🚨 Join us for the 3rd Transatlantic Political Economy Conference on Oct 9-10 in Montreal! 🚨
I co-organize it with @clpennec.bsky.social and Cevat Giray Aksoy, it will be even better than the first editions!
Send your papers before June 19: forms.gle/4LbupRmMPriH...
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hola Victor! perdon, no entro mucho aca.
En españa por ahora en ebook (puede ser kindle!).
Mil gracias y espero que te guste!
🍁🍁Hello! We hiring in the junior market! 🍁🍁
Apply to work with us at McGill's Econ department!
Full ad: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
Our last publication in the AER: insights, now as a Research Highlight :)
Our paper is finally forthcoming :)
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Our paper Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A field Experiment on #EconTwitter has just been published in the American Economic Review: Insights.
with @brunoferman.bsky.social and Pedro Sant'Anna
In Chile, a program to encourage high school students to become teachers via WhatsApp counseling is trying out an AI chatbot to facilitate scaling.
blogs.iadb.org/educacion/en...
Early analysis shows interesting differences in how students interact with human vs AI counselors.
Paper just accepted to be published in the Journal of Politics :)
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
And this is the link to our first paper (with great Bluesky-less coauthors, of course) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
About tone: We're now analyzing empathy—are AI bots more or less empathetic than humans? And how persuasive is Kai?
Coming soon: Did Kai perform as well as human counselors in increasing applications to teaching programs?
More about what we've learned here blogs.iadb.org/educacion/en...
About content:
- Most Kai’s interactions were factual queries (course info, scholarships), while human counselors handled more subjective questions (e.g. "Am I patient enough to teach?").
Students did not interact the same way with humans or bots
Some early learnings analyzing conversations:
- Kai led with 35% initial engagement > than human counselors (28%)
- Kai responded faster & more factually focused. Kai and humans covered = number of topics per conversation.
- Kai seems more efficient: simillar info, similar engagement, shorter time
FF: now there are AI-powered bots. We created Kai—a 2024 generative AI chatbot on WhatsApp designed for more tailored, adaptive interaction. We trained them for many months. In a new RCT with 43,000+ students, we compared: Human counselor versus Kai (AI agent) vs control.
It's very human intensive. In the same experiment (2020) we used the technology available back then to try to scale it up: scripted bots. They achieved only ⅓ to ½ of those results and they were insignificant.
They lack the engagement and personalization essential in counseling.
Elige Educar’s “Quiero Ser Profe” program in Chile tackles teacher shortages by offering personalized WhatsApp counseling to highschoolers, encouraging them to pursue teaching.
It works (JPE Micro forthcoming). It increased actual enrollement in teaching majors.
BUT...
Scaling successful human-centered programs often encounters the “voltage effect”—they lose impact when expanded to more people. Generative AI may help bridge that gap. Here's a story:
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🚨Call for papers!
We will be hosting this great workshop next autumn, organized by @clpennec.bsky.social, @nicolasajz.bsky.social and our own Cevat Aksoy.
Submit your best political economy work!
Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be held in London on Nov 6-7, 2025. Organized by @nicolasajz.bsky.social, Cevat Aksoy and myself.
The submission deadline is July 4. Apply here (and share widely):
sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...
🚨 Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be in November in London. Organized by @clpennec.bsky.social Cevat Aksoy and me.
The submission deadline is July 4, 2025. Apply here (and RT!):
sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...
Our "(Successful) democracies breed their own support" is out on the last edition of Restud :)
academic.oup.com/restud/artic...
With R Perez Truglia, G Cruces, D Tortarolo and G Vazquez Bare
New piece on the effects of a progressive tax reform in 🇦🇷. Do you pay more or less taxes when you realize the reform is progressive? Does it depend on how it affects your own tax? Do you put your money where your mouth is? All you wanted to know.
All you wanted to know.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
Very nice piece on immigration in Latin America.
And they happen to mention a nice paper on immigration and crime perceptions in Chile by some cool Southamerican researchers :)
www.economist.com/the-americas...
Our "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" with Pedro Sant'Anna and @brunoferman.bsky.social is now forthcoming in the
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American Economic Review Insights (@AEAjournals )
😀😀 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🚨 New WP with RP Truglia D Tortarolo G Vazquez Bare and G Cruces
Do progressive reforms affect compliance?
Does learning that other people's tax are increasing/decreasing affect our own compliance?
Take a look below.
www.nber.org/system/files...
