Martin Abel
@martinabel_econ
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AP of Economics at @Bowdoin College. Development, labor and behavioral. Gender and discrimination. dad x 3, failing chicken farmer.
Brunswick, ME
Joined October 2013
🚨 #1/n New WP with @BurgerRulof on what people associate with names and how it can contribute to racial discrimination.
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7/ With these caveats in mind, results suggest that widely documented professed AI bias may not be reliable indicators of willingness to pay for human creative labor. Link to paper:
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6/ Several limitations and open questions we discuss in the paper, incl. effects of actual differences in AI and human writing and whether readers act differently in real-world setting.
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5/ In hypothetical question, 37% profess they would be willing to pay more if the same story was written by a human. Reasons: more meaningful (81%), supporting livelihoods of writers (64%) and ethical / environmental concerns (32%).
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4/ By contrast, we find a large AI bias in content assessment (0.28 sd in index)
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3/ Results: No difference in willingness to pay (see figure), willingness to work, or time spent reading.
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2/ Research Design:.· Nationally representative (US) online sample, N=654.· Randomize whether short story is labeled as AI- or human-generated.· At story midpoint: elicit content assessment and willingness to pay (money & work time).· Read end of story if WTP > random price.
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1/ New WP.Short story labeled AI-generated receives worse content assessment than *same* story labeled human-generated. However, there are *no* differences in people’s willingness to pay (money or work time) to finish reading the story, nor in actual time people invest reading.
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RT @sararlowes: Please consider applying to a pre-doc position at UCSD. Projects at the intersection of development and culture in Africa w….
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RT @TomanBarsbai: 📢We're hiring a pre-doc to work on @malengo!. Join @MattSutter_MPI @MarcelloPerezAl @demirelmerve Philipp Moskopp & me in….
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RT @SarahVincent_: Yesterday I attended the session "Publishing in #Economics" at the #NEUDC2024 with @MelissaLDell (JPE) @afosterri (JDE)….
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RT @QJEHarvard: Recently accepted by #QJE, “LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation,” by Evsyukova (@yu_ev….
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Abstract. We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals’ job networks across the United States using a two-stage field experiment with 400+ f
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RT @MattSutter_MPI: We have new post-doc positions at the MPI in Bonn. We look forward to receiving many applications.
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RT @UChicago: Reflecting on the honor of winning a Nobel Prize, Prof. James A. Robinson said Monday at his home: “It’s a little bit emotion….
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RT @dmckenzie001: I've just done the annual update of the curated posts on the Development Impact blog:.1) Technical topics and methods for….
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This is a curated list of our technical postings, to serve as a one-stop shop for your technical reading. I’ve focused here on our posts on methodological issues in impact evaluation – we also have a...
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RT @IngridWoolard: @martinwittenbe1 Martin Wittenberg passed away this evening after a long fight with cancer. He will be remembered as a….
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RT @bassi_vittorio: 🚨 New paper 🚨 .Our RCT shows that in Uganda the returns to vocational training survive the pandemic: skilled workers ac….
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RT @DaveEvansPhD: The Quarterly Journal of Economics before and after @LKatz42 took over. from @DavidAutor and @P….
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RT @LeanderHeldring: 🚨Job alert🚨@edoardoteso and I are looking for a predoc, for 1 or 2 years, to start immediately. Work with us on politi….
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