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We could have had a very different rollout of LLMs than we actually did. It could have focused on building applications that made life easier for everyday use. Limited but useful. Instead, the buildout was focused on a radical and flawed proposition: that it could replace much of human labor.

i think there are a lot of people who would find it very hard to believe that the field of economics could produce this paper. and yet! Acemoglu is like the mainstreamest and most successful economist working today. some priors could use an update. www.nber.org/papers/w35336

The combination of earnings inequality and economic stagnation has led to the growing importance of wealth, and a decline in social mobility. Economic inequalities have also resulted directly in dangerous differences between regions and in political power across groups.

This is exactly what our research shows: when it becomes harder to tell apart expert-looking content from the real thing, the value of expertise goes up. And so does demand for it… giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... AI hallucinations haunt users more than job losses

Bottom line: conservation and renewable energy policies are complementary. The Amazon is not only a carbon sink — it is infrastructure. 📄 Paper: en.redepps.org/publications... 📘 Policy brief: en.redepps.org/publications... Joint work with Rafael Araújo, Marcelo Sant'Anna, and Vinícius Hector.

This new QJE paper concludes that the macroeconomic costs of climate change are far greater than earlier estimates suggested. It finds that a 1°C rise in global temperatures reduces world GDP by over 20%.

I am looking for a PhD student in energy economics starting in the fall, focusing on household-level energy use and energy poverty. More info: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Após mais de 2.558 dias do rompimento da barragem da Vale em Brumadinho, que matou 272 pessoas, o Corpo de Bombeiros de Minas Gerais encerrou as buscas pelas vítimas. Sete anos depois, a maior parte da lama tóxica permanece no ambiente e ninguém foi julgado pelo desastre.

Hi lovely #econsky people! 📢 Call for Papers: YEM2026 – Young Economists’ Meeting, Brno (yem.econ.muni.cz). Submit full papers or extended abstracts by Feb 28 for the conference on May 27–29, Brno, Czech Republic. We can’t wait to see you there! #YEM2026

new vox dev piece on our recent RCT to counter misinformation in classrooms in india:

[OC] Brazil National Congress - Oscar Niemeyer r/brutalism

Der Belém-Spruch von Friedrich Merz war herablassend und billig, und sagt mehr über ihn aus als Belém. Damit schädigt Merz nicht nur dem Ansehen Deutschlands, sondern auch den Bemühungen bei der Weltklimakonferenz. 🇧🇷 #Merz #Belém www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

The impact of AI on workers depends critically on whether the AI-seller has market power. A monopoly seller of AI services causes significant harm to an economy, from Susan Athey and Fiona Scott Morton www.nber.org/papers/w34444

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The aggressive immigration raids we now see across the nation began 10 months ago in California's Central Valley. Their impact on children, families, and communities is an important & active area of research I'm pleased my study of the initial raid's early impact on students is now out in @pnas.org

Hmm, I also don't know what it means, but I know how to make your kids stop using it at home, fellow parents. Adopt it and let it slip casually into conversations with your kids.😉 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Real change in public expenditures on higher education, 2008 to 2023, selected countries that actually publish the damn data. UK is worst here, but note this does not include RAB (projected future loan forgiveness, basically). If RAB is included...UK would still be last.

My opinion about the historic verdict coming out of Brazil, with @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, is in the @nytimes.com today. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

Brazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Yesterday, I had the privilege of delivering a lecture to the State Minister of Planning of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We discussed key lessons from the UK’s system of policy evaluations and how these insights can help strengthen evaluation practices in Brazil.

Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be May 1-2, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Submission portal is now open! Deadline for submissions is October 31--don't forget to submit! It will be a great conference! (organized by me and @jrothst.bsky.social) mailchi.mp/sole-jole/so...

Trump does shit every day that should get him impeached. But illegally punishing an entire country — and any Americans who use products or do businesses with anyone in Brazil — because it’s prosecuting its former president for attempting a violent coup is among the worst things he has done.

Using time series graphs to make causal claims be like

We are hiring for a paid six-month internship on The Economist’s Britain desk. Please share! economist.com/britain/2025...

I left Ireland and moved to New York in 1997. Decades on, what the US has become has broken my immigrant heart. It also baffled me, until I began to piece together Gen X memories of apartheid South Africa.

I'd love to fund studies of interventions that reduce real-time pollution exposure, in the US, on outcomes related to violence and criminal behavior. (There is strong evidence that such exposure increases violence in real time; the next question is how much interventions can mitigate this effect.)

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

🆕 Understanding Brazil’s falling income inequality 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, Alysson Portella (Insper) discusses why the gap between the richest and poorest has been narrowing in Brazil since the 1990s: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

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„Deutschland braucht kein unsinniges Lamentieren über fehlende Leistungsbereitschaft von jungen Menschen“, sagt DIW-Präsident @mfratzscher.bsky.social. Ihm zufolge habe der Arbeitsmarkt noch jede Menge ungenutztes Potenzial. Zur Kolumne: www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.... / via @zeit.de

📣 SURE START FINAL REPORT OUT!! 🌟So proud to have been part of this journey! 🔟 years of hard work + rigorous analysis, & the evidence speaks clearly: #SureStart worked. 💷 SS returned £2 for every £1 spent. A milestone for #EarlyYears policy. Ready for the launch! 🚀

Star pianist Igor Levit informs the German film awards audience that Margot #Friedländer has passed away. “She was a miracle.” His impromptu speech is worth watching if you understand German. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XnVt...

When your statistical model "fits the data well" ...

Quite the quote.

Cool graph. If you had asked me, I would not have correctly predicted that the slope was steepest for Latin America

Great set of papers on inequality in LAC covering a wide range of issues.

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Fantastic short clip in response to nativist remarks by CDU leader Merz, stating the well-documented but oft-ignored fact that women are much more likely to get assaulted by their partner at home than by (immigrant) strangers outside of the home.

Ein Bericht über Korruption zeigt ein düsteres Bild: Die Lobbyisten agieren unverschämter. Sie kaufen sich Einfluss. Wir müssen Spenden von Unternehmen verbieten. Denn Demokratie heißt: die Mehrheit entscheidet, nicht das große Geld. #CPI2024

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Great resource on the research frontier in a very important topic.

Paper with @gabriconti.bsky.social & Renata Narita accepted at JoLE! drive.google.com/file/d/1QCn5...

After extensively studying the strategies implemented by Bolsonaro's government to undermine public administration, I can confidently assert that these tactics follow a tested playbook. This approach has been employed by various governments globally and is now being adopted by the Trump admin. +

I had the pleasure of attending the 10th anniversary of Project360, a secondary responder programme to support victims of domestic abuse (DA), and seeing old and new team members. Jesse Matheson, Réka Plugor and I ran the RCT to evaluate its impact. A short thread on the story behind the research.

This is a thread about remaking the tech sector.

Please help me spread the word about this amazing two-year pre-doc opportunity. Research with faculty is optional. Get paid to take classes that prepare you for PhD. Deadline 11/15: stern.nyu.edu/programs-adm...