This week in In Development Magazine, we have a discussion between Timothy Ogden and Michael Kremer about Kremer’s approach to economics, and Tim’s reflections on how economics has changed in the last decade.1
Brazilian families spend nearly 30% of their incomes servicing debt.
No, really, the immigrants are not causing an increase in the crime rate.
Economics, you’re broken: “The analysis reveals a trend of declining concentration in the institutional affiliations of award-winning researchers [from the 1820s to the 2020s], shifting from a few science-strong universities in high-income countries to a more diverse set of institutions across the world. The decline in concentration is observed in all fields except one: economics.”
Man, it’s weird to see your tiny subculture on the front of NYMag.
Physician performance improves with LLM access.
Subject acceleration is good and leads to more people continuing math education.2
The Kremlin spends less than $2 billion per year on disinformation. Honestly, this is… shockingly little?
I appreciate P. Aronow’s commitment to being a menace.3 He has just put out a paper with the following abstract:
“In contemporary mathematical and quantitative research, the absence of a disclosure regarding LLM use is cause for suspicion. If a large language model was used, the absence of a disclosure misrepresents how the research was done. If no large language model was used, the authors declined an inexpensive and effective check of their results without acknowledgment or justification. Thus a failure to disclose is evidence of either dishonesty or carelessness.”
Countries with more cats are also happier. OK, there is no identification strategy to be found here, but I am choosing to believe this is causal.
We will have our usual Thursday essay as well; this is in response to Michael starting as the Chief Economist at the Bank.
I took calculus in eighth grade and wholeheartedly endorse this.
He also personally offers a prize for bravery in the social sciences.