Tyler Cowen
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What makes people happy?
Measuring politically sensitive attitudes in authoritarian settings is difficult because expressions of political support may reflect repression and social pressure as much as genuine belief.
Fast Company covers New Aesthetics
A good piece, it is good to see the artists themselves front and center of the story.
Immigrant Earnings Assimilation, 1981–2021
In this paper, we characterize trends in the earnings assimilation of immigrant workers from 1981 to 2021.
Daron Acemoglu on Liberalism, Automation, and the Educated Elite
Daron Acemoglu returns for his second appearance with a new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy?, which Tyler reads as an attempt to redefine and revitalize liberalism for our times.
How much will cybersecurity costs rise?
Here is one (partial) estimate of the higher cyber costs.
Who enters Congress?
We trace the family origins of Members of Congress (MC) born between 1830 and 1950, linking each MC, their parents, and their brothers to the complete-count censuses.
How well does AI peer review work?
Claude and I planted 100 known errors into 10 open-access psychology papers and then ran them through frontier models and two commercial AI review tools.
Brian Chau at work
I am automating investigative journalism at News We’re breaking five stories today based on verifiable financial data which everyone missed for years.
Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?
We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal.
Act like it is science
I am seeing so many doom prognostications, or least severe worries, due to the OAI/HuggingFace incident and related stories. But virtually all of these I find underargued to say the least.