James Bailey
@jbailey
Professor @ProvidenceCol, Health Economist, two-bit hedge wizard. Formerly @1ArmedEconomist
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I have lots of ideas for economics papers I'd like to write but not so much time to write them. So I decided to just post many of them publicly to see if anyone else wants to write them: economistwritingeveryday.com/2023/01/26/ste…
I have a long list of books and I want to know which ones don't have digital copies anywhere online. ChatGPT 5.1 Thinking is shockingly bad at checking, it keeps saying books aren't online anywhere that are in fact on the front page of Google. Would any other model be better?
I am building out Meta's compute desk. I am looking for folks with background in any of: deep learning, supply chains, commodities, semiconductors, sovereigns, energy, Excel, prediction markets, monitoring situations, etc. Candidates should have experience in at least one of…
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I should probably hoard this advice because societies and economies need hierarchies or whatever but I asked the woman who discovered glp drugs what her main career advice was and it was to pursue your actual curiosities and never ever be a manager
One of the funny things from the Harvard document dump about the Francesca Gino allegations is that one of the co-authors noticed something was wrong with Dan Ariely's car mileage data, but four words from him were enough to assuage his or her doubt.
The trend is real wsj.com/tech/personal-…
Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza says that the only social media apps he has on his phone right now are YouTube and LinkedIn. How he avoids distractions
Apple saving me from myself… Tahoe makes Safari so unwieldy at handling large numbers of tabs that I’m going to have to finally deal with the 200 I have open
If Twitter were a cursed artifact, which one would it be? Are we thinking Frostmourne? A Palantir?
This online, PhD-level course in the economics of innovation is a huge opportunity. Taught by some of the world's top scholars on this: @heidilwilliams_ @ChadJonesEcon @pierre_azoulay +many others! (Also: me.) Co-sponsored by @IFP It's free. Applications due January 9th! 🧵
Since the data analysis process just got a lot faster and cheaper, two complements just got a lot more valuable : - clear and interesting thoughts about how to improve identification and interpret empirical results - a sense for what's important
Here's proof that Claude Code can write an entire empirical polisci paper. To validate my claim that AI agents are coming for polisci "like a freight train", today I had Claude Code fully replicate and extend an old paper of mine estimating the effect of universal vote-by-mail…
AEA poster session is by far the busiest I’ve ever seen it- they finally realized you need to put the coffee there to attract people #ASSA2026
Professional and market forecasts last January of what the 2025 economy would be like were... pretty good? economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/01/01/how…
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