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Building AI that Expands Human Opportunity Research lab founded and led by UT-Austin economist Peter Bergman. peterbergman.bsky.social LearningCollider.org

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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The many, multiplying challenges imposed by the WH on K-12 education shouldn't define the quality of edtech. We can build better, rigorously tested digital tools that improve learning outcomes. With Bibi Groot of Eedi, @peterbergman.bsky.social explains how: the-learning-agency.com/the-cutting-...
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Building Smarter Ed Tech Through Real-World Research - The Learning Agency
Partnerships between academics and ed tech are crucial to navigating the current uncertainty in education policy and industry.
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StartingUpGood @startingupgood.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Advice from @learningcollider.bsky.social, @waltonfamilyfdn.bsky.social, Valhalla Foundation & Renaissance Philanthropy at @sxswedu.com 2025 for #socent & #startups about how to use #AI, measure progress, & take risks to succeed. 📖 Learn More: medium.com/startingupgo... #SXSW25 #SocialImpact
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Breaking Barriers: Smart Funding Fuels Innovation in Education
How Startups Use AI, Measure Progress, & Take Risks to Succeed
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Jill Barshay @jillbarshay.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I was just informed that the Department of Education has taken down all its Civil Rights data. If you need it, alternative sites are now hosting it for the public. See links in this thread. ocrdata.ed.gov/notfound
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Civil Rights Data | U.S. Department of Education
Understand trends in student opportunity, security, and diversity.
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Greg Toppo @gtoppo.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Education Dept. Cancels Over $600M in Grants for Teacher Pipeline Programs - new from @the74.bsky.social's @lrj417.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/educ...
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Education Dept. Cancels Over $600M in Grants for Teacher Pipeline Programs
Many of the efforts focused on increasing teacher diversity, which now, officials say 'is inconsistent' with the administration’s priorities.
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Becker Friedman Institute for Economics @beckerfriedman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Sending conversation prompts to low-income parents encourages them to discuss vocabulary with their preschoolers, boosting children's vocabulary and strengthening parents' belief in their role. New brief from @arielkalil.bsky.social @harrissocial.bsky.social & co-authors. ow.ly/9tQj50V3OS0
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Talking about Words Boosts Preschool-Age Children’s Vocabulary: Evidence from a Parent Intervention | Becker Friedman Institute
Language development is a fundamental aspect of formation, and researchers continue to explore the most effective ways to support young children in acquiring new vocabulary. Evidence indicates that pa...
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J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
We are excited to join Bluesky! J-PAL North America is a regional office of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, based at MIT, seeking to reduce poverty by ensuring policy is informed by scientific evidence. www.povertyactionlab.org/na
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J-PAL North America | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
J-PAL North America, based at MIT, leads J-PAL’s work in the North America region. J-PAL North America conducts randomized evaluations, builds partnerships for evidence-informed policymaking, and help...
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Hilary Wething @hilwething.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
DATA RELEASE WHEN DATA FEELS SCARCE! Check out data.epi.org -a data repository with 78,000+ series on topics like employment, wages, poverty, and inequality. You can get many measures by gender, race and state! I've been working with our @epi.org team to build this and am so proud of the result
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Topics - EPI Library
The EPI Data Library offers comprehensive, up-to-date labor data from Economic Policy Institute analysis, covering wages, inequality, and economic trends across demographics.
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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
NIJ and other federal agencies have paused research funding, but @arnoldventures.bsky.social has not! Check out our open RFPs. We're looking for causal studies across a range of issues, including crime/criminal justice. www.arnoldventures.org/grantees
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
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Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs
'The American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and gave him a mandate to increase the impact of every federal taxpayer dollar. In Fiscal Year 2024. of the nearly $10 trillion that the Federal Government spent, more than $3 trillion was Federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans. Career and political appointees in the Executive Branch have a duty to align Federal spending and action with the will of the American people as expressed through Presidential priorities. Financial assistance should be dedicated to advancing Administration priorities, focusing taxpayer dollars to advance a stronger and safer America, eliminating the financial burden of inflation for citizens, unleashing American energy and manufacturing, ending wokeness" and the weaponization of government, promoting efficiency in government, and Making America Healthy Again. The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve.
This memorandum requires Federal agencies to identify and review all Federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the President's policies and requirements. For example, during the initial days of his Administration, President Donald J Trump issued a series of executive orders to protect the American people and safeguard valuable taxpayer resources, including Protecting the American People Against Invasion (Jan. 20, 2025).
Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid (Jan 20, 2025), Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements (Jan. 20, 2025). Unleashing American Energy (Jan. 20.
2025). Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (Jan. 20.ent these orders, each agency must complete a comprehensive analysis of all jal assistance programs to identify programs, projects, and activities that any of the President's executive orders. In the interian, to the extent applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency nay be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial
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pause will provide the Administration time to review agency programs of the funding for those programs consistent with the law and the he temporary pause will become effective on January 28, 2025, at 5:00
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To the extent required by law, Federal agencies may continue nistrative actions. such as closeout of Federal awards (2 CFR 200.344), or expressly required by law
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 22/01/2025
Call for papers: Econ of Ed @nberpubs.bsky.social Spring Meeting at Stanford. Submissions are welcome from researchers with and without NBER affiliations, from early career scholars, and from researchers from under-represented groups. #EconConf www.nber.org/confsubmit/b...
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Submission: Economics of Education Program Meeting, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Just had our data access rescinded for a projected using federal microdata to study and reduce disparate impact in housing markets.
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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Updated paper: A lot of work on the effects of tracking in education, which is a widespread practice globally. We show 1) algorithms can track students far more effectively than test scores 2) test scores discriminate 3) algorithmic placement has infinite MVPF static1.squarespace.com/static/60d0c...
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Anjali Adukia @aadukia.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Submit your papers to NBER @nberpubs.bsky.social Children's Spring meeting by January 31st! The meetings will be held April 3-4 in Cambridge, MA! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...
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Submission: Children and Families Program Meeting, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Always tough questions with this guy 😁 Top 20 definitely incudes 'Unwarranted Disparity in High-Stakes Decisions: Race Measurement and Policy Responses' ✒️ E. Jason Baron, Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Natalia Emanuel, Peter Hull, & Joseph Ryan
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
What's happening under the hood at our lab? Take a look at today's email blast: www.learningcollider.org/campaigns/vi... #econ #sci #research #ds
Building Fair and Equitable AI Systems; Understanding and Reducing Discrimination in AI and Human Decision-Making; Using AI to Address Learner Variability; Creating Pathways to Economic Mobility
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🧵 Our takeaways from Ludwig, @sendhil.bsky.social and Rambachan on the reliability and validity of LLMs in research: 1️⃣ LLMs should only be used if the training data does not overlap with the research data, preventing the model from "cheating" #econ #sci #data #ai
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Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
new WP y'all www.nber.org/papers/w33236
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
🔖 Looking forward to digging into the latest working paper from Jens Ludwig, @sendhil.bsky.social and Ashesh Rambachan on the use of LLMs in economics research. #econsky #scisky #phdsky arxiv.org/abs/2412.070...
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Large Language Models: An Applied Econometric Framework
Large language models (LLMs) are being used in economics research to form predictions, label text, simulate human responses, generate hypotheses, and even produce data for times and places where such ...
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Pedro Sant’Anna @pedrosantanna.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A very interesting new working paper by the greats Ashesh Rambachan, Rahul Singh, and @vivianodavide.bsky.social: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10959 It seems that this is another area where the empirical common practice was "too fast,'' and econometrics is catching up! Cool and empirically relevant stuff!
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Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Interesting-looking JMP on using quasi-experiments to measure discrimination in high-stakes settings nikh-rao.github.io/site_files/d...
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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Great discussion, with folks far smarter than I am, giving seminar audiences all over the world further free license to question the speaker about their standard errors. (But really, a helpful discussion.)
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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Just published: 🔥 Algorithmic bias and racial inequality: A critical review🔥 maxkasy.github.io/home/files/papers… Thoughts and comments welcome! Part of the OXREP special issue on Race, Caste, and Economic Policy: academic.oup.com/oxrep/issue/40/3
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A little teaser on our lab's work ... Stay tuned 📻
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Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I have a new WP out today with Jason Baron, Joe Doyle, and Natalia Emanuel, on discrimination in foster care placement www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/l6nft... This time we study the whole united states, and look at heterogeneity over time and space A few key takeaways 👇
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
👀 📖 "...we find that a large share of evictions are not prevented by three prominent tenant-protection policies: short-term rental assistance, procedural delays in eviction court, and increases in filing fees..." New WP www.nber.org/papers/w33155 @nberpubs.bsky.social #econ #policy #data
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Nonpayment and Eviction in the Rental Housing Market
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Check out the latest Econimate video summarizing Benjamin Arold's paper in @qjeharvard.bsky.social: “Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education.” #econ #edu #policy #science www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeZw...
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Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom
YouTube video by econimate
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Does anyone have publicly available data from a populous state (eg CA, TX, NY, FL) with detailed variables about each high school? I’m aware of National data from CCD and PSS and in fact, I want to link the state data to them, so an NCES school identifier is required. Thanks!
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
A+ round-up of #edu #policy and #econ folks 📚 Great to see affiliates @aadukia.bsky.social, @alexeble.bsky.social, @cohodes.bsky.social and founder @peterbergman.bsky.social. Bonus follow: @mattbarnum.bsky.social, formerly of Chalkbeat now at WSJ, still awesome at covering education research.
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
"It takes courage to rigorously evaluate one’s life’s work—and even more to accept disappointing findings—but it is this courage that is necessary to do the hard work of finding solutions to the challenging problems facing society’s most vulnerable..." #policy #econ www.westword.com/news/opinion...
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Learning the Right Lessons From the Denver Basic Income Project
"At the ten-month follow-up, there were no statistically significant differences between the three groups in their housing status."
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
"Not only were families searching and applying to units in neighborhoods with higher quality school but they were subsequently leasing up in those neighborhoods as well. We saw changes all the way from search behaviors to where they lease up." @peterbergman.bsky.social youtu.be/FL8TCoX6bR8?...
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Providing School Quality Information to Improve Housing Mobility for Low-Income Families
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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Education economists: I teach a PhD economics of education seminar next semester. What should the students learn? Seeking syllabi, snippets of syllabi (e.g., the education unit of your labor/dev class), & papers. Self recommendations welcome! #EconSky 📉📈
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Jonathan Colmer @jmcolmer.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Hi #EconSky, I'm very excited to present our new working paper (nber.org/papers/w33050) at Brown today! A mid-sized 🧵 TL;DR: "Racial differences in income unable to explain a meaningful share of gaps in ambient air pollution exposure."
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Income, Wealth, and Environmental Inequality in the United States
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Siobhan O'Keefe @smokeefe.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
As early voting starts in many states and campaign workers everywhere are gearing up for #GOTV, I want to highlight research from my awesome colleague Angela Cools that shows parents (especially moms) of young children are less likely to vote. 📈📉 #econsky
An event study figure that shows the probability of voting decreasing markedly for female parents when their child is 0 and then fading out by the time the child is 5. A link to the paper in provided in a reply.
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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Judgment and Decision Making (JDM) starter pack Happy to add you go.bsky.app/8nDKmwG
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
📃 To randomize or not to randomize... That isn't the question...but we answered it anyway 🤷 For a round-up of randomization resources to help researchers inform partners and policymakers, check out our post 📃 #science #econ #policy www.learningcollider.org/blog/randomi...
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Randomization Round-Up: Some Not-So-Random Resources for Social Science Research — Learning Collider
Randomization is a powerful tool for cutting through the noise and complexity of humans; it’s key to rigorous research and experimentation. Properly randomizing treatment and control groups for an int...
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
A common assumption is that families with Section 8 vouchers prefer to live in low-opportunity neighborhoods. What if that's not the case? Turns out, barriers to higher-opportunity neighborhoods play a major role in where low-income Americans end up living. #econ #policy #science 1/2
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Tina's Driving Lesson @tinavstammy.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
There may be more of them here than you realize. Has anybody given you this yet? Piece o'cake. I found a bunch I had missed manually searching.
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Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store
Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Shout out to @peterbergman.bsky.social, our founder and director, who is speaking at today's Policy Leadership in the Age of AI Symposium hosted by UT-Austin's The LBJ School of Public Affairs. 🔗 Peter's profile: peter-bergman.com #econ #policy #ai
Panel description: AI in Teaching & Learning - How is AI changing the education landscape? What are Texas K-12 and higher education institutions doing to develop responsible and forward-thinking AI use on campuses? What are some use cases for classroom use? How can organizational frameworks help diffuse AI-based innovations and reduce duplication of efforts? This panel will delve into ways to harness responsible AI use to drive teaching and learning outcomes.
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
"Unlike CSR and ESG initiatives, which critics view as peripheral to the core business strategy and profit-draining, a social profit orientation embeds social impact directly into the organization’s mission, integrating social good with economic goals." #impact www.philanthropy.com/article/soci...
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‘Social Profit Orientation’ Can Help Companies and Nonprofits Alike Do More Good in the World
Researchers argue that companies and nonprofits can prosper when they make sustainable, social, and environmental impact central to their missions.
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Very cool datasets + packages from Melissa Dell, to use alongside her JEL paper on ‘Deep Learnjng for Economists’ #EconSky 📉📈 HT Kevin Bryan, via the other place econdl.github.io
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NBER @nber.org · 23/09/2024
First nationally representative survey of generative AI usage in the US at work and at home, from Alexander Bick, Adam Blandin, and David J. Deming www.nber.org/papers/w32966
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Starter Pack for #socialscience #research labs and centers is growing. Let us know who is missing! Hope to see more labs make their way to bluer skies 🌞 #scicomms #scisky go.bsky.app/Tv3Dx9H
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
We have the early beginnings of a research lab Start Pack, primarily social sciences and computational social sciences. Comment for reach and share your recommendations on who to add! #econ #css #data #scisky #research go.bsky.app/Tv3Dx9H
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NBER @nber.org · 18/09/2024
In a data-driven world, record linkage and data privacy are prominent research areas. This study highlights the challenges of connecting them from a statistical perspective, from Shurong Lin and Eric Kolaczyk www.nber.org/papers/w32940
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Rodrigo Franco @rodrigofranco.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Hi #EconSky I’m looking for papers on job creation in dev Econ. Anything related to institutions, barriers, public investment, etc. Share your knowledge with me! Thank you!
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 17/09/2024
📈📉 #policysky 😍
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Favorite findings from M. Keith Chen, Katherine Feinerman, and Kareem Haggag 💡 Working paper at www.kareemhaggag.com/f/Instant_Pa... #econsky #scisky #policysky
Favorite Findings graphic reads: Using granular data from a nationwide randomized controlled trial at Uber, we estimate the effects of switching from a fixed weekly pay schedule to Instant Pay, a system that allows on-demand, within-day withdrawals. We find that flexible pay substantially increased both drivers’ work time and earnings (ITT: 2%; TOT: 18-37%). Authors: M. Keith Chen, Katherine Feinerman, Kareem Haggag
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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
I love this thinking in Dave Deming’s article. How do we change our profession to incentivize+support broader impact? All research needn’t be oriented this way but economics overly relegates impact. Fortunately an increasing # of people are thinking about this. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Break Up Big Econ
The economics profession has become insular and status-obsessed, and not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world.
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