Half of workers have used ChatGPT, w/ adoption ranging from 79% of software developers to 34% of financial advisors. Women are 20 ppts less likely to use the tool.

Explore more insights from Chicago Booth's Anders Humlum & Emilie Vestergaard:

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A useful graphic for the 'TikTok is free speech' crowd

People pay much more attention to information about things that they own, and that changes how and what they end up learning. Great clip from Steve Jobs.

We have a paper providing evidence:
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Ungated:
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Congratulations to our Director, Erik Hurst and Amir Sufi (both Chicago Booth) on their election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences!

The Academy was founded in 1780 to help a young nation face its challenges through shared purpose, knowledge, and ideas.

Really nice summary of recent work on the potential impact of generative AI on productivity and the labor force.

What a great resource from Jake M. Grumbach in response to my previous post.

'Learning From Biased Research Designs' from Andrew Little and Tom Pepinsky. Link below.

Very happy to release my new paper with Zack Cooper Stuart Craig Lev Klarnet: 'Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the US Hospital Sector?' (zarekcb.github.io/HospitalMerger…)

In open defiance of Betteridge's Law, our answer is 'yes, absolutely.' (thread below)

I think a lot of people would be genuinely surprised that the US is not only not declining on the world stage, it's currently gaining in global economic share.

US GDP increased 1.4 trillion dollars last year, which is equivalent to adding the entire country of Spain.

Social media is a collective trap: Users feel compelled to stay engaged, even if they hate it.

The majority of people would prefer to live in a world without Tik Tok or Instagram (which currently have 3.5 billion users). Indeed, nearly 60% of Instagram users wish the platform…

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Congratulations to Laura Doval for winning not one, but TWO econometric society prizes: best theory paper in ECMA, and best paper in TE!

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Congratulations to Vasiliki Skreta for winning the Arrow Prize, awarded to the best theory paper published in Econometrica in the LAST FOUR YEARS! Vasiliki Skreta The Econometric Society Econometrica UT Austin
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