If talented young people live in poverty we are all losing out. The paper ‘Invisible Geniuses’ is forthcoming in the American Economic Review. The Working Paper version is here imf.org/-/media/Files/…

If we want that more people devote their energy to making progress against large global problems, we should make sure that more people know that it is possible to make progress against such problems. ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-g…

New NBER paper on estimating the Value of Time (VOT) Prices and wait times on Lyft app were randomized across 14 million sessions in a dozen large US markets with Goldszmidt, List, Muir, Smith, & Wang nber.org/papers/w28208 ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura/0… ungated \thread

*Huge news* France launches "Fund for Innovation in Development" chaired by Esther Duflo The Nobel Prize MIT Economics J-PAL. Inspired by @GlobalDevLab USAID + Global Innovation Fund. Gov funding mechanisms for innovation + evidence are too rare & very needed. Devex devex.com/news/exclusive…

We are hopeful that the Advances with Field Experiments conference will be in person on September 23-24, 2021 UChicago Economics SAVE THE DATE! Three keynotes are: Marianne Bertrand Nick Bloom Raj Chetty

Something I've been working on & graphs I can't resist sharing... Post-2008, load-shedding has been instituted nationally for ~5600 hours (~230 days). Accounting for severity of the different stages, the typical household has been without power for ~830 hours (~35 straight days)

Loadshedding 2022 Wrapped! 😅

A nice illustration of the pitfalls of non-theory-motivated transformations of dep. vars. by @JohnMullahy Edward Norton nber.org/papers/w30735?…

Today I shared a little about my day-to-day work environment. Specifically: - VSCode with R + Data.Table + Copilot - Running on Google Cloud VM - Parallel processing techniques Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere & I want to promote knowledge diffusion for applied research practices. DM to get involved!

The 🎲🦜 (GPT4) and I just had an hour-long chat about information goods & pricing strategy. Simply astonishing docs.google.com/document/d/1Jb…

A large amount of the world’s population has no access to grid-based #electricity & relies on #offgrid lighting solutions. This study explores #consumerbehavior & the inefficiencies in using rechargeable lamp technology. Read: spkl.io/60164ehhe Serguei Netessine Rowan Clarke

Still hanging out on twitter...err...X? Well, stick around for at least another 24 hours because we---@nickgotis Rowan Clarke Solene Delecourt David Holtz Rem Koning---are about to drop a hot new academic paper!

🚨New working paper! "The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance" osf.io/preprints/osf/… with a badass team @nickgotis Rowan Clarke David Holtz Rem Koning ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Cool new study where entrepreneurs in Kenya were given access to AI mentors. This is different than other studies as the AI was limited to advice, not doing. High performers got a big 20% boost to performance, but low performers took a hit as they could not implement the advice.

Important, insightful, and practical empirical methodological piece by @jiafengkevinc & Jonathan Roth now forthcoming in the QJE

Cool study and give @nickgotis a follow! He’s in our PhD program at Haas and is one to watch out for in the years to come!

I’d like to see more studies of how AI is being used internationally, now that GPT-4 class models are available in 169+ countries (including for free) There is a lot of work in the US & Europe. I have seen 2 nice studies in Africa (teacher & entrepreneur mentoring👇). What else?

Congrats to the incredible team from UC Berkeley Haas who won 1st in the #PAC11 White Paper Competition! Your paper The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance showed how tasks selected for #AI assistance shape who will benefit from Generative AI. @nickgotis