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I’m happy to announce that my JMP🚨🚨Teacher-directed change: The case of the English Scientific Revolution” is now out as a working paper. Finalising the draft has been a lot of work. So, very happy to share this! For lots of history, new micro-data&natural experiments, read on

Our paper on ingroup bias in the Indian judiciary — we didn't find any — is finally out! This paper has one of the two best graphs I've ever made — on publication bias in the judicial bias literature. Black circles are prior studies on ingroup bias. Explanation in 🧵👇🏻

Which degrees have the most disproportionate use of Claude? Perhaps not surprisingly, Computer Science leads the field, with 38.6% of Claude conversations related to the subject, which makes up only 5.4% of US degrees.

“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory 👉🏻 cato.org/sites/cato.org…

One thing I love about Rob Henderson is that he finds gems like this chart

Vincent Geloso First - this is more my area of expertise - it is frankly pretty extreme to claim that theoretical arguments can do anything convincing on this issue. The theoretical channels for government investment to be complementary to private investment are so ample that any argument to

I am hiring a full-time RA to work with me at UC Berkeley on projects related to public finance, before embarking on a PhD in economics. Flexible starting date (Jul-Sept 2025) & open to international applicants. Job and salary description + application: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04826

Want to study the economic impact of AI and influence the policy choices a frontier lab makes? I'm building a team to advance Anthropic 's Economic Index & other ~special projects. Lots of fun! Economist: job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs… Data Scientist: job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs…

Check out the Stanford AI Index Report: AI Index It's the best one-stop-shop for credible, current data on AI trends.

Who are the entrepreneurs that drive economic progress, and what does this mean for research and policy? w/ @UfukAkcigit Harun Alp Marta Prato and I use microdata to uncover the critical symbiosis between entrepreneurs and inventors that power innovation and growth 🧵

Uber just invented … … the bus

🔥🔥🔥 It is with great excitement that I share our new paper A consensus statement on potential negative impacts of smartphone and social media use on adolescent mental health 🧵 below

*Call for papers for the 2025 Remote Work Conference* Stanford, October 22 to 24 2025. In person presentations, and streamed if folks want to watch remotely. Research papers on cause/effect of remote, WFH or hybrid please submit here: remoteworkconference.org/call-for-papers

So excited to share new work with Emileigh Harrison about the presence and portrayal of topics, values, and identities in U.S. textbooks: What we teach in our curricula is more similar across our country than political narratives might have us believe. tinyurl.com/miiebooks

📣We’re hosting our 4th annual conference on economic opportunity on October 9-10 with opening remarks from Raj Chetty and a Keynote from @DavidAutor. This is an excellent opportunity for both junior and senior scholars to share their work. ⬇️

Incoming Berkeley Economics Prof. Nicolas Longuet-Marx is hiring a full-time RA for the Fall! The pre-doc will support exciting work w/ U.S. data on granular election results, campaign contributions + positioning, and employment in green + polluting sectors. bit.ly/3Zaowmx

"Floods", by Dev Patel, is one of the more astounding Big Data econ papers I have ever seen. Machine learning can be used on satellite data to essentially do magic. How damaging are floods? How much do they affect human capital attainment? A thread on the paper 1/

A difference in average SAT scores among admitted students IS NOT evidence of preferential treatment or lower standards for any group.