California's gender board quota reduced market values of firms most affected by the quota - particularly if they failed to replace their lowest-quality male directors. Thus, negative reaction may be partly due to signal of entrenched board dynamics. nber.org/papers/w28463

Your doctor sends you for a lab test. Ever wondered if the outside temperature on the day of the test changes its result? Neither did @devingpope or I… until we did this study! Turns out, temperature distorts results Thread—new paper in Med by Cell Press x.com/CellPressNews/…

Today is publication day for a new paper on the impact of temperature on blood test results. It was jointly written with the amazing Ziad Obermeyer. Definitely worth reading his thread below describing what we find!

How well do saving nudges work? Do people save or pay off debt? Read findings of new research on All About Finance bit.ly/3Mhl68w

Understanding whether or not increases in savings are financed with high-interest debt is of critical importance for policy makers and researchers alike because if they are, consumers may end up worse off than when they started. wrld.bg/AcZM50IMBfN

This week California’s gender board quota (2018), which increased female board representation in CA from 15.9% in 2018 to 23.4%, was struck down in court on the grounds that it was unconstitutional. How did the market react? A thread (1/8): Business & Economics UniMelb

I am tremendously honored, deeply grateful and, frankly, incredibly surprised to be on the TIME100 list this year. Thanks to Steven Pinker for a lovely write-up and to everyone who reads, comments, etc for such amazing support. time.com/collection/100…

TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the world is out. I'm honored to be a part this group: time.com/time100 #TIME100

Very serious people — to use Krugman‘s words — essentially told us 6 months ago that this would be impossible: industrial gas consumption down some 20% without a meaningful output loss. They were wrong. ECONtribute

Who are the winners and losers from inflation? This may seem a well-established issue in Economics, but surprisingly, there is still some confusion among pundits, central bankers, and academics. A short-🧵that I hope clarifies certain issues

Crypto unpleasant truth: Scarcity is necessary for value but not sufficient.

OLS the most consistent thing in my life.

@alexoimas Joydeep Bhattacharya What bothers me is when I come across a published paper that stole my idea before I thought of it.

How economics has changed through the decades since the 1950s, as seen in the paper titles of the economics journals AER, JPE and QJE. Paper by Hugo M. Montesinos and Brice: researchgate.net/publication/31… Ht @DurRobert

Being average gets you laid!

As Mike Konczal finds, if you expand your analysis to 62 CPI categories and track their price changes in the 21st century, you get a slightly different story. It's not just govt vs. capitalism It's also services vs. goods. mikekonczal.substack.com/p/a-better-aei…

I think I have to give ChatGPT coauthorship to my papers...

My paper on why genetically modified crops are good for the economy, the environment, and the poor is now out in AER:Insights: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Interested in learning about foundations of #machinelearning & how ML might be useful in #economics? Consider our summer school at Department of Economics, Oxford, where I will discuss topics such as deep learning, adaptive experiments, and the social impact of AI. economics.ox.ac.uk/september-summ…

WOW. This NBER paper on how Apple's App Tracking Transparency affected fraud complaints is a blockbuster. Gonna share my reactions/qualms but the big point to make is that they don't matter: this will shape arguments about privacy for years to come nber.org/papers/w31692