This is very tragic. Pat Bajari did more to demonstrate that PhD economists are useful in actual businesses than perhaps anyone in history.

Great interview with Pat Bajari about his time at Amazon. RIP keystone.ai/news-publicati…

JMR has started the search for a new EIC, starting 7/1/2026. ama.org/2025/04/16/cal…

Proud of Northwestern for supporting its researchers.

When a data vendor asks an academic, “what do you think a reasonable cost is for our data?”, what is the optimal response?

All that hullabaloo about privacy for nothing? Google Isn’t Launching A User Choice Prompt For Third-Party Cookies In Chrome | AdExchanger adexchanger.com/data-privacy/g…

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It’s official — we broke ground on Kellogg’s new state-of-the-art facility. To celebrate, we asked the team behind the architecture, design, tech and more to share what this next chapter means for Kellogg. The future starts here. #KelloggLeader

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment" by Erik Brynjolfsson, Avinash Collis, Daniel Deisenroth, Haritz Garro, Daley Kutzman, Asad Liaqat, and Nils Wernerfelt. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Wow.

Fun paper to read about the modern misinterpretation of Smith's "Invisible Hand" reference in The Wealth of Nations. The tl;dr is that he probably didn't mean for it to refer to the benefits of free markets. Ref: Rothschild (1994, AER P&P) jstor.org/stable/2117851

Meta’s just dropped their new Measurement 360 guidance. Link in comments.

New piece out today in Proceedings of the National Academies of Science... take caution using LLMs as human surrogates pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Best billboard of the week