Congratulations to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for the recognition by the Nobel committee of their foundational studies of economic growth based on sustained innovation!
13.10.2025 10:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@ddiamantaras.bsky.social
Economics Professor at Temple University, Philadelphia. Amateur photographer and singer (classical style, bass). Also on Mastodon at @Dimitrios_Diamantaras@sciences.social
Congratulations to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for the recognition by the Nobel committee of their foundational studies of economic growth based on sustained innovation!
13.10.2025 10:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Co-director @dacemoglumit.bsky.social participated in yesterday's United Nations dialogue session on AI, highlighted in @nytimes.com. Daron stressed that the current path of AI, which emphasizes automation, could lead to greater inequality.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
Hey, so I'm doing this thing next week, and it's a pilot for what I'm hoping will be a regular thing, and I'm really excited about it, and I do hope you'll join us.
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My book, a labor of love, with 15 years of my own research and the stories of countless women, is out today!! I document why women's time has gotten so squeezed, and then provide actionable, evidence-based strategies on what we can do about it! So many people on here did the research in the book! π
23.09.2025 18:48 β π 59 π 16 π¬ 1 π 4Ah, the memories! I did my MA in Economics there, 1981-83.
11.09.2025 15:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"How much of the inequality we observe today can be predicted by inherited circumstances?β
This week on the podcast, Steven Durlauf is joined by Francisco Ferreira to explore how inherited inequality unfolds across countries and regions.
π§ Hear the full conversation bit.ly/45XLHnV
π The new school year is starting in many places. If youβre a teacher, student, or parent, here are a few ways Our World in Data might be useful to you right now π§΅
Our work is used in classrooms around the world β from top universities to local schools.
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Today's ChatGPT use case: give it Stata code and have it draft a methodology section based on it. A straightforward yet somewhat time-consuming task to do manually.
Bonus: if the writeup doesn't match what you THINK you did, it may be due to an error in your code that you didn't catch.
#EconSky
Instagram on iPad opens on Reels, not on the regular photographic feed
And of course, there is no way to change this behaviour
This is both not surprising in the slightest, and yet another example of a giant social media corporation forcing the hands of its users
Miserable post
Sorry for the miserable post.
03.09.2025 16:03 β π 604 π 118 π¬ 17 π 61/Very pleased to release this paper which provides a very flexible methodology for estimation of Markov transition matrices linking parents to children, joint with my brilliant coauthors Yoosoon Chang, Bo Hu, and Joon Park.
02.09.2025 22:38 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0I did this last year in my principles of microeconomics class. I explained my reasons. I expected bad course evaluations, but I got the best evaluations ever for that class, with many students explicitly stating that the policy was good.
31.08.2025 12:33 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Lol
24.08.2025 17:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I am teaching my principles of micro mostly on the whiteboard and my game theory and math econ about 50% on the whiteboard board. I also enforce hand-written note taking.
24.08.2025 15:45 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Paul Krugman's substack series on Inequality is now all up on the Stone Center website:
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/tag/people-p...
(originally on his substack: paulkrugman.substack.com)
To Prime Minister Netanyahu, an open letter from 23 economists at universities in the US and Europe. We urge you to read it.
drive.google.com/file/d/1D_Sv...
Letter from 23 leading economists, including 10 Nobel Prize winners:
15.08.2025 20:07 β π 60 π 27 π¬ 2 π 21. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint.
This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.
My brother majored in philosophy, has a grad degree in more philosophy, and makes an ungodly amount of money. He can critically evaluate problems, speak multiple languages, and write like a god. All of these things help his organization solve big problems and communicate the solutions to others.
10.08.2025 17:38 β π 21 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1ironically the education for its own sake, Enlightenment-coded, Great Books-ass liberal arts degree is one of the better employment bets you can make. learn how to read, write, think critically, develop curiosity so you can pick up new skills quickly, etc etc
10.08.2025 17:22 β π 1913 π 371 π¬ 71 π 51π Students taught with CORE do better in every subject.
New research from @latrobeuni.bsky.social shows CORE texts boost performance across the board. Watch Associate Professor Buly Cardak explain the findings, now published in Southern Economic Journal.
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New capabilities for NotebookLM just before I really have to prep for my fall teaching blog.google/technology/g...
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25.07.2025 01:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.
Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.
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β¦ which was intentionally incomplete to be used in class with me solving the problem (a KKT optimization example) live for the students. Claude finished the solution so well I was left stunned.
08.07.2025 17:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I have given a PDF of a handwritten note I made on my Remarkable tablet to Claude 4 Sonnet and asked it for a LaTeX version. There were many equations in the note. Claude did a perfect job. Then I asked it to finish the solution of the problem in the note β¦ 1/2
08.07.2025 17:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Subjects who play the risky but efficient action in a simple coordination game are more likely to cooperate in repeated games: susceptibility to strategic uncertainty matters for cooperation, from Pedro Dal BΓ³ and Guillaume FrΓ©chette https://www.nber.org/papers/w33980
06.07.2025 18:00 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0This summer she begins her doctoral studies...
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