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Academia -- where you can firmly be in your mid 40s and still be considered an emerging leader. I like feeling like there is always something to learn and a frontier to discover. I don't like having to wait just because of some "time" (indep of experience or achievement) .

I never have any proof that a student used an LLM and it generally doesn't feel worth it to pursue, but it's pretty soul crushing to be grading and giving feedback to papers that reads like chat gpt

Awesome thread

The whole debate about public / private is stupid. The post-1980 system of public / private partnership in the development of new drugs worked well. The right wants to destroy it because they hate public R&D, the left because they feel like the private sector does nothing. They're both wrong.

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

For everyone taking this way too seriously, the article/headline is an obvious gag It ain't exactly the onion but it's clearly tongue in cheek

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

New in the American Economic Review: migration doesn't hollow out the home economy — it builds it up. More than 75% of the long-run income gains from migration are domestic. The home economy itself grows. Here's what we found: 🧵

Did a series of videos with Markus Brunnermeier on Claude Code (more to come) Video 1: Getting Started with CC open.substack.com/pub/paulgp/p...

No Kings protests in Barrow, Alaska- the most northerly town in the USA. #nokings

There’s an office in London that contains something critical to the security of the global internet — a bunch of swinging pendulums. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/ins...

New post: "The Butlerian Jihad Was Never About the Machines" paulgp.com/2026/03/19/t... or paulgp.substack.com/p/the-butler...

How can social protection programs combat poverty and protect people from shocks? The Handbook of Social Protection, edited by Rema Hanna & Ben Olken, tackles this question. From cash transfers to insurance, it examines the evidence behind real-world programs: https://bit.ly/4uuTiVi

AI is everywhere. But how can we know whether it's changing people's lives for the better? We’re hiring an AI Policy Lead to help evaluate and scale promising AI applications for social good. 📍 Cambridge, MA Learn more and please share: https://bit.ly/4rM1Ogw

Remarkable amount of content in this short message ☘️

So weird: there's more than one scammy memorial site inviting donations or tree-planting in my dad's memory. We are not asking for that, but if people feel moved, donations in lieu of flowers to www.aclu-mn.org, www.aclu.org, or www.eff.org Econ folks, can you help get the word out?

🚨Replication alert🚨 I'm pleased to announce that my replication of Moretti (2021) is now accepted as a comment at AER. I find ten issues in the paper. My comment focuses on two major problems; in the appendix, I document eight (relatively) minor problems. 1/

Team "Elsevier Highlights Subversion" strikes again! Best one yet! @deankarlan.bsky.social, Monica Lambon-Quayefio, Utsav Manjeer, @christopher-udry.bsky.social

As a PhD student, I was told that "seniors" are always really busy, though I speculated, I really wasn't sure how this materialized. I'm not yet SSJ3 Senior, just like baby-senior, but one way it materializes is "Death by 1000 cuts" ⬇️

The Nazis stopped Jewish doctors from practising, so thousands of them left the country (my great grandfather was one of them). So many left that this was a good natural experiment for estimating the causal effect of losing doctors on infant mortality (& thousands died)

~75K violent, ~16K nonviolent deaths Oct23-Jan25. "The combined evidence suggests that, as of Jan 5, 2025, 3–4% of the population of the Gaza Strip had been killed violently and there have been a substantial number of nonviolent deaths caused indirectly by the conflict."

In case folks are looking for a convenient way to containerize their claude code instances, here's a way to use Docker on your mac machine to isolate YOLO-ing claude instances. github.com/paulgp/claud...

unbelievably good from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com @sarahoconnorft.ft.com on the intensification of (knowledge) work under AI www.ft.com/content/9c6a... It reminds me a bit of when the Internet arrived, that sense of a cornucopia of content, an infinite bookstore, a neverending toread list. 1/

open.substack.com/pub/rottenan... this by @economeager.bsky.social is an astonishing essay. With some excellent, loving, put downs about both the British and Americans.

🆕 Do disaster-relief cash transfers trap people in risky areas, or help them adapt? Today on VoxDev, Muhammad Bin Khalid (Harvard) & Martin Mattsson (NUS) discuss how disaster relief enabled climate adaptation in Pakistan: https://ow.ly/XAgU50YiFE7

#CallforPapers — 4th Conference in Health Economics joint with @tse-fr.eu The organisers welcome submissions on healthcare and pharmaceutical regulation, innovation financing, digital health, R&D, and related topics. 🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2026 cepr.org/events/4th-c... #EconSky #EconConf

Minneapolis says no to ICE.

📢 Call for Papers 4th Diversity and Human Capital Workshop, June 9–10, 2026 @exeter.ac.uk @uofebusiness.bsky.social We welcome papers in applied microeconomics, including health, labour, education, development, and public economics. Submit your paper by 16 March: bit.ly/3YRaYMa

if i could make you read ONE (1) single post to improve your understanding of the challenges of social science in general it would be this one from @markfabian.bsky.social about wellbeing science specifically profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/airing-my-...

My last two shots before my world went dark.

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

The Boston Globe Test: This satirical front page imagined a Trump presidency in 2016. Critics (including Trump himself) dismissed it as "alarmist" and "propaganda" at the time. Do these headlines feel normal today? Even...quaint? If so: we have grown more accepting of what was once unthinkable.

Global deaths from cancer have increased, but the world has made progress against it—

I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!

I see this take around from time to time and totally disagree. ICE just murdered a woman standing up to them. No Kings is among the largest protests in history. The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership

Grumpy opinion: Too many young development economists are working on behavioral econ questions that are unimportant for development. The topics are amenable to small experiments that can nail mechanisms and demonstrate smarts via a clever design. The profession over-rewards those attributes.

Call for papers for a World Bank Economic Review special issue on migration and development: we are doing a special issue that builds on a recent conference, but with submissions open also for non-conference papers. Short papers in the AER insights type format also welcome. Deadline November 30.

Do you have a paper on the economics of health in lower-and-middle income countries? Submit it to the 2nd Workshop of the Global Health Economics WG in Rotterdam 4-5 June 2026. Submit at tinyurl.com/ywcwz7ba by 1 Dec. Special treat: keynote by @martinabjorkman.bsky.social

And obviously, the NHS. Yes, it is overstretched and suffering from neglect, but bring a parent in for a day procedure and witness the depth of compassion in that organisation. If nothing else does, that should restore hope.

Last week, @rhodesben.bsky.social and I did a Munk Debates against Kevin Roberts and Kellyanne Conway on whether Trump is leading America into a new golden age. We won. This is from my closing statement. There’s nothing golden about a movement that bathes in gratuitous cruelty.

"For 142 years, the merit-based civil service survived because both parties recognized that functional government requires professional expertise. That consensus is dead. We're watching the transformation of public servants into party servants, of a government of laws into a government of loyalty."

The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.

indefensible

Our 2-part series on urban LMIC primary care is out. These are thick markets w many providers but variable quality. Rural frameworks focused on inadequate access don't apply. Instead, leverage competition, choice to shape mkts, reward high/push out low quality.

Finally got around to reading it. What an awesome paper (and example of how careful descriptive stats can be enlightening)!

People with Yale connections, please check out and consider signing onto this letter asking Yale leaders to join others — notably including Yale's own faculty — in taking a stand. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How many more headlines like this do we have to see? The Israeli military's repeated strikes on areas where Gaza's most vulnerable seek refuge are neither legal nor strategic. It must stop, and an immediate independent investigation into this tragedy is necessary.