
Wei Yang Tham
@wytham88
@OSU_Econ → @LISHarvard → @UofT
Economics of Science and Innovation
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I had the opportunity to speak with Brian Owens at Nature Index about why firms invest in scientific research and what drives their decisions to publish their findings. Grateful for the thoughtful reporting: nature.com/articles/d4158…









What do we think of Air Canada for long haul flights? Cc: Ryan Briggs


The Economics of Bicycles for the Mind. With Joshua Gans and Ajay Agrawal. A bicycle amplifies human locomotion. Computers and AI amplify human intelligence. We model such cognitive tools, showing when they affect productivity, inequality, & teams. nber.org/papers/w34034


Developing a method to estimate producers' productivity beliefs in settings where output quantities and input prices are unobservable and using it to evaluate allocative efficiency in the market for science, from Fabio Bertolotti, @kroymyers, and Wei Yang Tham nber.org/papers/w34000





Slides from my discussion of (great) paper "Conversations at scale" docs.google.com/presentation/d… Interestingly, we're already seeing startups implement these kinds of ideas in market research e.g., Listen Labs & Voicepanel with seemingly great success
