I occasionally tweet summaries of papers I find particularly interesting/important/enjoyable or collect a number of thematically related pieces in a thread. This 🧵-of-🧵 collects them.

🚨1/N Really excited to announce a new working paper, “Interviews” 🚨 We demonstrate that interviews allow workers to screen firms and preview whether the job is a good match for them—using ~500k Glassdoor reports + a randomized field experiment. 🧵

🔗to paper https://t.co/YsuoDouSb1 🔗to today's (very short) slides:

Great fun to present "Job Transformation, Specialization, and the Labor Market Effects of AI" (joint with the fantastic @lukasfmann) @nberpubs EFG Fall Meeting today! 🔗to paper in tweet below. Thanks to @glviolante & Corina Boar for organizing & including us in the program!

Join us for our upcoming panel discussion "New views on r*: are higher interest rates here to last?", with Charles Goodhart, @LukaszRachel and Ricardo Reis @R2Rsquared. 📅 Monday 03 November ⏲️6.00pm to 7.00pm To find out more visit: https://t.co/4VJqf2s4p4 #LSECFM

Forthcoming in the AER: "Monetary Cooperation during Global Inflation Surges" by Luca Fornaro and Federica Romei.

Thanks so much to all the presenters & participants! 🔗 The slides for all the talks are now available here:

Thanks @_LukasFreund_ for inviting me--really fantastic workshop and lots of very relevant and exciting work on the Economics and AI.

I am @UNC_econ since January this year and it has been the very, very best time possible. If you are on the #econ #jobmarket and interested in joining an ambitious, vibrant department with amazing and supporting colleagues: we have *several* positions https://t.co/L3vHFGEFzJ

We are officially on the market this year with 3⃣ positions! Come work with us in 🇨🇦! I am happy to talk to anyone about our department, DMs open! Please share widely and let your students know. PS: You can visit our department if you are coming to this year CSMG, Nov 14-15!

Program with 🔗 to papers: https://t.co/QZO4RV3VQH I'll write a🧵with brief summaries of the papers following the event. (I don't dare follow @lugaricano's magisterial workshop live-tweeting:))

Very much looking forward to our @BostonCollege workshop on *The Macro & Labor Market Consequences of AI* this Friday! Featuring🎙️by Pascual Restrepo, @lukasfmann, @DanialLashkari, Jaromir Nosal, @AndersPHumlum, @L_Schmidt_Econ & a Keynote by @raffasadun.

👋New paper! How do hours worked vary across countries, historically, and why? We construct a new microdatabase covering 160 countries, including long time series in 86 countries, to revisit these questions. 👇

@cesifoti Physical (e.g., spectral) ideas hold very deep insights about the structure of networks, and deserve respect and awe. But bringing these fruitfully into economics requires a comparable respect for certain deep ideas about markets and equilibrium.

@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

More AI startups or just more people slapping "AI" on everything? @AakashKalyani, @serdarozkanEN, and other folks from the St. Louis Fed (@stlouisfed) have a very nice article with some insights on that. 👇1/4

This figure, from a recent article by @PrestonCooper93 at @AEI, is one of the most striking graphs I’ve seen in some time regarding universities: enrollments are falling, but the decline is concentrated more than 100% in lower-quality schools. As the demographic tidal wave of

My coauthors and I are hiring a project coordinator for new research on an innovative jail-based rehabilitation paper (IGNITE), building on our recent QJE Apply at the link below 👇

Very excited to announce that Cornell is hiring an AP in Labor Econ, and I will be chairing the recruitment committee. Please spread the word! https://t.co/1XtgcC6iKF

Rapid advances in AI means machines may take over an expanding set of tasks. Who will gain and who will lose from this wave of automation? Visiting scholars @_LukasFreund_ @BostonCollege & @lukasfmann @WPCareySchool answer this question in their new paper. https://t.co/tnjwcbCSBG

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