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

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

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...

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.

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

'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

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.

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

#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.

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

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/...

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

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.

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:

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

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...