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Melissa Dell

@melissaldell

Economics Professor @Harvard. Development economics, political economy, economic history, deep learning methods for data curation.

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Thanks Pablo Querubin for suggesting we use AI to query historical articles most similar to 2024 predictions. The model pulled celebrity psychic Jeane Dixon (1969) on Vietnam and a 1931 article on the folly of gloomy prophecies. newsdejavu.github.io/niels%20bohr/k…

Thanks <a href="/pquerubo/">Pablo Querubin</a> for suggesting we use AI to query historical articles most similar to 2024 predictions. The model pulled celebrity psychic Jeane Dixon (1969) on Vietnam and a 1931 article on the folly of gloomy prophecies. newsdejavu.github.io/niels%20bohr/k…
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Empirical political economy’s impact on political philosophy. Nice full page article by The Economist on our recent paper on the origins of government. Article: economist.com/finance-and-ec… Paper: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… Interview: aeaweb.org/research/econo…

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I have had a pre-doc opportunity open up: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13296. For those who may have applied to a past position prior to March 1 and are interested, please resubmit your materials. Position combines social science questions with big data and deep learning.

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Visual communication is key. Thrilled to discover the mini-course "Visual Design in Scholarly Communication" by the phenomenally talented Shannon Shen better-visual.github.io #econtwitter

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Attention recent PhDs and advanced doctoral candidates in the social sciences! Apply to our Academy Scholars Program for a two-year, in-residence postdoctoral fellowship—with stipend. Application deadline 9/20/24. Spread the word! ow.ly/pjcy50SKmxq

Attention recent PhDs and advanced doctoral candidates in the social sciences! Apply to our Academy Scholars Program for a two-year, in-residence postdoctoral fellowship—with stipend. Application deadline 9/20/24. Spread the word! ow.ly/pjcy50SKmxq
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Interesting tool to turn research papers into AI generated podcast discussions that provide a high level overview: illuminate.google.com/home?pli=1 Fed it some of my papers and it did a very reasonable job, especially with the ML pubs. #econtwitter

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Why do some regions thrive economically while others struggle? This year’s Nobel Laureates examine how societal institutions shape prosperity. Explore my column to learn more about how their work has reshaped our understanding of global wealth disparities cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

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Excited to present at #TEC2024 on the potential of embedding models to enrich economic research! Many economists leverage tools like ChatGPT, but deep neural networks hold even richer potential. Embedding models are covered in more depth in my article arxiv.org/pdf/2407.15339

Excited to present at #TEC2024 on the potential of embedding models to enrich economic research! Many economists leverage tools like ChatGPT, but deep neural networks hold even richer potential. Embedding models are covered in more depth in my article arxiv.org/pdf/2407.15339
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I have a predoc opening! This position will involve working with historical U.S. local newspaper data to understand Americans' varied perspectives on key issues across a century. Applicants can upload materials here (the listing describes a different project - sorry, I was