Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Impacts of home-care subsidies: Evidence from quasi-random assignment" By Yuval Ofek-Shanny, @avnershlain.bsky.social, & @dzeltzer.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics

I'm happy to share that I will be joining Berkeley School of Public Health as an associate professor this summer. Grateful for the opportunity and sad to leave the Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University, my home for years as both student and faculty.

When physicians with access to A.I. are compared with A.I. for virtual urgent care visits The A.I. performed better @annalsofim.bsky.social www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

New @annalsofim.bsky.social paper: In 461 @cedarssinai.bsky.social virtual urgent care cases with common symptoms, AI recommendations were rated optimal more often than physicians' (77% vs 67%), & less often potentially harmful (2.8% vs 4.6%).

⛽ For an academic study, we (@akraft.bsky.social and I) wish to interview US Gas Station owners to learn more about their business practices. Please share or send anyone you know to Andreas or me. Thanks!

Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start! Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall). Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768 Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!

AGI is coming in 2 years max

Looks like MC>MB from just scaling... open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

New DiD paper on US telemed adoption finds higher adoption assoc. w/ slightly more visits but lower spending (incl low value). Mirrors our findings from Israel, suggesting robustness across payment and delivery systems! US: doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.8354 ISR: doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvad035

Raphael is a disabled Army veteran who worked at the VA in Seattle and played a critical role in processing servicemembers' disability benefits. He's received nothing but stellar performance reviews. Elon Musk fired him with ZERO justification. Help share his story.

After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵

Brief break from hawking The Onion to tell everyone I just subscribed to Wired. Please support publications who do brave work right now. www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

PLEASE RT :) Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics Deadline Jan 30 (soon!) Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford

Sad about David Lynch. Beyond his famously great stuff, I remember really enjoying "The Intervew Project", an experimental documentary where his team traveled for weeks all over America and filmed random people they met along the way.

For those who didn't see Janet Currie's AEA Presidential Address live, here's the recording of her talk titled: "Investing in Children to Address the Youth Mental Health Crisis" www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202...

Gave LLM my research project code and a finished paper as a template, and asked it to draft the sample construction section based on the code. Worked really well! (A bit too detailed but I feel deleting irrelevant stuff is much easier).

Great to see our work on telehealth impacts mentioned in Chapter 2 of the ERP "How Remote Work is Reshaping the Economy"! www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...

I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place. psantanna.com/did-resources There, you will find - 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course - Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD - My DiD R/Stata/Python packages - Some DiD checklists - DiD materials from my friends Enjoy!

This progress on generalization seems like a big deal!

Why do I think these instances are interesting? To me, these are not just random instances that LLMs are sometimes wrong (like people), these are *diagnostic* that LLMs do not have a world model and are not “reasoning”, it exposes the basic architecture. Why? 1/n

This may sound odd, but game-based benchmarks are some of the most useful for AI, since we have human scores and they require reasoning, planning & vision The hardest of all is Nethack. No AI is close, and I suspect that an AI that can fairly win/ascend would need to be AGI-ish. Paper: balrogai.com

I will continue in my visitor position at Stanford Econ for (most of) the next academic year. Very grateful for this incredible opportunity!

🌼New WP 📉📈 How does receiving subsidized in-home care affects the health of sick elders? How does it affect the labor supply and income of their adult children? 🧵 with @dzeltzer.bsky.social and Yuval Ofek-Shanny papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....