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Well this will be fun, Sam Dalrymple ! share.google/gF8kFHDneNPguo…

In America young people, city-dwellers and holders of doctorates are among the most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss, writes Stefanie Stantcheva. In a guest essay the Harvard professor explains why economist.com/by-invitation/…

When someone who ordered food after you did, gets theirs first.

📲 Users assign greater value to Instagram and YouTube when TikTok is collectively banned rather than individually deactivated, underscoring the role of network effects in market definition. Research from Leonardo Bursztyn (UChicago Economics) & co-authors. ow.ly/yr3850Wn8Uk

This paper was quite a journey with my excellent coauthor, Ahmad Lashkaripour I’m proud that it found the best home I could imagine. Here is a summary 🧵

Neural networks (e.g., LLMs) make often imperfect predictions, introducing biases into analyses that rely on them. Common empirical economics scenarios fall outside the existing literature on debiasing “black-box AI”. Our paper (with Jake Carlson) on robust and efficient

22/ Excellent recent work by Mallesh Pai-Philipp Strack, and Paweł Doligalski-Dworczak-Akbarpour-Scott Kominers brings fresh perspectives on the Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem.

People in the developing world have an extraordinary demand for insurance. When the cost of an income shock is your life, your behavior becomes warped around avoiding it. Selling insurance allows people to engage in the optimal behavior — but there’s a catch. 1/

Small note: I have spent much of the summer on a new book, tentatively called ANIMALS MATTER. (The book is unlikely to be done soon, but you never know.) (Below is Finley, who helped inspire the book.)

Albert Einstein met fellow Nobel Prize laureate Rabindranath Tagore at his home in the outskirts of Berlin #OTD in 1930. The two distinguished minds explored the concepts of science, consciousness and philosophy. Read an excerpt of their conversation: bit.ly/2JprgmD

My career now spans 44 years. If there’s one enduring thing I’ve learned, it’s that nothing lasts forever. The tough moments, the pressure, the setbacks, they all pass. When you’re in the eye of the storm, it can feel like it’ll never end, but it always does. Stress is

When I got tenure, I decided to use it start a new research agenda, studying US science in the 20th century, how it became dominant, what held it back, and what we can do better. Here's the first pub (with Scott Kim).

Interesting paper out as editor's choice in the latest QJE

Police dog fired for being too friendly, Instead of chasing suspects or sniffing out danger, Gavel preferred belly rubs and making new friends. He later gets new job as a greeter at Queensland's Government House, welcoming visitors and stealing hearts every day. ❤️

A new rule-based linking method for historical Census records based on extra information, offering higher match rates and accuracy than earlier algorithms, from Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Harriet M. Brookes Gray, @K_A_Eriksson, Santiago Pérez, Hannah Postel, Ph.D., Myera Rashid, and Noah

Universities in Canberra are doing so well financially that UNSW thinks it's profitable to enter the market. This is a good sign that the university sector in the city is thriving. Competition is also good for X-efficiency. afr.com/policy/health-…

Two centuries of unequal exchanges To better understand the issues at stake, the World Inequality Lab recently published a historical study on global trade and financial imbalances since 1800 lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2…

One of literature laureate Toni Morrison's most impactful books, 'Beloved' starts with a dedication to "sixty million and more" – the Africans who died during the Atlantic slave trade. In the novel, Morrison takes an unflinching look at slavery's horrors and its lasting scars.

1/5 In 2017, ANU Economics secured funding to hire top junior female economists. The results? Outstanding. They’ve helped turn ANU into one of the world’s leading economics departments. Here’s what they’ve achieved 👇 #EconTwitter #WomenInEcon

Dr Liz Allen This is a good news story for the ANU. It's important to celebrate ANU achievements. I'll say a bit more, as I just saw this tweet and had to stop my car on the side of road to reply. Here it goes: In 2017, Brian Schmidt asked ANU Economics to find a strategy for catapulting