Want to live and work in this beautiful mountain valley in Hawaiʻi? #econsky The University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization (UHERO) is hiring for 2 TT positions: -> Public Finance/Tax: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... -> Macro/tourism/forecasting: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... More below 1/5

I need the “Campaign in prose. Govern in econometrics.” t-shirt.

My tests of Deepseek so far indicate consistently weaker performance than o1-pro & also regular o1 on basic applied theory tasks in econ. Often o1-mini also outperforms it. More interestingly, Gemini's latest "thinking" model outperforms Deepseek on my tasks more often than not.

In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus. As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees. 1/

Let me say though, when I asked it to present the derivation of the standard optimal nonlinear income tax formula using the perturbation approach (formally, using Gateaux derivatives, etc) it failed, ignoring the behavioral response effects of tax reforms. Claude 3.5 Sonnet nailed it.

If you do applied theory in econ, and you haven't tried using ChatGPT o1 yet, give it a go. It is much better than earlier models at doing math reliably. Deriving and interpreting FOCs. Doing simple comparative statics. Developing model extensions. It is good enough to be very useful!

Repost from twitter, w/ new pics... Want to live and work in this beautiful mountain valley in Hawaiʻi? UH Mānoa Econ is hiring a TT AP in the Economics of Inequality. aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... Our definition of inequality is very broad. If you do anything inequality-related, please apply. 1/3

That one time I found $45m/year lying around... uhero.hawaii.edu/hawai%CA%BBi... Just over a month ago, Nate Hix (Hawaii Public Health Institute) & I stumbled across an opportunity to expand HI’s SNAP benefits through a simple rule change. (This thread is a repost of one from the bad place) 1/6