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I recently gave an expert testimonial about the trade-offs between defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) plans. 💹 I highlight how the contractual characteristics of DB and DC plans cater to the preferences of public employees, in particular, for hiring and

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🚨 Exciting Release! 🚨 Insightful CNBC documentary about the fiscal challenges of state governments across the U.S. 🇺🇸 produced by the amazing Carlos Waters. youtube.com/watch?v=MYXMQn… We explore the federal stimulus during COVID-19, the critical role public pensions play in

This is the best paper written so far about the impact of AI on scientific discovery

It's worth emphasizing why this paper is important, economically: Automating *science* is fundamentally different from automating production of cars/toys/stuff (for the same reason that science/ideas are fundamentally different from goods -- ideas are infinitely usable)

In my book Local Interests, I show which interest groups are most active in city politics and examine how they influence public policies, including policies on housing development and spending on the police. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

🙌 Whew, this week has been a whirlwind! We're just wrapping up the last day of our 5-day generative AI intensive course on @Kaggle - where you can learn all about prompt engineering, vector databases and retrieval, embeddings, agents, fine-tuning open-source models, evals, and

#econjobmarket candidates, as you're cramming in those 11/15 apps, don't forget Hoover Fellow (Hoover Institution) apps are due Monday 11/18! --> Up to 10 years. 100% own research time - no teaching, no splitting time on other projects. Great pay. Great location. Friendly colleagues.

Today in nature, we’re presenting GenCast: our new AI weather model which gives us the probabilities of different weather conditions up to 15 days ahead with state-of-the-art accuracy. ☁️⚡ Here’s how the technology works. 🧵goo.gle/49trAOv

Great write-up of the results from my survey on Generative AI Use in U.S. Public Sector at the Hoover Institution. A quarter of civil servants are already using generative AI for public-sector work tasks and that number is expected to grow rapidly over the next year. While it trails

“The adoption of #AI in the public sector is quickly gaining momentum. Adoption at this point outpaces institutional safeguards and available training options,” according to a survey by Hoover Institution fellow @OG_Giesecke. More insights from the survey here: hoover.org/generative-ai-…

Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would

Major revision "Local Government Valuation" is out! Check the new version at: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🚨 New Public Pension Data - Highlight 1 🚨 Total employer contributions reached a record of 190 bn in FY'23 - equivalent to 8.75% of own-source revenues. The contributions cover the service cost + a fraction of the interest cost of the unfunded pension liability. To stabilize

I stand corrected. The formula is not deficit/imports. The formula is surplus/(imports * ε * φ), where ε = -4 and φ = 0.25. That happens to equal deficits/imports. ustr.gov/issue-areas/re… via Erica York

700M images across 130M users in a week:

Experimental results in Pennsylvania are consistent with those from my AI adoption survey in the public sector. Employees not only save time but appr. 70% report that GenAI improves their work quality in comparison to non AI-assisted work. Read more about the survey: