Happy to share new paper on "State Actors as Hard-to-Reach Populations" link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Today (w/ University of Oxford Stanford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more 🧵

Uni execs keep burning money with zero accountability. $140k for “thought leadership” junket, ~$250k for soundproof toilet (still won’t release the costs). Every year gets worse. Staff cut. Research defunded. Labor promised reform in 2022. 94/150 seats. Still nothing. Disgusting.

Econ profs: if you're teaching intermediate micro, housing is a great topic for digging into the fundamentals. (link below)

🚨Publication Day🚨 Excited that our paper ‘Experimental Methods: Eliciting and Measuring Social Norms’ (joint with Charness, Gneezy & Krupka) is finally out in JEBO. We hope norms scholars & practitioners alike find it useful. Link (Open Access!): doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo…

nowadays this person would just ask ChatGPT this question and be told “wow! Most people wouldn’t have such insight and innovative ideas”

Just made a manuscript/PAP feedback GPT built from 150+ of my reviews - identifies problems and provides actionable feedback on the points that I raise most frequently chatgpt.com/g/g-68af4d1939… Anyone can use - try it out! (Editors/authors: feel free to cut me out of the loop 😉)

This platform is good sometimes

🚨 New paper! In "Rethinking Citizen Competence," Steven Klein and I argue that common concerns about citizen competence do not reflect recent evidence, (especially from misinfo literature). We're more competent than we give ourselves credit for. Link: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Beautifully clear thread explaining one of the most important research findings on human cooperation

If you’re interested in the strength of our democracy, this is worth a read. Labor & the Coalition rammed electoral reform laws through parliament to make it harder for minor parties & indies. Now there's a bill to reduce transparency in the FOI system. theconversation.com/why-the-rise-o…

We have just posted our job ad for a faculty position in econometrics. Application deadline is November 23, 2025. econjobmarket.org/positions?show…

I’m often asked: Can deep learning (efficiently) approximate functions in economics with kinks? Yes, it can. To illustrate, my fantastic coauthor Mahdi E Kahou has coded the solution to the canonical McCall (1970) labor search model using deep learning. 👉 In this simple model,

No, Australia does not need new cities. My new essay sets the record straight: we have a lot of cities, but we aren’t using them as well as we could be. To make our cities more successful, we have to open up a lot more land for commercial uses to enable agglomeration.

CrimeSolutions.gov is no longer operational, but lucky for you and me, in the spirit of open science, Andy Wheeler scraped it and stashed it on his GitHub. andrewpwheeler.com/2025/09/26/i-s…

Boosting demand without increasing supply just reshuffles who misses out. afr.com/property/resid…

Where’s the evidence for why these changes to create more secrecy and less transparency are supposedly needed? Public service can’t point to any. This is a terrible bill that should die an early death in the parliament. region.com.au/no-bots-about-…

We are hiring (a bit)! This year we are on the market for multiple positions at the junior and senior market and here is why you should join us (1/n): econjobmarket.org/positions/11805 econjobmarket.org/positions/11635

careful with your AI-generated emails folks!

This new work from Grattan Institute is nothing short of seminal. For too long we have let our cities be locked up by bad, unjustifiable land use and housing policy. But the tide is turning on bad policy—and that is for the better. x.com/GrattanInst/st…