5 years in the making and with still some final tweaks, especially as we take input from league stakeholdersโฆ thank you to @johnhollinger.bsky.social (@nytimes.com and @theathletic.com) for writing about our idea to fix #tanking in the #NBA! Gift link below ๐
Thank you so much @ekoreen.bsky.social for taking the time to hear out the idea in an earlier stage. It is because of your comments this system was made better! You were so gracious.
Hi @maggieastor.bsky.social please take a look at the scientific discourse on the study at the center of your most recent @nytimes.com article. There are some serious issues with the analysis: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
๐ ECONM Advent Calendar โ Day 22! ๐
Congratulations to the research team of @gaborbekes.bsky.social & ๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ on their outstanding European research collaboration in the project โGlobalization and Industrial Policy: Evidence from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (IP-KuK)โ!๐
Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
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#SportsEconomics #LaborEcon #BehavioralEcon #DEI #Colorism #Refereeing #WNBA #MachineLearning #AppliedMicro #WorkingPaper
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Context influences DEI efforts and policy: before prescribing solutions, itโs important to measure baseline bias, as well-intended pressure can temporarily overshoot in already inclusive environments.
Later: the effect diminishes, returning to near-zero bias levels.
The clearest evidence appears with a continuous tone ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ-๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ difference. The findings align with out-group favoritism rather than in-group discrimination.
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Baseline: As expected, ๐ง๐จ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ racial bias exists ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ heightened awareness.
After attention: ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, where players receive ๐๐๐ฐ๐๐ซ fouls from crews of more โopposite-race/dissimilar-toneโ officials.
We examine the #WNBA, which is known for its clear stance against all forms of discrimination.
Using 11 seasons of data, quasi-random referee assignments, and Machine Learning to predict race and skin tone, we explore how increased public attention influences officiating.
Today, racial discrimination is illegal. This does not mean that racial discrimination has fully disappeared, but it is also plausible to assume that many (hopefully most) organizations have no ongoing systematic discrimination.
When Gary Becker published his seminal work on the economics of discrimination (1957), racial discrimination in the USA was still legal.
๐ข New working paper!
โ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐๐ฌ, ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ, ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐งโ (with
Alex Krumer, Rosa Lavelle-Hill, and Tim Pawlowski)
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If AI and workers were strong complements, what would we see?, by @joshgans open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga... Does the latest data tell us AI is a substitute for human work? Nope. Is that comforting? Also nope. My comments on @erikbryn and co. (and @Noahpinion
By all indications, last years economics job market was much tougher than any year since the pandemic. But all signs point towards an even worse job market coming up this season.
Let me explain.
Students often overestimate job prospects in their dream fields. ๐
New research shows that a low-cost intervention providing them with accurate data on opportunities and wages ๐ helps them choose study paths with significantly better earnings prospects! ๐กโก๏ธ
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In the list below, weโve tried to include a range of economics books, mostly accessible to the general reader
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Unsere Initiative Open Library Economics (OLEcon) fรถrdert #DiamondOpenAccess und unterstรผtzt Herausgeber:innen wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften beim Aufbau nachhaltiger Finanzierung: olecon.zbw.eu
Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on abstracts.
(The quoted thread focuses on titles.)
#EconSky #AcademicSky
If Iโm a smart AD at a middling or bad ๐ school the answer is pretty easyโฆcut football. Why isnโt this being discussed? ๐ causes a huge imbalance re Title IX and donโt see the marginal revenue per player helping the case to continue funding
www.nytimes.com/athletic/637...
New open-access course:
Doing Data Analysis with AI
gabors-data-analysis.com/ai-course/
Use #AI to assist creating graphs, data discovery, wrangling, reporting, sentiment analysis.
Based on my BA and MA #DataAnalysis courses. Use to teach or study.
Just added a new section to my graduate lecture notes โ on nonparametric models with unobserved heterogeneity.
It includes one of my favorite identification results in all of econometrics.
github.com/kylebutts/vs...
If you are using vscode and stata, you should try out my extension. It uses interactive window which let's you write in a `.do` file but get a notebook type experience.
W.N.B.A. players are embarrassingly underpaid writes Claudia Goldin, a Nobel Prize-winning economist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...
and on the day Merz of Germany visits, speaking German in the Oval Office
This is a super useful tool for R users
All economics books recommended on @fivebooks.com
fivebooks.com/category/eco...
This new podcast by @deanbaker13.bsky.social and @ceprdc.bsky.social has been great...regardless of economic proficiency!
