New publication alert! My first article is out in Political Behavior! In it, I ask: Are politicians more influenced by personal stories than by statistical facts? I try answering this question with a series of preregistered survey experiments among Chilean elected officials.

Excited to share our new paper in Political Analysis co-authored with Neil Ketchley, Alexandra Siegel, and Mossaab Bagdouri! 📢 We introduce an open-source, computationally light method for measuring media criticism—a key marker of media freedom and democratization.

🥳🥳 Our paper Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A field Experiment on #EconTwitter has just been published in the American Economic Review: Insights. with Bruno Ferman and Pedro Sant'Anna

TL;DR: not really, and if you thought they would, you might be getting fooled by publication bias

"Overburdened Bureaucrats: Providing Equal Access to Public Services During COVID-19" by Karoline Larsen Kolstad. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

🚨 Our latest paper just came out in Science, where we report a simple, historical pattern: From 1980 to 2020, Republican lawmakers consistently funded science at a higher level than their Democratic counterparts. four years in the making. Led by Zander Furnas thread 1/n

I can highly recommend reading Natalia Vasilenok JMP "Reading Orwell in Moscow", which is a terrifically original project on how citizens are changing their reading habits in light of the war with Ukraine. nvasilenok.github.io/pdfs/papers/Re…

New in PNAS with Sean Westwood and Yphtach Lelkes: Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America Polarization Research Lab PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

In 2016, Geoffrey Hinton warned students not to train as radiologists, the field was so ripe for AI automation. Today, there are more new radiologist jobs than ever and radiologist wages are up 48%. Yet AI *has* exploded in the field. So what happened? worksinprogress.co/issue/the-algo…

"It has gone largely unnoticed that time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline." By John Burn-Murdoch

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, first view at Political Analysis, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, Lucid):