When admissions are correlated, diversifying your college applications is the optimal strategy. We spoke with Nageeb Ali and Ran Shorrer of Penn State about why the standard advice to apply to reach, match, and safety schools is sound. www.aeaweb.org/research/app...
Since this is my sabbatical and will be teaching only one class, I’d love to share my research more widely, so if anyone is interested in inviting me for a research seminar, I’d be very happy to visit. Especially anywhere within a 5-6 hour driving distance from SF (I hate flying!).
Yesterday was my temporary last class at USF, and on the same day, I signed a contract to join @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as a visiting Assistant Professor of Economics.
Interested in "irrational" economic behavior? Check out my interview with @aleximas.bsky.social on his new behavioral economics book "The Winner's Curse" posted on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. My co-host on this episode is my colleague @robizon.bsky.social. newbooksnetwork.com/the-winners-...
New study shows that unfettered access to ChatGPT can harm student learning.
Without guardrails, students use ChatGPT as a “crutch” while learning and subsequently perform worse on their own.
But (!) these negative learning effects are largely mitigated by safeguards one can build into ChatGPT.
I’m hosting a Session at #WEAI100: STRUCTURAL BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
🗓 Sun, Jun 22 | 10:15–12 PDT
📍 SF Marriott Marquis, L2, Foothill D
Papers on:
🎮 Nationalism in games
🚕 Market homophily
💡 Online Knowledge contributions
🔥 Hot-hand belief
#WEAI #BehavioralEcon #Econsky
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We are excited to share our new working paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2502.12323
If you use ML predictions (like remote-sensed data) as outcomes, the resulting regression coefficients can be biased by measurement error. With @megan-ayers.bsky.social @mdgordo.bsky.social @eliana-stone.bsky.social