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Today, we launched our Junior Seminars with Luca Bagnato (Università degli Studi di Milano). He presented a joint work with Miriam Venturini (UC Riverside) and Yu Pan (University of Zurich) on the long-term impact of rice weeders' historical presence on female political-economic empowerment in Italy. #USIEcon

*How* did so much of the world's population exit extreme poverty? Vinny Armentano 📈 , Tom Vogl and I wanted to know; here is what we've found.. econweb.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/pape…

May I respectfully disagree? The fact that medical research malpractice exists is not proof that there's a fundamental distortion in all drug trials. Similarly in social science RCTs. It's important to call out bad practices without throwing out the baby with the bathwater. 1/2

📢 NEW PAPER! Do teachers recognize stereotypes in the classroom? We introduce the Stereotype Identification Test (SIT) to measure this ability and explore whether it can be improved. 🧵 A short thread on our findings: ⬇

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Can AI-powered chatbots strengthen democracy? We test BallotBot, an AI chatbot providing official information to California voters on key ballot measures ahead of the Nov 24 elections. 🧵👇 📄 Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… w/ Elliott Ash S Galletta #EconTwitter

People's creativity hinges on the collective brain into which they are enmeshed. It's about the population size, interconnectedness and cognitive diversity. E.g., we've shown how the low innovation rates in the U.S. South arise (in part) from a lack of cultural diversity.

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20017 Seeing Stereotypes Elisa Baldazzi Università di Bologna, Pietro Biroli Pietro Biroli Università di Bologna, Marina Della Giusta Università di Torino Collegio Carlo Alberto, Florent Dubois Università di Torino @EconomixU ow.ly/KwrF50VcAVj #CEPR_LE #EconTwitter

Devin Pope and I are hiring for two RA/predoc/RP positions! We are typically able to sponsor visas. Please share widely! PREDOC.org Econ RA Listings

Now, you can ask: "what if my tasks at work are simple enough to where GPT does solve it all, easily? Can't I just use it for that?" Congratulations. You may have discovered the path to being unemployed. If the AI does everything you can do, *why would they keep you around*?

Double bill this week at ⁦TEH_UAM⁩: ⁦Elisabetta De Cao⁩ presented a great paper titled “Spare the Rod? Christian Missions and the Roots of Harsh Parenting". Thanks for your visit - we hope to see you soon!

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🚨 We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for local politicians from every democratic local election in Sweden between 1919 and 2018. Dataverse: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LG… More details below! 🧵

And if you're interested in social science genomics, health, and human capital I would be happy to be the supervisor for your Marie Curie fellowship application! Send me a CV and the project idea at my institutional email. #MSCfellow #econtwitter #genomics #humancapital

1. We’d like to clarify the situation on the "code of conduct" presented to attendees of the ESSGN conference. This was an early internal draft that was prepared somewhat hastily. In retrospect, asking attendees to sign it was premature and has understandably raised concerns.

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS: #NSE 4th #PhD and #PostDoctoral Workshop at Unina Federico II is out! Keynotes: Riccardo #Cioffi (Paris School of Economics) and Anna #Raute (School of Economics & Finance at Queen Mary) Apply before May 31st. Spread the word! Details 👇 csef.it/wp-content/upl… CSEF Economics Conferences #economics #finance

Excited to present our work on the NHS and selective mortality at the NBER Trends and Patterns in Health Disparities nber.org/conferences/tr… with Nicolau-Bassols Pietro Biroli Massimo Anelli Silvia-Mendolia

Kicking-off the 16th edition of the Essen Health Conference!

I'm so fortunate that this paper got published in such a good journal. I hope that it can be a helpful guide for future researchers who want to work at the intersection of economics and genetics and estimate Gene-Environment interplay #GxE

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Claude Raisaro Geneva Graduate Institute who works on topics related to development + behavioral economics