I love this May Day graffiti!

Free porridge? No RCT necessary!

Great post-doc opportunity!

Finland swims against the European Parliamentary tides! yle.fi/a/74-20092966

The deadlineto submit papers to ESA Europe is drawing nigh – July 8th, to be precise. Come to hear and share world class experimental research, stay for the food, design and sauna! esa2024helsinki.fi/helsinki

Congratulations, Topi Miettinen, on an intriguing - and topical - theory paper!

This is a wonderful initiative.

Read all about it! Read all about it! Thanks to the efforts of Middlebury Economics colleague David Munro, we have an annual newsletter! Vol. 1 is sure to become a collector's item: middlebury.edu/college/sites/…

Very interesting ... if a little ominous.

I love that Topi Miettinen and organizers are building bridges at the ESA European conference.

Vow. ChatGPT o1-preview just aced my Intermediate Microeconomics exams. It performed at the 98-99th percentile student level. v4 performed like a median student in 3/2023, v3.5 flunked badly in 12/2022 (though it did pass the Turing test as an unprepared student). 1/4

Somewhere along the way “correlation is not causation” morphed into “until the causal link is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, ideally with a large scale RCT with global external validity, than the correlation likely reflects the impact of some unobserved factor I can’t name.”

I had a lot of fun collaborating on this with Andrea Robbett and our shared thesis student, Henry Walsh Middlebury Economics Middlebury College. Thanks to the organizers of the PNAS Nexus special feature. One striking result: the headline result is driven by Republicans.

Lucky world! Middlebury Economics will now hire in macro-environmental or environmental with macro as a teaching field. Generous active colleagues who live and work in an idyllic setting. Read current chair Andrea Robbett's list, below, and apply here: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

Congratulations, Amanda. And what distinguished company.

I was never all that active, but last post on this platform for a while.

In just a few short days, 400 students, faculty, staff, parents, alums/donors have already signed a petition to restore the retirement benefits Middlebury College plans to claw back, despite decades of repeated promises. Add your name! go.middlebury.edu/savethebenefit…