Tell your PhD students: NBER Digital Economics and AI PhD workshop submission deadline is December 1. Apply here: www.nber.org/calls-papers...

Digital Economics and AI Tutorial

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The NBER Digital Economics and AI conference submission deadline is coming up on December 1. Submit here: www.nber.org/conferences/...

Digital Economics and AI Meeting, Spring 2026

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Abundant AI geniuses will be great, but only if we can work out what to use them for, from Ajay K. Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social, and Avi Goldfarb https://www.nber.org/papers/w34316

Details on how to access anonymized data from the Creative Destruction Lab, including a description of dataset construction and included variables, from Amir Sariri, Evgenia Gatov, Geneva Neal, Kyle Robinson, Sonia Sennik, Wei Yang Tham, Michael Vertolli, and Av... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34127

The Economics of Bicycles for the Mind. Working paper with @joshgans.bsky.social and Ajay Agrawal. A bicycle amplifies human locomotion. Computers & AI amplify human intelligence. We model cognitive tools, showing when they affect productivity, inequality, & teams. www.nber.org/papers/w34034

What happens when good products fail? Dinara Akchurina and I have a new paper looking at false positives in COVID rapid tests. Details here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... (1/2)

AI Can Strengthen Canada’s Economy — If We Let It - @avigoldfarb.bsky.social joined the Canada’s Economy, Explained podcast from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce chamber.ca/ai-can-stren...

AI Can Strengthen Canada's Economy — If We Let It - Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Avi Goldfarb joins host Marwa Abdou to explain why Canada’s early leadership in research hasn’t led to widespread adoption.

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Mike Scherer, a leader in industrial organization economics, in the study of innovation, and in many other topics since the 1960s, has died at 92. Strikingly eclectic, he wrote (inter alia) about weapons procurement and the commercialization of classical music. More than anything /1

Our work now published showing how better AI can improve both accuracy and diversity in hiring relative to supervised learning tools and status-quo human hiring.

The Review of Economic Studies (REStud)@reveconstudies.bsky.social · last yr.

Li, @lindseyraymond.bsky.social & @peterbergman.bsky.social show that incorporating exploration into an interview screening algorithm improves demographic diversity & hiring efficiency, while traditional supervised learning-only tools improve hiring rates at the expense of minority applicants. 👇

Forthcoming NBER Economics of AI & Political Economy volume. Draft chapters here: www.nber.org/books-and-ch...

The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Political Economy

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'Ajay Agrawal (University of Toronto), Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford University) and Anton Korinek (University of Virginia and CEPR) jointly present "The Economics of Transformative AI: A Research Agenda".' @cepr.org @akorinek.bsky.social #ai #EconSky

CEPR Webinar Series on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence - 1

YouTube video by CEPR & VideoVox Economics

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Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

The Collapse of Ego Depletion

Science's Biggest Self-Control Failure

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NBER Innovation Boot Camp is back this summer for a 4th run (thanks open_phil!)! Lectures by Heidi Williams, Pierre Azoulay, Ina Ganguli, Ben Jones, Chad Jones, Kyle Myers, and me, a great policy panel and keynotes, plus attendance at Summer Institute innovation session. www.nber.org/calls-papers...

⏰ Deadline approaching ⏰ -- send us your best work on Behavioral IO and Marketing by 12/15 #econsky

Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️@avnershlain.bsky.social · 2y ago

CALL FOR PAPERS 📈📉 The Behavioral IO and Marketing Symposium (biomsymposium.org) will be held on 5/15-16 at UMichigan. This is an opportunity for IO and Quantitative Marketing researchers working on behavioral economics topics to interact. Submit to biom-symposium@umich.edu by *December 15, 2024*.

#econsky Economists: If you ever wondered what is “quantitative marketing” about, @avigoldfarb.bsky.social’s syllabus is a great place to fill in the gap. If you never wondered about it - you can learn about it nonetheless.

Avi Goldfarb@avigoldfarb.bsky.social · 2y ago

My PhD syllabus for Introduction to Quantitative Marketing @rotmanschool. Updated for 2025. Comments welcome. Feel free to suggest additional papers. Self promotion encouraged! All University of Toronto PhD students welcome to audit. Please get in touch.

My PhD syllabus for Introduction to Quantitative Marketing @rotmanschool. Updated for 2025. Comments welcome. Feel free to suggest additional papers. Self promotion encouraged! All University of Toronto PhD students welcome to audit. Please get in touch.

Super excited to publicly launch "All Day TA" (http://www.alldayta.com), a product @joshgans.bsky.social and I have been working on with our team over the last year. Short version: if you teach in spring, you will want to use this! It's the future of higher education. A short thread: 1/x

🌟 12 Days of SRI! 🌟 Data-driven, AI-aligned. In May, leading experts from diverse fields gathered at SRI’s annual conference to discuss the future of AI research. 🔥Catch up on the key takeaways: uoft.me/sri-absint24

Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2024 fosters innovation and collaboration — Schwartz Reisman Institute

At SRI’s annual academic conference, leading researchers from diverse fields came together to tackle the complexities of AI alignment and how to better understand the social impacts of data-driven tec...

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The Economics Department at the University of Pittsburgh is hiring! We have an Open Rank position. You can find details and application instructions here: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

NBER Digital Economics and AI meeting at Stanford. Deadline December 16. www.nber.org/conferences/...

Digital Economics and AI Meeting, Spring 2025

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Will there be an AI Era? Reflections on going to see Taylor Swift. open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...

Will there be an AI Era?

Reflections on Taylor Swift

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If you submit your papers to me at QME, I will tell you to ignore the part of the referee report that complains about results not being surprising.

John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 2y ago

A reviewer says to you, “your results are not surprising.” What do you say back to them?

Academic intergrity is an important and difficult topic to cover well. But I think the gossipy speculative one-dimensional tone of this article is not constructive, does a poor job of conveying what is actually going on & undermines the important topic being covered. A long thread w/ some examples:

Daniel Engber@engber.bsky.social · 2y ago

In 2023, Harvard Business School suspended a star professor over charges of research misconduct. As it happens, one of her papers also had funny data from a *different* B-school superstar -- a "mad, fraudulent unicorn,” per @jamesheathers.bsky.social... (1/3) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Latest in HBR on generative AI. hbr.org/2024/11/gene...

Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine

To understand the strategic implications of AI’s new capabilities, managers need a framework for when AI will be helpful and when it might fail. Under the hood, generative AI tools are still predictio...

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In general, people who are not members of NBER can submit papers to be considered at NBER conferences. Here's the link to the current calls for papers: www.nber.org/calls-papers...

Open Calls for Papers, Proposals, and Applications

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