New working paper joint with @elianalaferrara and Cheaheon Lim on estimating norms complementarities with social spillovers. (Link: https://t.co/Z79UCa5pqv)
@anup_malani Anup, would you be able to share the skill? I use AI intensively to write (particularly to fix grammar) but I massively edit since it usually kills my “voice”. Would be very interested in trying your approach
From field experiments to policy interventions at scale.
My latest commentary @ScienceMagazine - after reading @Econ_4_Everyone hard to think of anything else!
https://t.co/5xhOi3gEV9
Ph.D. Candidate Chinemelu Okafor has published her first working paper, titled Protest Matters: The Effects of Protests on Economic Redistribution, in NBER https://t.co/ehqPN4nLUA #GovGrads
Social scientists working with materials requiring digitization can only study what machines can read. In practice, that means printed Latin-script documents from well-funded archives. In a new working paper, I show that Vision Language Models used zero-shot outperform every existing OCR system across every script evaluated, and I propose a pipeline for deploying them on new collections. I apply it to six archival collections spanning 1.8 million pages across six countries for under $1,900.
Check out this video interview with Andrew Kao, a PhD candidate at @Harvard, about his #ASSA2026 poster on the unintended consequences of political party bans. https://t.co/s2cBm1LwoF
Surveying recent research on changing culture and social norms in developing countries and proposing a simple framework to interpret these changes, from @elianalaferrara and @YanagizawaD https://t.co/Fkwlc6bs6G