David Deming
@ProfDavidDeming
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Danoff Dean of Harvard College @harvard. Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy @Kennedy_School. Newsletter - https://t.co/rXOPJD8ct3
Cambridge, MA
Joined January 2017
Personal news. I am starting a new job on July 1: https://t.co/6w75NuZUUH Still planning to do research and writing, although perhaps at a slower pace!
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Economist who serves as Kirkland House faculty leader begins in new role July 1.
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This was fun @DKThomp, thanks for having me!
New pod: Something very strange is happening to the labor market for college graduates. Their unemployment is rising much faster than the overall economy—in a way that's unprecedented in the last 40 yrs. And it's not just that. MBA graduates are having a harder and harder time
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great article @DKThomp!
New essay: Something strange—and possibly worrying—is happening to the job market for college grads: unemployment for recent grads is rising, while law school applications are surging. Maybe it's a sign of Trumpy chaos. Maybe it's a sign of something more structural. So,
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Leaders who are good at managing artificially intelligent agents are also good at managing humans, from Ben Weidmann, Yixian Xu, and @ProfDavidDeming
https://t.co/wnuj9QiUj5
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Thanks @emollick. I wrote a summary of the paper here, including a discussion of how it relates to your Cybernetic teammates paper: https://t.co/LPbazOASM8
Harvard study shows we can measure leadership skills by seeing how folks manage GPT-4o simulated people AI assessments strongly correlate (r=0.81) with human team assessments. Effective leaders ask questions & do conversational turn-taking and have fluid & social intelligence
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Is AI already shaking up labor market? A new paper by HKS's @ProfDavidDeming and @LHSummers offers early evidence of artificial intelligence disrupting the workforce
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Four trends point to major change, say researchers David Deming and Lawrence Summers, who studied a century of tech disruptions.
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Pleased to welcome @Harvard economist @ProfDavidDeming to the #ManagingTheFutureOfWork podcast. Great insights on AI's early impact on the #labormarket, the evolving #skills picture, higher-ed & more. https://t.co/oQCFg7dmXf . #AI #education #communitycollege #college
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Who uses generative AI in the workplace? Will the spread of GenAI tools propel a lasting productivity boom in the United States? Harvard University @ProfDavidDeming has some answers that are grounded in data. Watch the latest episode of Economics Applied with host Steven Davis:
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The Trump administration’s cuts to university research grants will make America sicker and poorer in the long run, @ProfDavidDeming writes. DOGE should stop "confusing efficiency with ill-conceived budget cuts."
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The Trump administration’s cuts to university research grants will make America sicker and poorer in the long run.
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The Trump administration’s cuts to university research grants will make America sicker and poorer in the long run, @ProfDavidDeming writes. DOGE should stop "confusing efficiency with ill-conceived budget cuts."
theatlantic.com
The Trump administration’s cuts to university research grants will make America sicker and poorer in the long run.
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Slashing science funding is the opposite of efficiency The Trump administration’s cuts to university research grants will make America sicker and poorer in the long run. My latest in The Atlantic (link below):
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America is replacing bad jobs with good jobs. From 2016 to 2022, high-skilled jobs soared while low-skill and mid-skill jobs vanished. Overall employment rates went up. Americans are moving from bad jobs to good jobs.
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From @ProfDavidDeming and @LHSummers @AspenEcon paper “Technological Disruption in the US Labor Market” https://t.co/oYwTPTrn0S
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DAVID DEMING, CHRISTOPHER ONG, LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS This paper explores past episodes of technological disruption in the US labor market, with the goal of learning lessons about the likely future...
America is replacing bad jobs with good jobs. From 2016 to 2022, high-skilled jobs soared while low-skill and mid-skill jobs vanished. Overall employment rates went up. Americans are moving from bad jobs to good jobs.
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Synthesis of the returns to education and an argument for a new approach that treats workers as agents by @ProfDavidDeming + Silliman https://t.co/CtQu1QeNSc
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TODAY: @ProfDavidDeming of @Kennedy_School joins us for his talk, "The (Possible) Labor Market Impacts of AI." 12p PT | 3p ET Register now for this free virtual event. https://t.co/qsHNeBwtPB
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Join us on November 21, 2024, when David Deming of the Harvard Kennedy School stops by the Lab for his talk, "The (Possible) Labor Market Impacts of AI."
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Looking forward to this!
Join us next Thursday 11/21 when @ProfDavidDeming of @Kennedy_School stops by the Lab to talk about the possible labor market impacts of AI. As always, our seminars are free, virtual, and open to everyone. https://t.co/qsHNeBx1F9
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Thanks for a great discussion @MichaelPetrilli!
Really interesting discussion w/ @ProfDavidDeming about the importance of building up credentialing programs to open up job opportunities for those who don't have college degrees (he argues that eliminating college degree requirements is not enough). https://t.co/O6VOtLchSY
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On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, @ProfDavidDeming joins @MichaelPetrilli and David Griffith to discuss Deming's article in The Atlantic arguing for supply-side policies in career and technical education. Listen now.
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On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, David Deming, a professor of Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School, joins Mike and David to discuss his article in The Atlantic arguing that...
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Today on Forked Lightning: In defense of email jobs Office work and the economic value of better communication https://t.co/RvYPiuWF7V The first of a two-part series about the rise (and fall?) of white-collar office and administrative support occupations With a special nod to
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