🚀Our field experiment (Yan Chen Alain Cohn & Al Roth) on Twitter shows that social media promotion can boost job market outcomes, especially for women❗️ ✅Job market candidates in the treatment group received one additional flyout, with women receiving 0.9 more job offers.

I enjoyed being a participant in this study. For science.

New working paper on social media promotion and job market outcomes - more visibility on Twitter, one more flyout, women in the treatment get 0.9 more job offers.

Reactions to this are interesting. We often randomise money, infrastructure, job training, on mostly poor people. Even if we expect one group to be better off. Either RCT without equipoise are unethical or they are ethical. I hope economists being subjects is not relevant.

I recommend Paul's thoughtful comment thread on our paper. He read the paper and the appendices. Thanks Paul paulgp

People sometimes find CDFs unintuitive. Here's how to understand them intuitively. A CDF is just magnitudes plotted over ranks.

This also makes FOSD intuitive. Suppose male hights FOSD female heights. This just means: The tallest man is taller than the tallest woman. The 2nd-tallest man is taller than the 2nd-tallest woman. Etc. The k-th tallest man is taller than the k-th tallest woman, for all k.

I hope to see many exciting papers there, think of applying, should be fun!!

Very happy to be among the inaugural class of ESA fellows.

My friend and co-author YingHua He died of kidney cancer this past week. YingHua was among the most brilliant economists I have the good fortune to have met. He was kind, funny and full of good ideas. I miss him and will always cherish the time we had together.

Just received a youtube recording of #YingHua on his research on school choice, sharing his smiles, laughter and wisdom with the world: youtube.com/watch?v=yMD3_G…

Back @NBERpub and psyched to present "The Ms. Allocation of Talent" with @MoritzLubczyk dropbox.com/scl/fi/4bq6446… (1/6)

Really good analysis on ChatGPT and teaching

Just joined. I am in for good equilibria.

BREAKING: Bill banning Chinese student visas introduced today by Rep. Moore. AASF cautions this would harm the talent pipeline of Asian American scientists, scholars, and researchers, undermining U.S. leadership in science and innovation.

BREAKING: Nianli Ma, wife of Prof. XiaoFeng Wang, will speak at our 4/14 Town Hall. Please sign on to our letter expressing concerns abt Wang's termination & adherence to IU's due process policies, as well as broader implications for research community. tinyurl.com/AASFStateofPla…

Urgent - We request Wang’s reinstatement & ask that IU grant him his due process rights & chance to defend himself. The letter also provides critical insights into the allegations & impact on the research community. Add your signature by 8 pm ET on 4/14: aasforum.org/2025/04/11/asi…

Here is my interview at Behavioural Science Uncovered on Social Media and Job Market Success: bsuncovered.com

Special issue on human-AI interactions at Experimental Economics.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said: “It's not likely that you'll lose a job to AI, you're going to lose the job to somebody who uses AI”