via Behavioral Scientist: How Zero-Sum Beliefs Get in the Way of Fairness https://behavioralscientist.org/how-zero-sum-beliefs-get-in-the-way-of-fairness/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Behavioral Scientist @behavioral-scientist-Behscientist orig 1/2

#EconSky Things versus People: Gender Differences in Vocational Interests and in Occupational Preferences https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268122003201#EconSky HT @SteveStuWill "On average, men are more interested in working with things, whereas women are more interested in 1/3

#EconSky Will AI Bury Future Generations in Cognitive Debt? https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-destroying-traditional-career-automating-learning-by-doing-by-bertrand-badre-and-florian-ingen-housz-2025-10#EconSky "As companies seek to automate repetitive tasks in the name of 1/4

#EconSky AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bubble-will-burst/#EconSky "It’s worth reiterating that two of the closest analogs #AI seems to have in tech #bubble history are aviation and broadcast radio. Both were wrapped in high degrees of #uncertainty and both were 1/4

#EconSky How do monetary incentives affect the measurement of social preferences? https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zur:econwp:482&r=&r=exp#EconSky "… the use of monetary #incentives, as well as the size of the stakes, have little impact on choices at the descriptive levels, as well as for the 1/5

#EconSky Bargaining power and #wages: Collective wage agreements and union membership in Germany https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:ifsowp:329630&r=&r=lab#EconSky#wages:"Even in an era of declining membership of #unions, their roles remain vital in addressing contemporary labor market inequalities. … 1/4

#EconSky There's Nothing in the Air https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22294#EconSky "the urban wage growth premium: substantially faster wage growth in larger cities … part of this premium is driven by the firms that choose to sort themselves into bigger cities … eliminating the job ladder mechanism, 1/3

#EconSky AI-assisted Programming May Decrease the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing Maintenance Burden https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10165#EconSky "… find that productivity indeed increases. … the increase in productivity is driven by less-experienced (peripheral) developers. … 1/3

#EconSky The Labor Market Consequences of Acquisitions https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_12162&r=&r=ind#EconSky "… the consequences of corporate acquisitions for workers and find that they are far from neutral: earnings decline through both job displacement and wage cuts among stayers from 1/4

#Signaling https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/signal-4 Via @ZachWeinersmith #math orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115414470576329899

#EconSky Should Universities Educate Students? https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/10/should-universities-educate-students.html#EconSky "In conclusion, the university’s time and resources should be spent on recruitment, retention, technological innovation, revenue generation, and research 1/4

#EconSky How Scrutiny and Iteration Made Behavioral Economics Better https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/how-scrutiny-iteration-made-behavioral-economics-better#EconSky "However, direct #replicability should not be confused with #generalizability or universality. While the basic patterns of 1/4

#EconSky #Signaling in the Age of AI: Evidence from Cover Letters https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2509.25054&r=&r=lma#EconSky#Signaling"While #AI tools allow freelancers to produce more polished and tailored applications with less effort, our findings suggest that they fundamentally reshape how 1/4

#EconSky The Role of Firms and Occupations in Wage Inequality https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:vfsc25:325461&r=&r=eur#EconSky "… find that between-occupation job variance is roughly as important as within-occupation between-firm variation, and that between-occupation sorting is significantly more 1/5

#EconSky Are we teaching students AI competence or dependence? https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/10/17/are-we-teaching-students-ai-competence-or-dependence/#EconSky "Universities face a clear decision: do we want graduates who can merely use #AI, or citizens who can think with it? 1/4

#EconSky Are decredentialed jobs a route to upward mobility? https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:4kgj9_v1&r=&r=bec#EconSky "… for some jobs, a degree requirement may be a rough and ready #screening tool, filtering out many qualified candidates, or even a result of occupational closure. When 1/5

via Koenfucius: Which do workers value more—pay or perks? New research looks into how people trade-off money versus other job benefits: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/money-versus-perks-which-do-workers-value-more orig https://mastodon.social/@Koenfucius/115334382178843623

#EconSky Labour market power, firm productivity, and the immigrant-native pay gap https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:clefwp:327118&r=&r=lma#EconSky "Immigrants earn 16% less than native-born workers in Canada, and this pay gap is similar in many other high-income countries. … immigrants earn 77% of 1/4

#EconSky Mind the Gap: Gender-based Differences in Occupational Embeddings https://aclanthology.org/2025.gebnlp-1.7.pdf#EconSky "Across five state-of-the-art multilingual models and seven reference-set configurations, up to 82% of gendered pairs received divergent Top-5 suggestions. These 1/4

#EconSky Measuring Gender Bias in Job Title Matching for Grammatical Gender Languages https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13803#EconSky "… propose a methodology to measure gender bias in a high-impact #NLP application in the human resources domain: job title matching. Using an existing test set in 1/5

#EconSky Do Employers Comply with Pay Transparency Requirements in Job Postings? https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/10/do-employers-comply-with-pay-transparency-requirements-in-job-postings/#EconSky "… employers ignore #payTransparency requirements; roughly a quarter of job listings 1/2

#EconSky Developing a New European Indicator of Potential Skill Shortages https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp18133&r=&r=eur#EconSky "… estimate that approximately 2% of job vacancies in the European Union are likely to experience skill shortages. … there is substantial variation across 1/3

#EconSky The Great Power Shift: How Intelligent Choice Architectures Rewrite Decision Rights https://archive.ph/7vnir#EconSky The increasing use of AI-powered "intelligent choice architectures" (ICAs) in organizations is transforming how #decisionRights, #power dynamics, and decision-making 1/5

via The Funny Pages: New Comic Found: Dark Side of the Horse - 2025-09-30 https://www.gocomics.com/darksideofthehorse/2025/09/30 #comicstrip #comic #darksideofthehorse orig https://mastodon.social/@thefunnypages/115294569587604425

we should treat caffeine like the brain-altering drug it is https://psyche.co/ideas/why-we-should-treat-caffeine-like-the-brain-altering-drug-it-is "So where do we go from here? A good first step may be to recognise #caffeine for what it is: a psychoactive drug with real effects, real 1/3

#EconSky Explaining the Dynamics of the Gender Gap in Lifetime Earnings https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bfr:banfra:994&r=&r=lab#EconSky "Comparing our results with the US, we find that the gender gap in lifetime earnings has remained significantly smaller in France .… while the US has seen a 1/6

#EconSky Decomposing Trends in the Gender Gap for Highly Educated Workers https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cwl:cwldpp:2457&r=&r=lab#EconSky "… much of the large gap in earnings between the 1931 and 1950 cohorts is due to a cohort specific “residual component” that shifts the gender gap in earnings by 1/5

#EconSky Equal Pay for Similar Work https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17111#EconSky "… the equilibrium effects of Equal Pay for Similar Work (EPSW) policies dominate their direct effects … imposing these policies may lead to unintended outcomes. … EPSW targeted specifically to equalize pay across 1/3

#EconSky Reinterpreting Delay and #Procrastination https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11828#EconSky#Procrastination"Near the #deadline, the agent feels increasing pressure to spend resources as quickly as possible. Because they have some liquidity, the agent exhibits both correlation aversion and monotonicity with 1/3

#EconSky The Subtlety of Optimal Paternalism in a Population with Bounded Rationality https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.13658#EconSky "… optimal utilitarian policy in a heterogeneous population with bounded rationality is highly context specific …determination of an optimal policy requires the planner to 1/5

#EconSky Are Economists Architects or Auditors? https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/what-happened-to-big-thinking-in-economics-by-ricardo-hausmann-2025-07#EconSky Economics seems to have shifted away from creative problem-solving and policy design towards a more narrow, auditing approach 1/3

#EconSky Social Risk, Fairness Types, and Redistribution https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_12128&r=&r=cbe#EconSky "…find individuals exhibit significantly less tolerance for #inequality stemming from social risk — where outcomes depend on another person’s choice to reciprocate or betray — 1/4

#EconSky What Kind of Economists Do We Want? From a One-Track to a Two-Track Mind https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:iuiwop:1530&r=&r=eur#EconSky "In Sweden, and presumably also in most other small European countries, the approach to PhD training in #economics is biased. The system strongly 1/5

#EconSky Output Fluctuations and Firm #Recruitment Effort https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp18068&r=&r=eur#EconSky#Recruitment"… correlations between output growth and job advertisement posting are weak, which might seem at odds with theoretical predictions. Further analysis, however, reveals that 1/5

#EconSky Closing the gap between vocational and general #education? Evidence from University Technical Colleges in England http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/128193/7/jhr.0223-12768R1.full.pdf#EconSky#education?"For students who enter at the non-conventional transition age 14, UTCs have a large detrimental effect on 1/5

#EconSky The Unequal Diffusion of Honesty and Dishonesty in Workplace Networks https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05214954&r=&r=soc#EconSky "… dishonest behavior diffuses while honest behavior does not. The diffusion of dishonest behavior is best explained by information transmission 1/3

#EconSky What the marshmallow test got wrong about child psychology https://psyche.co/ideas/what-the-marshmallow-test-got-wrong-about-child-psychology#EconSky "… once other factors are taken into account, the marshmallow test loses its predictive power. … the next time you hear about a flashy 1/3

Can we measure trust in scientific publications? https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/09/03/can-we-measure-trust-in-scientific-publications/ "Static #trust indicators aim to encourage and reward rigorous and open research practices. These indicators primarily focus on 1/4

Could AI slow science? https://www.normaltech.ai/p/could-ai-slow-science Yes. The rapid adoption of #AI in #science risks exacerbating the production-progress paradox, where publication volume grows exponentially while true scientific progress stagnates or slows down. While AI-driven 1/2

#EconSky The Effect of Teachers’ #CognitiveSkills on Students' Educational Achievements https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:boi:wpaper:2025.04&r=&r=neu#EconSky#CognitiveSkills"… teachers' cognitive abilities—mainly those measured by #math matriculation scores—have clear and positive effects on both students' short-term 1/4

#EconSky People are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/job-market-hell/684133/#EconSky "Online #hiring platforms have made it easier to find an opening but harder to secure one: 1/3

#EconSky Companies are rethinking online job applications, seeking quality over quantity https://archive.ph/Vn52u#selection-559.0-574.0#EconSky#selection-559.0-574.0"Companies fed up with the low-quality, sometimes fraudulent submissions that flood applicant-tracking systems are reaching back in time for hard-to-hack 1/3

#EconSky Measuring the Unmeasurable? Systematic Evidence on Scale Transformations in Subjective #SurveyData https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp18029&r=&r=hap#EconSky#SurveyData"The relationship between the ‘cost’ of deviating from #linearity and the risk of sign reversal is, as one might expect, 1/5

#EconSky Against the Standard https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/36879/8/Cubel_Against_dp764_2025.pdf#EconSky "… in the absence of feedback, women are less likely than men to benchmark their performance against a standard of excellence. This is inefficient because women who are 1/4

Is Fake Sugar Bad for Brains? https://nautil.us/is-fake-sugar-bad-for-brains-1238430/ "The two highest consumption groups had 110% and 173% higher rates of verbal fluency decline, or the ability to rapidly think and speak. Participants in the highest consumption group had a 32% higher rate 1/4

#EconSky Artificial intelligence, distributional #fairness, and pivotality https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05165240&r=&r=ain#EconSky#fairness,"#AI training introduces a significant shift – individual decisions no longer terminate with the present but… influence the future behavior of scalable 1/6

#EconSky Beyond pay: #AI skills reward more job benefits https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2507.20410&r=&r=ain#EconSky#AI"AI-related job postings are significantly more likely to advertise benefits such as remote work options, a positive workplace culture, and parental leave compared to non-AI 1/3

The narrative around transformative productivity gains from #AIassisted coding seems not supported by empirical evidence, and is causing real harm. Despite widespread claims of 10x #productivity gains from #AI tools, there seems to be no evidence of a surge in new software releases or an 1/3

#EconSky The General Theory of #Enshittification https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-general-theory-of-enshittification#EconSky#Enshittification"… to summarize: a history in which firms start out offering great stuff at low prices but eventually offer worse stuff at high prices is the natural life cycle for any 1/3

#EconSky Surface Fairness, Deep Bias: A Comparative Study of Bias in Language Models https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10491#EconSky "… the estimation of socio-economic parameters shows substantially more bias than subject-based benchmarking. Furthermore, such a setup is closer to a real conversation with 1/5