🚨 Call for Papers: AI for Law Workshop @icmlconf.bsky.social (July 10, Seoul 🇰🇷), welcomes submissions across three themes: ⚖️ AI for Legal Reasoning 📊 AI Evaluation for Law 🌍 AI for Access to Justice 📄 Full papers (≤8 pages) ⏰ Deadline: May 22 (AoE) 📄Submission via: openreview.net/group?id=ICM...

New paper out in @thejop.bsky.social : "Immigration, Public Housing, and Support for the French National Front." How does expanding public housing affect far-right support? The answer depends heavily on local conditions, and specifically on local immigrant shares. Paper: doi.org/10.1086/736361

A study of 30,000 Canadian labour agreements shows unions secure a wide range of enforceable rights, including scheduling protections, grievance procedures, and dismissal safeguards. Benjamin W. Arold, @elliottash.bsky.social, W. Bentley MacLeod, Suresh Naidu cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

#QJE Feb 2026, #15, “Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice,” by Ash (@elliottash.bsky.social), Chen, and Naidu: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice*

Abstract. This article empirically studies the effects of the early law and economics movement on the U.S. judiciary. We focus on the Manne Economics Insti

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📢 #CallForPapers for the 11th Monash-Paris-Warwick-Zurich-CEPR Text-As-Data #Workshop! Papers using text, audio, images, or other unstructured data are welcome. Organisers: @elliottash.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social & Philine Widmer Deadline: 13 March cepr.org/events/11th-... #EconSky

📣The Call for Papers for EJ special issue ‘AI Measurement in Applied Economics’ is now open. ⏰Deadline: 15 January 2026 More info here 👉 bit.ly/47sNmS7 @albertobisin.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social

🚨Next time you hire, don’t take it easy! In a new working paper, @elliottash.bsky.social, Jason Sockin, and I show the difficulty of the interview signals to workers whether the job is a good fit. 🚨 Paper link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

⚖️ Measuring Scalar Constructs in Social Science with LLMs with rising (and established) stars in Computational Social Science @haukelicht.bsky.social @rupak-s.bsky.social @patrickwu.bsky.social @pranavgoel.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social @alexanderhoyle.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2509.03116

On Monday, 1 December 2025, we host 💥Sergio Galletta💥 (ETH Zurich), who will present "BallotBot: Can AI Chatbots Lower Voter-Information Barriers?". This is joint work with Elliott Ash and Giacomo Opocher. @sergallett.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @benjaminarold.bsky.social, @elliottash.bsky.social, W. Bentley MacLeod and Suresh Naidu study worker rights in collective bargaining and how legal protections shape bargaining outcomes and wage dynamics. 🔗 rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

Call for Papers: The 4th Annual Zurich Workshop in AI+Economics to be held Dec 5-6, 2025, hosted by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich. Info: eash.cc/AI-econ Submit (by Aug 15th): eash.cc/AI-econ-sub-2025

Check out the latest from the SSRN #blog which includes a list of the top downloaded papers on #AI in Law for Q2 of 2025. Read More: http://spkl.io/63329ABA6R #LawSky #AICommunity

Top Papers on AI in Law

This list includes the top downloaded papers on AI in Law posted in Q1 2025. It also includes the Top 5 Organizations that downloaded the research during this period.

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Work with @yu-fan-768.bsky.social , Yang Tian, @shauli.bsky.social , @mrinmaya.bsky.social , @elliottash.bsky.social Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.01234 (credit to Yu for the McLuhan reference) Github: github.com/y-fn/deconfo...

The Medium Is Not the Message: Deconfounding Text Embeddings via Linear Concept Erasure

Embedding-based similarity metrics between text sequences can be influenced not just by the content dimensions we most care about, but can also be biased by spurious attributes like the text's source ...

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Call for Papers: The 4th Annual Zurich Workshop in AI+Economics to be held Dec 5-6, 2025, hosted by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich. Info: eash.cc/AI-econ Submit (by Aug 15th): eash.cc/AI-econ-sub-2025

Reminder: The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics invites submissions for the collection #Textual #Analysis in #Economics and #Finance. link.springer.com/collections/... #EconSky @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social

Registration is open for the 9th Text-As-Data Workshop! When: 28-29 April 2025 Where: Online Organisers: @elliottash.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social @phinifa.bsky.social More information: cepr.org/events/9th-m... #EconSky #Workshop #Conference

Stellar health economists who want to build a world-class lab in Zurich, see here 👉

Barton Lee@bartonelee2.bsky.social · last yr.

Come join me in Zurich! We’re hiring a Professor of Health Economics (deadline April 30). DM me if you have any questions about our department, ETH 🏫, or Switzerland🇨🇭 ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...

🚨New Working Paper: The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining w/ @elliottash.bsky.social , W. Bentley MacLeod & Suresh Naidu We propose novel NLP methods applied to 30,000 collective bargaining agreements to quantify the value of worker rights. 👉 nber.org/papers/w33605 🧵1/7

Submission deadline extended for the 9th Monash-Paris-Warwick-Zurich-CEPR Text-As-Data #Workshop 📢New deadline: 15 March 2025 Organisers @elliottash.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social & Philine Widmer @pse.bsky.social cepr.org/events/9th-m... #EconSky

Our fantastic co-organizer Philine @phinifa.bsky.social is now also on bluesky! Follow Philine & submit your best work to the 9th edition of the MWPZ- @cepr.org text as data workshop! cc @elliottash.bsky.social

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📢 #CallForPapers for the 9th Monash-Paris-Warwick-Zurich-CEPR Text-As-Data #Workshop! Papers using text, audio, images, or other unstructured data are welcome. Organisers: @elliottash.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social & Philine Widmer @pse.bsky.social 📆10/03/25 cepr.org/events/9th-m... #EconSky

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on Data Science and Law 8/5-8/6, New York City🚨 Have a work in progress at the intersection of data science and law? Join us at @FordhamLawNYC this summer! See submission details here: conference-on-datascience-and-law.github.io

Conference on Data Science and Law

August 5-6, 2025 Welcome to the Conference on Data Science and Law! We aim to showcase the latest research applying computational methods to empirical legal studies, and convene researchers in this ne...

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📣Now hiring: Predoc in Economics and Data Science We are hiring a predoc -- work at ETH Zurich on exciting projects in applied econ (political econ, education, etc.), using AI, NLP, and causal inference. Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11505

Happy to share that @annabindler.bsky.social & I will organize the 16th #TWEC Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime in Berlin. Save the date: 26-27 September 2025. CfP follows next month #econsky

📢 #CallForPapers for the 9th Monash-Paris-Warwick-Zurich-CEPR Text-As-Data #Workshop! Papers using text, audio, images, or other unstructured data are welcome. Organisers: @elliottash.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social & Philine Widmer @pse.bsky.social 📆10/03/25 cepr.org/events/9th-m... #EconSky

Now #live 🔴 David Yanagizawa-Drott of @uzh-econ.bsky.social discusses recent empirical evidence on generative artificial intelligence, with a special focus on human productivity in emerging markets. Host: @elliottash.bsky.social of @ethzurich.bsky.social → youtube.com/live/PYrM7Hu...

Well deserved break ❤️

Alexander Moradi@amoradi.bsky.social · 2y ago

🥊 Ready for the 3rd Bolzano Workshop on Historical Economics! From the majestic South Tyrolean Alps, where economics meets history in a knockout bout of ideas. Electrifying debates and brilliant scholars await. The final program is now available—explore the highlights! @essobecker.bsky.social

The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics invites submissions for the collection #Textual #Analysis in #Economics and #Finance. link.springer.com/collections/... #EconSky @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social

I'm pleased to see our paper, "From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy", online at the Journal of Public Economics. This has been a really fun multi-year collaboration with @elliottash.bsky.social, Sergio Galletta & Matteo Pinna. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the effect of Fox News Channel (FNC) on the mass public’s political preferences and voting behavior …

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We're looking for Postdocs in Economics & Data Science! Join @elliottash.bsky.social and me at @ethzurich.bsky.social, in a highly productive and supportive research environment. Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11199 #econjm #econsky

"How Cable News Reshaped Local Government" by Elliott Ash and Sergio Galletta in AEJ: Applied Economics www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...