[122] Arresting Flexibility: A QJE field experiment on police behavior with about 40 outcome variables - Data Colada A forthcoming paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE), "A Cognitive View of Policing" (htm), reports results from a field experiment showing that teaching police officers to "consider differ...

Did a police training improve officers' behavior during arrests?

A forthcoming QJE paper with a flexible pre-registration and key p-values of p=.048 & p=.051 says yes.

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Gender Bias and Property Taxes Gender bias distorts the economic behavior and outcomes of women and households. We investigate gender biases in property taxes. We analyze records of more than 100,000 property tax appeal hearings an...

New working paper! We study 100k+ property tax appeals hearings, documenting gender biases in hearing outcomes. We leverage 2.7 years of hearing audio recordings to try to understand how these arise. Conclusion? Implicit bias. arxiv.org/abs/2412.12610

Well, maybe this isn't the "best part" but it's a good one...

I think the best part about LLMs (hallucination aside) is that students can ask over and over again until they understand a concept, without ever feeling embarrassed... www.fastcompany.com/90959893/ai-...