#EconSky Choice Architecture in Occupational Choices http://repec.business.uzh.ch/RePEc/iso/leadinghouse/0255_lhwpaper.pdf#EconSkyThis study uses a Swiss job board to analyze how rank order and design influence high-stakes occupational choices. Higher rankings increased applications, especially for 1/3

#EconSky Human–AI Evaluation and Gender Transparency: Application Decisions in Competitive Hiring https://docs.iza.org/dp18517.pdf#EconSky#AI involvement deters applicants, particularly women, across both pure algorithmic and hybrid human-in-the-loop regimes. This effect is driven by non-competitive 1/3

#EconSky Extending Working Lives: A Systematic Review of Motivations, Determinants, and Institutional Contexts https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/files/307829408/ROA_TR_2026_2_Extending_Working_Lives.pdf#EconSkyThis review of 103 studies examines determinants of labor participation beyond 1/6

The hidden power keeping wages low https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2026/04/21/g-s1-118071/the-hidden-power-keeping-wages-low #Monopsony theory explains how employer dominance suppresses wages by distorting competitive market dynamics. Modern research reveals that market concentration 1/3

#EconSky Why did people stop responding to federal economic surveys? https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-did-people-stop-responding-to-federal-economic-surveys-what-can-be-done/#EconSkyDeclining response rates challenge the precision and bias of economic indicators like unemployment. Surveys 1/2

Our love of predictability may hinder adaptation to an unstable world https://jeroenvanbaar.substack.com/p/how-uncertainty-tolerant-are-you Many people feel a strong need to predict the future and get stressed when they cannot control events. While #anxiety is rising, it was unknown if our 1/3

Intelligence Without Integrity: Why Capable LLMs May Undermine Reliability https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20440 "As LLMs become embedded in empirical workflows and organizational decision infrastructures, analytic reliability depends on more than raw capability. It requires both intelligence 1/4

#EconSky Compassion and Responsibility, the Moral Architecture of the Mind https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/04/compassion-and-responsibility-the-moral-architecture-of-the-mind.html#EconSky#smith #hume #rawls #economics #selfConsciousness ⚗️

A Job I Like or a Job I Can Get: Designing Job #RecommenderSystems Using Field Experiments https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2603.21699&r=&r=exp#RecommenderSystems"… welfare-optimal RSs rank vacancies by an expected-surplus index, and shows why rankings based solely on utility, #hiring probabilities, or 1/5

Easy A’s, Less Pay: The Long-Term Effects of Grade Inflation https://www.nber.org/papers/w34952 "Being assigned a higher average grade inflating teacher reduces a student's future test scores, the likelihood of graduating from high school, college enrollment, and ultimately earnings. In 1/3

#AI and the Quantity and Quality of Creative Products: Have LLMs Boosted Creation of Valuable Books? https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:34777&r=&r=ind#AI"While the average quality of new #books has fallen with the LLM-induced influxand while much of the new work appears to be of little 1/3

What Makes New Work Different from More Work? https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:34986&r=&r=lab “… new work is central to maintaining and augmenting the value of human expertise in the face of automation because, unlike simply more (preexisting) work, new work demands novel expertise 1/4

Do Firms Share their Profits Equally with Women and Men? The Role of Human Capital, Managerial Positions and Unions https://docs.iza.org/dp18388.pdf "… wage-profit elasticity is estimated at 2.8% and is not statistically different for women and men. These non-differing elasticities therefore 1/3

"The interest in #AI writing novels is just another illustration of our efficiency-loving, conveyor-belt society. The threat of AI taking novelists’ jobs is not really about the prospect of it cracking how to write fiction. It is the danger that we stop caring about good #writing at all." 1/3

It must be very hard to publish null results https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:i4rdps:281&r=&r=cmp "Most of the statistical tests … are severely Underpowered … implies that the majority of null hypothesis significance tests we run should yield #nullResults. Yet, the published literature 1/5

robscale 0.5.3 is now on CRAN: A major update since the last public release (0.2.1). New: 11 robust estimators with confidence intervals, plus a variance-weighted ensemble combining seven scale statistics via bootstrap. Newton–Raphson replaces scoring iteration (2–4 steps vs 6–8), a fused 1/4

How ‘Tiny Shortcuts’ Are Poisoning Science https://nautil.us/how-tiny-shortcuts-are-poisoning-science-1279176 "The #credibility crisis of #science is not about scientific progress invalidating previously held scientific beliefs, which is intrinsic to the very nature of scientific 1/4

Robust estimation demands highly efficient computation, especially in streaming anomaly detection where latency budgets are tight. While Rousseeuw & Croux's robust estimators ($Q_n$ and $S_n$), and Rousseeuw & Verboven's M-estimators of location and scale for very small samples, provide 1/4

this would be a nice addition to the dichotomisation chapter of discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-... (unfortunately, Andrew Althouse doesn't seem to be active on Bluesky?)

#EconSky While there is some "boardroom disillusionment" with #AI … Companies have seen "micro-efficiencies" (faster emails, quicker coding), but these haven't scaled to "macro-gains," and the Cost of Implementation (energy, licensing, and talent) is currently outstripping the Value of 1/3

An Empirical Assessment of the Cost of Dichotomization of the Outcome of Clinical Trials https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sim.70402 "Burdening more participants than necessary is wasteful, costly, and unethical. … trials with a binary outcome have larger sample sizes on average, 1/3

#EconSky AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it#EconSky “AI introduced a new rhythm in which workers managed several active threads at once: manually writing code while AI generated an alternative version, running multiple agents in 1/5

#EconSky The Work-from-home Wage Premium https://www.frbsf.org/wp-content/uploads/wp2026-02.pdf#EconSky "… find that workers who work from home earn higher hourly wages than those who do not. … premium is driven by selection on unobservable worker characteristics (which could include ability, 1/4

How I Use Claude Code for Empirical Research https://causalinf.substack.com/p/claude-code-part-12-how-i-use-claude Scott has a lot of good and useful ideas about how to use #claudeCode & Co. I like the referee #2 idea. There is more in his other posts. #AI #llm orig 1/2

#EconSky The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman https://ejpe.org/journal/article/view/1075/753 by Gerd Gigerenzer #BoundedRationality #economics #Psychology #heuristics #Biases #statisticalThinking orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/116013924158823849

#EconSky Everyone Take Copies https://www.econlib.org/econlog/everyone-take-copies/#EconSky "… discs: Non-rivalrous goods are goods that can be used by multiple people without any loss to the other users. If participants exercise the ability to take a disc, then the original disc holder still has a 1/4

#EconSky We’re Planning for the Wrong AI Job Disruption https://archive.ph/2026.02.04-151036/https://www.wsj.com/opinion/were-planning-for-the-wrong-ai-job-disruption-2264d219#EconSky "Many politicians and commentators assume that if #AI can perform some of a job’s tasks, the role will disappear. 1/5

The AI-Powered Web Is Eating Itself https://www.noemamag.com/the-ai-powered-web-is-eating-itself "AI threatens the business model of digital content creation across the board. As publishers lose traffic, there remains little incentive for them to keep content #free and #accessible. Instead, 1/3

#EconSky Wage Expectations and Job Search https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ajk:ajkdps:386&r=&r=eur#EconSky "While average misperceptions are relatively small, substantial shares of job seekers display pronounced optimism or pessimism. … Treated job seekers who were initially strongly optimistic 1/4

#EconSky Generative AI for Analysts https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2512.19705&r=&r=ain#EconSky #AI transforms the information production process: more, faster, balanced, and less useful. "…forecast errors rise by 59% as AI-assisted reports convey a more balanced mix of positive and 1/3

Yes. Ending the excessive legal protections of US Big Tech is obviously the first step in Europe’s retaliation.

#EconSky Delegating in the Age of AI: Preferences for Decision Autonomy https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rco:dpaper:558&r=&r=eur#EconSky "… participants systematically underutilize both #AI and human agents, even when those agents outperform them. Despite a general hesitancy to delegate, we observe a 1/4

#EconSky Old Workers, New Capital https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rsi:irersi:20&r=&r=age#EconSky "… when industries experience workforce #aging, firms with older initial workforces respond by #hiring younger workers and exhibit lower investment, while firms with younger initial workforces hire 1/3

#EconSky AI and the Art of Judgment https://www.econlib.org/econlog/ai-and-the-art-of-judgment#EconSky "… when Sigourney Weaver’s character, Ellen Ripley, dons a P-5000 power loader suit to defeat the alien queen. She uses a tool that amplifies her strength, enabling her to accomplish what would 1/4

#EconSky Measuring Labor Market Tightness: Data Update and New Web Feature https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/01/measuring-labor-market-tightness-data-update-and-new-web-feature/#EconSky "… Traditional tightness measures such as vacancies over unemployment (V/U) also do a relatively 1/4

#EconSky The Trust Equation: It’s Not Just Who You Hire, It’s How You Hire https://behavioralscientist.org/the-trust-equation-its-not-just-who-you-hire-its-how-you-hire/#EconSky "Talent represents the most valuable asset of any firm, and candidates evaluate employers as rigorously as vice versa. 1/3

#EconSky One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative #History of Rationality in Economic Thought https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:38na2_v1&r=&r=big#EconSky#History"… Combining large language model–based semantic analysis with bibliometric and network methods, we identify and cluster discussions of 1/2

#EconSky David Autor on "How Is #AI Shaping the Future of #Work?" https://issues.org/david-autor-economist-ai-future-work/ #LaborEcon #economics orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115906940061303887

#EconSky Buyer Beware: Star Ratings Actually Steer Us Away From the Best Shopping Deals When reviewers consider prices while rating products, there’s a tendency to downgrade the highest-quality yet pricier items 1/2

Another #book that sounds interesting: The Score by C Thi Nguyen https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/06/the-score-by-c-thi-nguyen-review-a-brilliant-warning-about-the-gamification-of-everyday-life#book "…mistaking points for the point is a pervasive error that leads us to build our lives 1/3

#EconSky Two #books for the reading list Decisions, Decisions https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/01/decisions-decisions.html #decisionMaking #BoundedRationality orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115906763414296984

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#EconSky The Modern Peril of the Availability Heuristic https://www.behavioraleconomics.com/the-modern-peril-of-the-availability-heuristic/#EconSky "We now live in an era of informational abundance. The problem is no longer insufficient information, but rather too much of it. .…'UnAvailability 1/3

#EconSky Who Works from Home After the Pandemic? https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iae:iaewps:wp2025n18&r=&r=bec#EconSky "… while worker preferences are relevant, the results suggest that it is the nature of jobs that is the main factor determining who has the option to work from home. … strong 1/4

#EconSky Labor market size and occupational skill match https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:ifauwp:2025_024&r=&r=lma#EconSky The urban wage premium may be related to a city-size match quality gap: "… occupational skill-match quality is higher for individuals living in large local labor markets. 1/2

#EconSky Malthus https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/malthus #smbc #economics …was reminding me of: "Cependant, qui sait? La terre a des limites, mais la bêtise humaine est infinie!" orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115844800389267205

#EconSky How Selective Universities Can Increase Socioeconomic Diversity: Admit by SAT Scores https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/01/02/how-selective-universities-can-increase-socioeconomic-diversity-admit-by-sat-scores/#EconSky "… counterfactual admissions scenario in which colleges eliminate 1/4

Happy New Year! orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115820871142832406

#EconSky Remote professionals are quiet quitting Fridays …could open the door to a 4-day work week https://fortune.com/2025/11/17/remote-hybrid-four-day-work-week-time-use-survey/#EconSky "From 2019 to 2024, the average number of minutes worked on Fridays fell by about 90 minutes in jobs that can 1/3

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