New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social. arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536

New Paper Alert! Read the thread below for key takeaways from “Does Q&A Boost Engagement? Health Messaging Experiments in the United States and Ghana” by @erikakirgios.bsky.social @susanathey.bsky.social @angeladuckworth.bsky.social et al.

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What happens if you *ask* instead of *tell*? Turns out, teasing people with a question before sharing a fact can shape whether people engage with critical health information. Read our new paper in Management Science to learn more: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10....

During the @gsb.stanford.edu 100 Faculty Celebration of Scholarship @susanathey.bsky.social highlighted the GSB’s proud tradition of synergy between business and practice during her presentation. Listen to her thoughts and more in the podcast: stanford.io/3K8mcrz

A Century of Impact

In 1925, Herbert Hoover, a Stanford alum and future U.S. president, had an idea. “A graduate School of Business Administration is urgently needed upon the Pacific Coast,” he wrote.

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Earlier this month @susanathey.bsky.social joined Stanford University President Levin, @siepr.bsky.social Director @nealemahoney.bsky.social and other distinguished faculty to connect over cutting-edge research developments at Stanford Open Minds New York.

Listen to Raj Chetty talk about how surrogate indices make it possible to make decisions more quickly using multiple short-term outcomes to predict long-term effects with @nber.org www.nber.org/research/vid...

Check out @susanathey.bsky.social’s interview on how AI-powered after-the-fact quality checks boost driver performance at Uber—and what it means when AI can track compliance. Insights via @StanfordGSB. www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/how...

How Uber Steers Its Drivers Toward Better Performance

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“Governments will play a key role…in whether we actually develop the technology that will help lower-skilled workers become more productive by using AI to augment them with expertise that previously was difficult to acquire.”

AI & digitisation are rapidly reshaping the way we work. Policymakers need to understand how, and what to do about it. Watch @Susan_Athey speak to G20 leaders about these issues tomorrow 16 July @ 13:30 CET. #G20SouthAfrica bit.ly/3GyMFgm or bit.ly/44PTXFP

If we know someone’s career history, how well can we predict which jobs they’ll have next? Read our profile of @keyonv.bsky.social to learn how ML models can be used to predict workers’ career trajectories & better understand labor markets. medium.com/@gsb_silab/k...

Foundation models make great predictions. How should we use them for estimation problems in social science? New PNAS paper @susanathey.bsky.social & @keyonv.bsky.social & @Blei Lab: Bad news: Good predictions ≠ good estimates. Good news: Good estimates possible by fine-tuning models differently 🧵

Online course certificates (from MOOCs) are booming (40M+ learners in 2024). But do these credentials actually help people get jobs? Our team investigated this in a new study by @susanathey.bsky.social & Emil Palikot 👇.

How can digital tech empower healthcare providers and improve patient outcomes? 🌍🩺 Read our interview with @gsbsilab.bsky.social affiliate and World Bank economist Berk Ozler to learn how a tablet-based app helped nurses provide patients with personalized counseling… medium.com/@gsb_silab/b...

Berk Özler: Helping Nurses Help Patients with Personalized Counseling in Cameroon

Berk Özler was puzzled. He was reading in a news story that in the early 2010s, nearly half of pregnancies in the United States were…

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