Tyler Cowen
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The unintended consequences of academic leniency
Education is widely recognized as the primary driver of human capital accumulation. However, policies designed to promote educational attainment often overlook students’ endogenous responses.
And so it begins…
Researchers, I just uploaded a prominent QJE paper on climate change economics to @RefineDotInk and I loaded my critique of the paper. I asked the AI to offer an impartial verdict.
My Barcelona talk
Wednesday, November 4, 18:30 Barcelona time, details here. I am honored to have won the Elinor Ostrom Prize from the Institut Ostrom Catalunya. Maybe see you there!
The pass-through of retail crime
This paper shows retailers increase prices in response to organized retail crime.
William Nordhaus, RIP
Here is notice from Yale, and from Paul Krugman, he was one of the true greats. For the pointer I thank several MR readers.
Chronicle of Higher Education interviews me on AI and education
Scott Carlson did the work (gated, but free with registration), here is one excerpt: Cowen: …Another proposal I’ve made is that schools should let people do one class, only one class, AI-only — no…
Are there too many misdemeanor convictions?
Maybe so: Misdemeanors account for three-quarters of criminal cases filed annually in the United States, yet causal evidence on the impacts of misdemeanor conviction is scarce.
Can Artificial Intelligence Forecast Treatment Effects in Economics?
I use LLMs to forecast treatment effects of research studies pre-registered on the AEA RCT Registry and the Open Science Framework.
AI dominates human peer reviews
We show that AI-generated article reviews are now better, by every measure we could construct, than reviews written by well-compensated human experts and judged to be of unusually high quality by…
My design Conversation with Roman Mars
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Roman Mars has built one of podcasting’s great empires out of noticing things everyone else walks past.