📢📢 📢 Our annual #DataScience summer school is back with 8 workshops on the fundamental knowledge and the latest development in the field. Participation is free globally, generously sponsored by Hertie School 🗓️August 14-25, 2023 👉Join us ds3.ai

There is much discussion of the recent Supreme Court decision striking down affirmative action at elite colleges, both from left and the right.

The productivity of elite scientists is largely explained by #collaboration with graduate students and postdocs at more prestigious institutions rather than inherent differences in talent (according to a study of 78,802 tenure-track faculty at 262 schools) science.org/doi/full/10.11…

🎉 Excited that our paper on the productivity effects of GenAI (with Shakked Noy) is now out in Science! Link to paper and thread with updates below ⬇️ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Just hired a 21yo for their first job. What basic professional advice do they need? Here's what I tell all my new staff, but perhaps you can add. I'll start small. 1/ Use an online calendar. Have a foolproof system of reminders, so you never forget a deadline or obligation.

Just released a new working paper on mental health in European Economics Departments joint w. Clara Sievert, Valentin Bolotnyy🇺🇸🇺🇦, and Paul Barreira. Follow this thread for an overview of our research and key findings. Please, read the full working paper here: docs.iza.org/dp16309.pdf

The longer people are in academia, the more they realize that when reading papers it's best to ignore Intro, Discussion etc. and just look at Methods and Results journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

A large scale survey in Chile is used to analyze whether studying economics make students more gender biased. Just Accepted new paper by Valentina Paredes, Valentina M. Daniele Paserman, Daniele Paserman Francisco J. Pino, Francisco J. Pino zurl.co/UiRA

(1/10) The Child Penalty Atlas, joint work with my fantastic co-authors camille landais and Henrik Kleven, is now out as a working paper!🧵 dropbox.com/scl/fi/wlels25…

I’m excited to share American Stories, a new billion-scale dataset of structured texts/layouts from public domain newspapers (1780-1960) that we’ve built using our deep learning packages. #EconTwitter (1/13) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2308.12477 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/dell-…

1/ Qualitative interviews offer unparalleled richness but are rarely used in economics. Let's change that! New WP with Ingar Haaland uses an AI-driven approach to conducting q qualitative interviews, making them scalable, cheap, and ripe for both qualitative and quantitative analysis!

🚨We have a new working paper on AI & work🚨 In pre-registered experiments at BCG, the elite consulting firm, consultants using the GPT-4 AI finished 12.2% more tasks, completed tasks 25.1% more quickly & produced 40% higher quality results. Big gains. 1/ oneusefulthing.org/p/centaurs-and…

Incredible news to wake up to!!!!!!🎉🍾🥳 Claudia Goldin made the quite subversive choice to study women - what shapes their labor supply decisions, their labor market outcomes, and more - at a time when most did not consider 50% of the population worthy of such study. [1/3]

🚨New tool to classify text into discrete emotions! Fine-tuned mDeBERTa model based on crowdcoded data described in my Political Analysis study (link below). Unlike the ELECTRA model discussed in the paper, this new tool is MULTILINGUAL (up to 100 languages) #textasdata #nlp

You've seen the live performance. You've seen the slides. And maybe you've even seen the leaked rough cut that circulated online. So here it is at last: "Anonymity and Identity Online (Taylor's Version)" florianederer.github.io/ejmr.pdf

🚨🚨 Conference alert: Call for Papers 🚨🚨 I'm so excited to co-organize the conference "The Workplace of the Future" in Tilburg on Sep 3 & 4, 2024. Keynote lectures by @orianabandiera and John A. List Submit now: david-schindler.de/CfP_Workplace.…

Less than 3 hours since OpenAI announced GPT-4o, and the hype is unreal. Here are 16 wild examples you don't want to miss: 1. Interview preparation

From undermining labor markets and education to exacerbating inequality, a new study examines the economic challenges that Artificial General Intelligence may pose in coming years, from Anton Korinek nber.org/papers/w32980

New at PNASNews with David Broockman, christian caballero & Matty Easton: "Political practitioners poorly predict which messages persuade the public." As we head into the last week of the campaign, a good reminder that political practitioners have poor intuitions as to what persuades

"Why don't you inform subjects of an audit study that they are in an audit study?" Because doing so changes their behavior. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…