Anderson Frailey
@andersonfrailey.bsky.social
(Assistant) econ professor. Interests include privacy, cybercrime, and talking about the 2006 Rose Bowl andersonfrailey.github.io
Latest post, on the extremes of trying to making life mathematical: kucharski.substack.com/p/solving-ma...
Turns out, even if you use generic country identifiers, like numbers instead of country names, Copilot will still find differences where they don't exist. It may even assign countries to each identifier!
Adam Kucharski@adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat happened when I got Copilot to analyse data on career aspirations? You might be surprised by what it found... kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...
Reupping this because early registration ends today!
Anderson Frailey@andersonfrailey.bsky.social · 3mo agoInterested in the economics of information security? Come to the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security in Berkeley, CA this June! The conference will feature interdisciplinary work on information, security, and privacy. It is also hybrid if you would prefer to attend remotely #EconSky
Interested in the economics of information security? Come to the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security in Berkeley, CA this June! The conference will feature interdisciplinary work on information, security, and privacy. It is also hybrid if you would prefer to attend remotely #EconSky
Going back to beamer after a semester of exclusively using typst to make slides is...rough. Almost instant compilation and the ability to navigate through the source code using the preview window is such a quality of life improvement
Every day I'm reminded why my FanGraphs membership is worth every penny
Ben Clemens@benclemens.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe're soft launching a new FanGraphs Lab tool, "Paired Pitches." If you're enough of a baseball degen to follow me on social media, you're our target audience. I'd love to hear what you think: www.fangraphs.com/lab/paired-pitches
With Opening Day upon us, I have my projections for the year! A few notes: - Milwaukee almost always over performs. On my todo list is figuring out why. - The Dodgers are favorites to win the World Series, but the field still has an 80 percent chance - The AL East is projected to be very fun
📢 NEA @ ASSA 2027 Submissions open for sessions & papers (Jan 3–5, 2027 in DC) 🗓 Due By: April 19, 2026 🔗 nea.submittable.com/submit Topics include stratification economics, inequality, labor, public policy, and race & economic outcomes. Encouraging grad students & early-career folks to submit!
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This is a very good post. My current approach to using LLMs is to split tasks into those that help develop the idea (e,g., writing and exploratory data analysis) and those that check a box (e.g., writing code to pull data from a well documented API)
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham@paulgp.com · 5mo agoMy attempt at articulating why I think LLMs are a clear net positive for all research, and it's a mistake to ignore it despite private concerns: paulgp.com/2026/03/16/r...
An obscure methodological tweak -- a change in the source of data on the price of legal services -- resulted in meaningfully lower monthly PCE inflation in January. That's prompting questions about why the change was made and why it wasn't disclosed publicly. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b... #EconSky
Change in Data Sources Led to Lower Inflation Reading
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Opera, espresso, fancy jacket, little kisses - Team Italy is winning because they've embraced a philosophy of nice treats.
I’m making some final edits to my job market paper before submitting it (‼️) and 1) it’s quite good imo. 2) I’m so excited to, at least temporarily, have it off my desk
Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...
I need the curling equivalent of statcast. I want stone spin rates. Break. Exit speed. Give me all the data
What I’ve learned from SEA and #ASSA2026 is that every session on DID needs to be in the biggest room possible. Perhaps the nearest stadium or arena
The AEA has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in AEA activities. See the full statement here. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
Statement from the American Economic Association
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CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.
Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
If I were a fan of the Dodgers or Blue Jays I'd simply be dead
Kinda nuts that we're interviewing managers during play in game 7 of the World Series. I think the viewers could survive without it
“In play, run(s)” feels a bit redundant here
Mike Petriello@mikepetriello.bsky.social · 9mo agoHow on earth do you put this pitch here
I don’t want to hear another bad word about Arch 😤
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