This study find large gender differences in willingness to point out.... a mistake in someone's work. I think I know why!

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"comments that criticize or correct a published study are 20% to 40% less likely than regular papers to have a female author" doi.org/10.1162/rest...

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Economic outcomes often depend on the distribution of some maximum value (e.g. the highest valuation, best idea, or lowest cost). If the average number of options is large, do such outcomes change when some agents have more options than others? 1/ A thread about this paper 🧵

Economic outcomes often depend on the distribution of some maximum value (e.g. the highest valuation, best idea, or lowest cost). If the average number of options is large, do such outcomes change when some agents have more options than others? 1/ A thread about this paper 🧵

Excited to see this! A thread coming soon…

Econometrica@ecmaeditors.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Economic outcomes often depend on the distribution of some maximum value (eg highest valuation, best idea, lowest cost). If the average number of options is large, how do such outcomes change when some agents have more options than others? @sephorahmangin.bsky.social buff.ly/I0CFaj4

How do firms search for and screen workers? When do the best workers match with the best firms?

Call for Papers! 4th DC Search and Matching will be 4/25-26. Submission deadline 3/10. Send us your papers! www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

In NYC there is a shop selling cashmere sweaters for dogs, in Amsterdam there is a toothbrush shop. If you are a goth looking for a partner you should move to a city. Finally, there is a forthcoming JET paper explaining this www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Spatial search

This paper considers a random search model where some locations provide sellers with better chances of meeting many buyers than other locations (for e…

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Zero-sum thinking is a key mindset that shapes how we view the world. A little thread to highlight our work on its roots with @sahilchinoy.bsky.social, @nathannunn.bsky.social, Sandra Sequeira.🧵1/23 scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantc...

When is competition price-increasing? My latest research has just been published online in RAND: doi.org/10.1111/1756...

When is competition price‐increasing? The impact of expected competition on prices

We examine the effect of expected competition on markups in a random utility model where the number of competing firms may differ across consumers. Firms observe consumers' utility shocks and set pri...

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Some of the most important lottery anomalies from the behavioral risk literature (e.g., probability weighting and loss aversion) actually have nothing to do with risk. They also arise in perfectly deterministic settings. Lead article in the latest AER issue: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

I am thankful for the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, the Implicit Function Theorem, and the Chain Rule.

Peter Hull@instrumenthull.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thankful for the Law of Iterated Expectations and the Central Limit Theorem

If only there was a starter pack called "Everyone I follow on Twitter who is on Bluesky"

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) against women is a major public health and inequality concern. It's not clear what causes it or how to reduce it. Gaby Deschamps' JMP considers that IPV is positively correlated with motherhood, and asks if we can understand why. www.gabrieladeschamps.com/research

November 12, 1973 --- The day Philosophy & Public Affairs started treating Rawls like Jesus.

Making it easier for people to get high has some negative public health impacts. www.nber.org/system/files...

Drop politics. Drop regressions. Drop reading papers. Listen to this. It's OK to get emotional. open.spotify.com/album/6bqe0N...

SIOE 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS Join us in Sydney, at UNSW, from 24-26 of August 2025! 🚨Submission deadline: January 15, 2025 Looking for individual papers or panel submissions. Call for papers / instructions here: call.sioe.org/call Questions? Email conference2025@sioe.org