Anyone have examples of policies on the use of AI for dissertations you can point me to? #econsky #edusky
Nice thread by @leightjessica.bsky.social on implications of agentic AI for field research in dev econ. TLDR: it's not all doom & gloom! (The doom already happened last yr w/ closure of USAID 🫤)
I agree w/ Jessica that there's lots of scope for AI to *increase* demand for RA time on other tasks.
BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. is preparing possible “final blow” options against Iran if talks fail like seizing key islands (e.g. Kharg, Abu Musa), blockading oil routes, or launching massive airstrikes (and potentially ground ops).
Forces are being deployed, but no decision yet.
Source: Axios
New in Journal of Population Economics w/ @rnajamr + Raja Kattan: Education pays—even more for women in Afghanistan. Each year of schooling raises income by 3–7%, but bans on women’s education/work turn gains into large economic losses. Human capital denial = national loss. shorturl.at/HW0uK
Do you have a paper on financial decision-making?
Want to present research & hike?
Does Bozeman in early August sound good?
The Financial Decision-making Conference is Aug 6-7!
Submission deadline April 20.
The call for papers is here:
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Todd Pugatch
Todd Pugatch
If a single RCT becomes a much richer source of exploration - probably appropriate, given the current demand to learn more with much less - RAs may shift to support these tasks.
Clearly, we still have a lot to see how this unfolds. But my view is cautiously optimistic.
Honestly, after micro the SI prefixes sound like Marx Brothers names
