differences in cosine distance) for each row.

What is the key paper showing immigrants have higher risk preferences? (Preferably in lab experiments.)

I feel i am seeing a lot more flowery or convoluted language now.. is it LLMs?

At the #AOM2024, Scott Stern, Joshua Gans, and I were excited to officially launch our book 📚Entrepreneurship, Choice and Strategy 📚 , now available for instructors W. W. Norton & Company! Instructors, learn more here: seagull.wwnorton.com/entrepreneursh…

This is exciting. statagpt.com

If you can't make sense of how there is increasing political polarization, why false facts do not die, and how echo chambers happen. Or, if you're just interested in how culture works. Check out Michael Morris, Professor at Columbia University's new book, Tribal. michaelwmorris.com/book

JOB OPENING ALERT! My group (Boston University - Strategy & Innovation) *just* got approved for a TT Assistant Professor slot (rookies & advanced assistant)! Note the very quick Oct 16 deadline in the ad. Please circulate & apply!

Pague más caro el café en Lavalleja y Loyola que en el Mile End de Montreal. Y en #EstoNoEsEconomia escribí un elogio de Starbucks. Starbucks -> Startups noeseconomia.com/p/elogio-de-st…

Enorme gusto ver en el blog 'Esto no es economía' que cubran nuestro artículo en español y una explicación fantástica. Muchas gracias Nico Ajzenman !!

Now live! Please send your best students to join us at the NBER Entrepreneurship Boot Camp this summer. The event is a wonderful way to join the field, and was a starting point for many of our academic journeys. Applications due Feb 15! David Robinson nber.org/calls-papers-a…

I never imagined a single week could so profoundly shift my perspective on my research area, but that's exactly what happened at this bootcamp. It was one of the most rewarding experiences of my PhD: top researchers walked us through the literature such that we connect the dots.

Amazing opportunity for PhD students interested in entrepreneurship (and attending part of the NBER Summer Institute): nber.org/calls-papers-a… Application due: February 15th.  Thank you to David Robinson and Jorge Guzman for organizing.

coding with copilot is really nice!

1/ 🚨 New tariffs are here. What did we learn from the last round? Our research (AER: Insights 2021) shows that tariffs on imports largely hit US firms—not foreign exporters. But front-running, trade diversion, and lower margins meant the impact on consumer prices was limited in

Want to spark local businesses? Try opening a coffee shop. Mario L. Small and Jorge Guzman offer some new research: vitalcitynyc.org/articles/how-s…

📈 Prices of Chinese goods at major U.S. retailers keep rising. Our updated paper has data until May 7 and covers 276K+ products — including 15K with country of origin identified using GenAI. Full paper: …lab-rw7gfm.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/tariffs/Tracki… #Tariffs