RCT introduction of a pollution market in Surat, Gujarat. Pollution fell by 20–30%, and efficiently — gains came from the firms who could cut pollution most effectively. Mortality benefits are *25 times* costs. An incredible state/research collaboration. 1/2

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "The intergenerational effects of welfare transfers among single mothers: Evidence from an Israeli welfare reform" By Yannay Shanan (Bar-Ilan University) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This is the final warning for those considering careers as physicians: AI is becoming so advanced that the demand for human doctors will significantly decrease, especially in roles involving standard diagnostics and routine treatments, which will be increasingly replaced by AI.

OpenAI's new o1 model is a BIG breakthrough in AI intelligence, if IQ tests say anything. I gave it the Norway Mensa IQ test, and it blows other AIs out of the water. I'm surprised!... Because there hadn't been public progress in the last 6mo. Link to full analysis below:

Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD. Recent working paper by Eva Ranehill, Anna Sandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström. Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…

Comparing the creativity of a representative human sample to GPT-4 finds "the creative ideas produced by AI chatbots are rated more creative than those created by humans... Augmenting humans with AI improves human creativity, albeit not as much as ideas created by ChatGPT alone."

In Germany, public childcare ⬇️ child maltreatment --> ⬇️ from cases initiated bc of neglect & parental overburden (as well as abuse), suggesting substitution of inadequate childcare is a main channel Malte Sandner Thomsen & Libertad González in The Economic Journal doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea…

Tremendo. Más de 1.000 hombres que fueron padres en 2022 disfrutaron de la baja de paternidad a final de año no para cuidar a sus hijos sino para ver el Mundial de fútbol de Qatar. Estudio de Libertad González Laura Hospido y Luis Guirola.

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Communication Barriers and Infant Health: The Intergenerational Effect of Randomly Allocating Refugees across Language Regions" by Daniel Auer and Johannes S. Kunz. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

We show 3 main things in the data: - Abusive men suppress women’s economic outcomes from the start of relationships - It’s a repeated pattern that even happens when abusers cohabit with women who don’t report abuse themselves - Suppression is partly strategically motivated

Statistics published this week show that the share of private #wealth owned by the top-1% in 🇨🇭 has now passed the 45% mark. 20 years ago it stood at 35%. 1/2 estv.admin.ch/estv/fr/accuei…

The next ViCE seminar is this Thursday, October 24, at 1pm ET. Panka Bencsik will present: "Calls and Conduct: The Impact of Free Communication on Prison Misconduct" More info: jenniferdoleac.com/vice-seminar/

These are billion dollar bills on the sidewalk. Crime and recidivism are so costly to communities. Just having the human decency to let incarcerated people talk to their relatives reduces violent behavior A LOT. It's also just a basic human decency.

This is amazing. 62% of Gazans support a 2-state solution, 19% support a 1-state solution with equal rights, and only 9% support removing Israel and having a Palestinian state from the river to the sea. Gazans are way more moderate than British/American student protests!

I am on the Job Market 🙌 Thanks to all my friends and colleagues for the feedback and support throughout this process, and thanks Jennifer Doleac for the service you do for all women year after year. Check the amazing work of women in the Econ JM in Jen's thread below🙂

So excited to share a new paper in Nature Mental Health! We built idiographic machine learning models to predict suicidal thoughts with EMA data. This is my 2nd dissertation paper and I'm thrilled to see it out! Huge thanks to all co-authors (tagged below). nature.com/articles/s4422…

More than 1 million refugees migrated to Germany in 2015-2016. How did this affect Germans’ exclusionary beliefs & behaviors? New at American Journal of Sociology w/Giesselmann & Tabea Naujoks journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

New at Nature Human Behaviour w/ Esping-Andersen, Pintro-Schmitt & Peter Fallesen: The intergenerational persistence of poverty (the link between poverty in childhood vs. adulthood) is 4x stronger in the US than in Denmark and 2x stronger than in UK/AUS. Why? nature.com/articles/s4156…

Look at how physicians diagnose more children with ADHD on Halloween (the red line in the middle of the figure). The authors hypothesize that docs are more likely to diagnose kids on this day simply because kids are excited for Halloween. Fascinating!

Tinder’s introduction + sharply & persistently increased sexual activity with no impact on relationship formation + increased inequality in dating outcomes among male but not female students + increased sexual assaults & STDs + improved female students' mental health