A very thought provoking piece on public goods. vitalik.eth.limo/general/2022/1…

"Migration has long been one of the most profound and effective ways that human beings improve their lot, and few people have done more than Leah Boustan to help us understand how the process works." Read more about work by Princeton University Prof. Leah Boustan: bit.ly/3DWU3Oo

Local governments govern U.S. suburbs. Each one could use *zoning powers* to block affordable homes for newcomers, if residents wanted. But how much of zoning today is *exclusionary*? When would it have started? Why did it happen? Follow 🧵for answers in my job market paper...

Hey look who's on Mathstodon! mathstodon.xyz/@tao

I’m sorry, I simply cannot be cynical about a technology that can accomplish this.

Moments ago I spoke to Brittney Griner. She is safe. She is on a plane. She is on her way home.

Saw @ElifKubilay present cool RCT London Business School. Training 4th–5th grade kids in taking the other person’s perspective greatly reduced violence and victimization in the classroom, and increased x-ethnic friendships, in Turkish schools close to the Syrian border. academic.oup.com/qje/article-ab…

Informative piece on greenwashing by Antara Baruah. On carbon offsets by big companies, she notes that Carbon Market Watch’s policy director says, “…, we would need a second planet Earth to absorb global emissions if everyone decided to offset like these corporations”.

And now those climate scientists are watching in disbelief as people say climate change is not an existential risk but AI is. SMH.

Labor Day thread on my new working paper with paul frymer and Charlotte Hill tl;dr it's really hard to study but state level right-to-work (RTW) laws weaken organized labor, and by extension, weaken democratic institutions ungated: dropbox.com/scl/fi/1hze2p1… 1/n

From a referee report: "I found the manuscript difficult to read mostly because it does not read like an econometrics article, rather it reads like a detective novel." The next step in my career seems pretty clear. Don't try to stop me.

10 Favourite Economics Books 1) Inequality - Tony Atkinson Absolutely THE book on inequality and what can be done about it. Atkinson was a giant in the profession and this book reflects this, covering everything from tech to tax. Incredible considering its moderate length.

Thrilled to share the final version of our study of Black-white wealth differences in the US dating back to before the Civil War. Bigger & better, w/ 2X the data, + appendices where we explore key related Qs -- the role of racial violence, conditional gaps, immigration, etc.

Great new dataset of estimated net migration at subnational and 10x10 km level for each year between 2000 and 2019. Based on birth rates, death rates, and population counts. Paper: nature.com/articles/s4156… Data: zenodo.org/record/7997134 Interactive map: wdrg.aalto.fi/global-net-mig…

Women have a key role in protecting nature and innovative business models van enable them to do that while also empowering them.

Something big is happening in the county jail of Flint MI An innovative rehab program is sharply reducing in-jail misconduct and post-release recidivism I'm tremendously excited to share this new paper, with @MarcellaAlsan, Crystal Yang, & Arkey Barnett dropbox.com/scl/fi/n21oplk…

A thread about what is wrong with the influence of Elon Musk and other tech billionaires. Another thread about content moderation will follow later this week. Obviously, the problem isn’t that Musk is expressing his opinions, which is his freedom of speech. It isn’t that Musk has

This is the second part of what I had promised to explain: why I believe a certain type of content moderation is key for social media. First, I do see the dark side of content moderation: wired.com/story/more-con…: Freedom of speech is critical, and it is under threat both from

The wait is over. OpenAI just dropped o1, also known as Project Strawberry/Q* This is new level of AI that can "think" and "reason" before responding to you. 10 wild demos: 1. Coding Video Game from a prompt