Extremely early stage WP about the experiment which inspired his article if you're interested in more details. www.emmawiles.com/storage/ai_e...

Alert for *every* researcher who studies work and / or organizations: See @emmawiles.bsky.social below. I've been thinking about LLMs as affecting tasks, but the effect on organizations could be way bigger if this starts to become a thing. More info in her paper upthread.

Excited to share a new HBR article on some of my recent research with colleagues at BCG about the phenomenon of AI Employees, and why governance is so important for integrating AI agents into your organizations work processes. hbr.org/2026/05/rese...

Last call for PlatStrat! Please submit your favorite platforms related paper by April 17. It's great research, it's fun, it's in Boston right after NBER SI. questromworld.bu.edu/platformstra...

Im an AP at a business school and have work a blazer and slacks every single class I’ve ever taught. however Halloween falls on one of my teaching days this year, it ok to wear a costume to teach on Halloween?

Could anyone who teaches a PhD level management seminar (I’m thinking core theoretical frameworks) in a business school share their syllabus with me?

How many times is too many times for me to bring up the new Taylor Swift album at today’s faculty meeting?

Asked my teenage babysitter who just started vet school to ID a tick. Without blinking, he took a photo and uploaded it to ChatGPT. The Youths are using AI with the same reflex my generation had for googling or watching youtube tutorials.

There are about 100 dynamic constraints that need to be satisfied for my newborn to sleep. If this is representative, I do not see how the human race is still alive

Rough day for those of who work with large companies to study the effects of AI

Huge day for me, frankly

Happy to announce that @edwardwiles.bsky.social and I have a new addition to the family! Welcome to the world, Penelope!

Trump has perfected the art of Pareto Worsening, a change in allocation making at least one person worse off without making a single person better off. Trade war, Medicaid cuts, science cuts, there are no winners here, only losers.

New office decorations just dropped

Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

👏 come on universities, let’s see more of this. Conceding has gotten Columbia jack s***, let’s stand up to the bully together

Relatedly: University President Christopher Eisgruber signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government in an interview with Bloomberg after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the University’s research grants.

🚨 New paper alert, with @johnjhorton.bsky.social! Using an experiment run on a large online labor market, we provide evidence that providing employers access to an AI-written first draft of a job post harms the efficiency of the market. emmawiles.github.io/storage/jobo...

Economists- what’s the norm for cover letters for journal submissions? Yay? Nay? Yay, but they don’t matter? what’s the deal.

This breaks my heart. This research project has been going on for 30 years and studying the long term effects of Type 2 Diabetes (a condition which >10% Americans have) and the effectiveness of various interventions. All because the the funding goes through Columbia on the way to the orgs running it

In addition to being morally wrong this is also just plain old wrong as shown by research by @kevinshih.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is there anything vaguely coordinated we (ex. faculty) can do to try to convince our universities president & administrations to take a hard stance on the side of academic freedom, free speech, and against Trump?

Happy St Patrick’s Day from a Dropkick Murphy’s concert at Fenway! <- Most Bostonian sentence of all time

My husband asked for help on this section of the crossword where something was clearly wrong. On this clue he had put ELLA and said to me, his beloved wife EMMA, “Not sure about ELLA. I’m sure about the E & the A, but I can’t think of any other names that take the form E __ __ A.”

New collective noun for economists just dropped

This bar seems...so high right now

Just called a nail salon to make an appt for manipedis this weekend. Scrolled through instagram while making the appt, was giving the conversation about 20% of my attention, ended it by saying "Love you, bye!" It's not the worst thing that happened this week, but for me personally it's up there

Why are tech people talking about the idea that as something (compute) gets more efficient/cheaper people will use more of it as a paradox? Is it just that “jevons paradox” is sexier than “downward sloping demand curve”? www.npr.org/sections/pla...

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

For those wondering: Yes, I'm uploading the entire 15 GB public-facing CDC.gov website that I downloaded a few days ago...but it's gonna take awhile to upload...

Every country Trump puts tariffs on should fight back with a 100% tariff on Teslas.

Very excited to see the paper this post is based on- it leaves open a lot of questions (are effects driven by the fact that the treatment group simply had more time in school?) but the results look extremely promising for using GenAI as a tutor! blogs.worldbank.org/en/education...

Tragically I have started knitting again, and after a 15 year hiatus I cannot ever remember the word "pattern" and keep calling them "knitting recipes" to the chagrin of everyone I talk to

My husband does not use bookmarks he “just remembers what page he’s on.” To me this is sociopathic behavior- do other people do this??

Brutal, but fair. h/t @johnjhorton.bsky.social theonion.com/pretty-cute-...

This is crazy stuff

Very interesting new paper on the impact of working from home on housing and welfare: in short, because not everyone can do it, and because housing supply is inelastic, the increase in housing prices reduces the welfare of those who cannot WFH (even as incomes go up). #econsky

New Year’s resolution was to read more non fiction. I am interested in 1) gripping, page turner, reads like fiction (on basically any topic) & 2) historyXtechnology and historyXeconomics. Any recs?? Bonus points for something at the intersection of 1) and 2)!

@noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev is the poem you’re looking for Louise Gluck’s White Lilies?

Wow people really do not like this question

Is there any standardized way of measuring the quality of / comparing higher education systems? I offhandedly referred to the U.S. as having the best higher ed system in the world, and have been receiving a lot of push back. If you have any evidence for or against my claim, I’d love to see it!

Who else wants to bring back chamber pots in 2025?

The way to kill "reshape" Really though, economists could benefit from understanding relational databases. Both for efficiency and, perhaps more importantly, to reduce the scope for errors due to duplicating the same information (that may subsequently change)

I agree this sucks but the average US wedding costs $30,000 which you could instead spend on saving 10 lives via malaria treatments (according to givewell). Unless we should also Eat the Average American I don’t know how to think about where to draw the line

My economist husband spent the last couple days, jubilantly stating “Saturday the holidays begin! Vacation starts! No more work!” This morning he woke up excited: “no work today!!” He is now making slides for an intro trade class that doesn’t exist “for fun! This isn’t work!!”

Which subfield of economics, other than the economics of AI, will AI be the biggest complement to?

I used to worry about grammar and having professional sounding writing in my referee reports, but these days I've started writing referee reports in almost casual language in order to signal that I actually wrote it myself.

Nothing I love more than a lukewarm AI take suggesting LLMs make people more productive but can't fully replace their effort

Return-to-office (RTO) mandates lead to abnormally high employee turnover, especially for female/more senior/more skilled employees. It also takes significantly longer to fill these job vacancies after RTO mandates. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....