Writing and analysis by C. Kirabo Jackson on education, human capital, public policy, and the economy.

Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...

BLÁSKÓGABYGGÐ, ICELAND—Expressing regret that the interruption would delay the highly anticipated video game adaptation, the producers of A24’s upcoming Elden Ring film announced Tuesday that the proj...

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

Using individual-level medical data and death records, this study finds that conservatives in the USA experienced worse health and higher mortality than liberals during the 2010s. No significant gaps ...

“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study found

Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.

A social and transnational history of black abolitionism in BrazilFreedom’s Horizon is a transnational history of black abolitionism in Brazil. In the last...

There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...