Sameer Nair-Desai

dev econ & health | PhD Student @umichECON | previously @Stanford, @BrownUniversity, @USC

[Lukas Althoff @AlthoffLukas]

Has artificial intelligence already begun to transform the labor market?

We find early shifts consistent with our model: jobs & college majors predicted to benefit are already growing.

🚨 New paper with @ReichardtHugo: "Task-Specific Technical Change and Comparative Advantage"

[Hugo Reichardt @ReichardtHugo]

🚨 New working paper with @AlthoffLukas!

How will Artificial Intelligence affect the labor market?

We predict that AI will substantially decrease wage inequality ⬇️ while raising wages on average by 21% ⬆️.

These predictions are based on a general equilibrium task-based labor market model that we build, estimate, and apply to the case of AI.

"Simplification" (tasks getting easier) is the key mechanism behind AI's equalizing effect.

https://t.co/q9Zp1r27YR

[Rafael Jiménez Durán @PriceTheorist]

Very happy to see our review article finally in print!

[Lukas Althoff @AlthoffLukas]

I'm hiring a Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant starting fall 2025. Together, we will build and analyze big data to study inequality in America. @Stanford @SIEPR https://t.co/uZGHk9BNqP

[Ellora Derenoncourt @EDerenoncourt]

What are the main takeaways from our paper “Wealth of Two Nations,” on the historical evolution of the U.S. racial wealth gap? Check out this new @INETeconomics video where I walk through our findings! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Emma LaGuardia @EmmaJLaG]

Grad students in their natural habitat (the leftovers table in the dark)

[Jacob Conway @JacobCConway]

Matthew Gentzkow is one of the best researchers and human beings that I have ever worked with (and been advised by). I highly recommend this opportunity to work with him as a predoc!

[Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) @CEGA_UC]

Ever wondered how groundbreaking research comes to life?

🎙️Tune in to the Backstory podcast by @bh_aakash, featuring @tedmiguel of @berkeleyecon & @CEGA_UC and @PaulFNiehaus of @GiveDirectly & @UCSDEcon.

[Ro'ee Levy @RoeeLevyZ]

Excited that our paper on the economics of social media is forthcoming at the JEL!

[Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) @BrendanNyhan]

New article from the U.S. 2020 Facebook & Instagram Election Study in @PNASNews (academic team led by @HuntAllcott & Gentzkow): Deactivation of FB/IG for 6 weeks before the 2020 election reduced online participation but otherwise had mostly null effects https://t.co/bZUxVYn9S7

[Neil Malhotra @namalhotra]

The largest social media deactivation RCT was just published in PNAS: https://t.co/3e2Sb4bPWH

[Janet Malzahn @janetmalzahn]

Writing my inaugural tweet to share this thread from @ahall_research on our new working paper about how election-denying Republicans fared in the 2022 midterms! Check it out 👇

[The Rockefeller Foundation @RockefellerFdn]

Omicron-specific booster shots are here. A new @IFL_Brown report calls for 3 key structural changes to increase vaccine demand:

✔️Invest in communications infrastructures
✔️Align with community needs and values
✔️Integrate vaccine demand assessments

https://t.co/KVLLsAw4AV

[Health Affairs @Health_Affairs]

In their new paper, @Joe_Bruch of @UChicagoPHS & @Harvard + coauthors find no statistically significant differences in the 7-day unplanned hospital visit rate, total costs of encounters, or volume of patient encounters between #ASCs that were & weren't acquired by private equity.

[Ben Sprung-Keyser @bsprungkeyser]

How much does where you grow up determine the labor markets that you’re exposed to in adulthood?

Excited to share a new working paper with @nhendren82 and Sonya Porter.

Here’s a thread on our work (1/N):

https://t.co/o5soZjjPmT

[BADMON @joeyBADASS]

2000 available now. Everywhere.

[San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle]

Data on racial profiling in California shows the problem is only getting worse, according to a Chronicle analysis.

In San Francisco and Los Angeles, Black people were nearly 6 times more likely to be stopped by police than white residents in 2020. https://t.co/msFLYCC21V

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

Gonna be very weird if Supreme Court ends a constitutional right to obtain an abortion next week, saying it should be left to the States to decide, right after it just imposed a constitutional right to concealed carry of firearms, saying it cannot be left to the States to decide

[Brown Information Futures Lab @IFL_Brown]

Welcome to the Information Futures Lab @Brown_SPH! Our team works to advance healthy information spaces around the world. How? Find out: https://t.co/k2lBIgd1cZ