Reposted by Alex ClydeJason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps. 1131046370
Alex Clyde @alexclyde.bsky.social · 08/08/2025My paper `Proxy Variables and Feedback Effects in Decision Making' is now forthcoming at Games and Economic Behavior. The paper builds a theoretical framework to study the naive use of potentially mismeasured data by economic decision makers. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comProxy variables and feedback effects in decision makingWhen using data, an analyst often only has access to proxies of the true variables. I propose a framework that models decision makers who naively assu… 010
Alex Clyde @alexclyde.bsky.social · 22/11/2024I’m on the job market this year! My #EconJMP explores how to design incentives for people with limited understanding of the causal effects of their actions. I consider the implications of a form of bounded rationality I call 'narrow inference' in a principal-agent screening model. (1/15) 172