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LLMs make historical data digitization more accessible. MUCH cheaper than outsourcing, and easier to use in non-standard cases than a deep learning stack. A new project with Christopher Severen and Veronica Backer Peral (and Claude 3.5 Sonnet) Slides: bit.ly/4780KKO 🧵

How big is the subscription cancelation problem? We signed up for and canceled 47 newspaper subscriptions to find out. New Briefing Book piece with Giacomo Fraccaroli and Zahra Thabet Short 🧵👇 briefingbook.info/p/how-big-is-t…

Is it just me or is the NBER (site, VPN, server) down right now?

Very, very happy to share that the EHA has awarded my paper on Proxenia the Arthur H. Cole Prize for the outstanding contribution to the JEH this year! It's a great honor, and I'm really grateful!

FYI at 7:03pm the power unexpectedly shut off in my neighborhood and is still out. So any grad students that want to come survey my neighbors and use the geographic discontinuity of the outage to estimate the effects of debates on opinion/voting, let me know!

Concepts of a plan.

Paging Beatrice Cherrier

🥳New paper! "Do Housing Supply Skeptics Learn?"🎆 Yessir, they do! And when they do, they become *much* more supportive of market-rate housing development. 1/🧵 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Upzone Update back for the fall. mbtacommunities.bostonindicators.org/raising-the-ro…

NIMBY Mayoral Candidate Starter Pack: - Let's fight climate change! - But not by letting more people live in Newton with shorter transit, more walkability, and fewer cars #mapoli

Counterfactuals are important. In this case, the counterfactual to ChatGPT is probably a 22 year old who recently read (skimmed?) the Wikipedia article about your firm

If you are taking (or teaching!) a course on statistical inference/regression, I have a draft textbook available for free mattblackwell.github.io/gov2002-book/ Recently updated to introduce design- and modeled-based inference. Emphasis on intuition and rigor.

Latest Upzone Update: Analysis of Milton case by Henry Korman, News summaries with links, Calendar of town meetings, Latest compliance counts, Info re. new ADU law + HousingWorks funding. Reminder to send me updates/insights for the next one. mbtacommunities.bostonindicators.org/whos-in-charge…

Today on Forked Lightning: In defense of email jobs Office work and the economic value of better communication forklightning.substack.com/p/in-defense-o… The first of a two-part series about the rise (and fall?) of white-collar office and administrative support occupations With a special nod to

My 4-year-old is becoming a Hegelian, please send help

Happy Mark Bellhorn Day to all those who celebrate which I assume is just Andy Hall