Ryan Hill
@RyanReedHill
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Assistant Professor at Northwestern Kellogg researching science and innovation. Living that dad life.
Joined December 2011
A non-economist just leaned over and asked me during an NBER talk: “This social planner, is she in the room with us now?” (It was @dashunwang)
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Curling season is upon us!
Team Shuster's CLUTCH final stone forces a winner-take-all game 3 for the U.S. Olympic Curling Team Trials title. 👀
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It's voting time for the Econ Sci-Fi Reading Group December meeting! We read "classics" in the winter, and there are some fun options this year. Feel free to join if you are interested in economics and science fiction! https://t.co/hR6G5jGKsa
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ECONOMICS SCI-FI BOOK CLUB Winter 2025 Voting Voting is open until November 20 (new deadline) for this year's Winter Book Club (Classics edition) selections. Check out the options listed and click on...
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Thanks Ryan! Building https://t.co/9lIlIx35GO depends on two tools almost all economists are inefficiently underutilizing. 1. Agentic coding 2. Agentic scraping Agentic coding is the use of tools like Codex/Claude Code/Cursor to write code. I've been using agentic coding tools
This is a cool example of digital public goods facilitated by LLMs. We’ve all long wanted this tool, but it was probably hard to maintain. I assume the LLMs are doing the work on the backend to make it feasible for @aniketapanjwani to build this quickly, update, and distribute
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This is a cool example of digital public goods facilitated by LLMs. We’ve all long wanted this tool, but it was probably hard to maintain. I assume the LLMs are doing the work on the backend to make it feasible for @aniketapanjwani to build this quickly, update, and distribute
I'm making a database of every 2025-2026 econ PhD job market candidate: https://t.co/uCCWVtsnEJ - 18 institutions and 307 candidates so far - Filter by institution/field/advisor - CVs, JMPs, links to candidate site Will be adding every finance/econ candidate over coming weeks!
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I'm making a database of every 2025-2026 econ PhD job market candidate: https://t.co/uCCWVtsnEJ - 18 institutions and 307 candidates so far - Filter by institution/field/advisor - CVs, JMPs, links to candidate site Will be adding every finance/econ candidate over coming weeks!
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Econ students appear to be left of other business disciples and right of other social sciences
Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college–noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3 https://t.co/qbjxdFVPlr
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Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college–noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3 https://t.co/qbjxdFVPlr
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CHEPS and @SdsuEcon welcome @1rileywilson to present his working paper (with @MikeJAndrews44, @RyanReedHill and @joepricebyu) “Like A Good Neighbor: The Role of Neighbors in Career Choice” Join us on Thur 10/30, 3:30PM PT in AL 660 or at: https://t.co/tgXtOkVyux
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Job opening - Please help us spread the word to the right physicists! ****** Physics RA opening at Kellogg ****** We are seeking a motivated research assistant to work on problems at the interface of nonequilibrium statistical physics and the social sciences. The project
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With today's news, worth re-upping this footnote from the Aghion, Howitt, et al "inverted-U" paper. (Click to the replies to see Nick Bloom defend this head-scratching sample selection criteria 😂)
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I have the good fortune of co-advising two econ PhDs with Joel Mokyr right now. At 79, he still gives detailed comments on drafts and meets with his students regularly. He's an energetic advisor and is deeply committed to the next generation researchers. Very admirable
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr
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I love Kevin's enthusiasm for new tools but... Research doesn't have to be an arms race. If you're not adopting AI tools this quickly, you can still be a productive researcher. I know Nobel Prize winners who still type with two fingers.
@joshgans and I did an internal talk on AI for research. Mostly demos, so no slides, but broadly: 1) Research should be efficient, open & replicable. 2) AI helps will all three. 3) Always use the best model. 4) Structure your processes/tools/etc. so you can continue to do 3. 1/15
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One of my favorite TikToks is the guy who goes around and asks college students their favorite songs of all time. Mentioned: Fleetwood Mac, Van Morrison, Billy Joel, Mazzy Star, etc, Digitization really changed our music tastes for the better. https://t.co/syWDagT7tN
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52K likes, 420 comments. “Rating each others’ favorite songs of all time at UC Berkeley! Who has the best music taste here? ”
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Love working at an institute of higher learning where they test out hype videos for the football games at full volume at 4:00 pm on a Thursday
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Using the dave ramsey snowball method to work through my delinquent referee assignments
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Credit to the senators from both parties who are supporting the NIH
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Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday
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BREAKING: Northwestern announced Tuesday afternoon that it will eliminate more than 400 staff positions. — Reported by @jerrwu
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Northwestern is set to eliminate more than 400 staff positions as it continues to grapple with a $790 million federal funding freeze in place from the Trump administration, multiple people familiar...
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