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Peter Bergman
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Associate Prof. of Economics @utaustin. Director http://learningcollider.org. @NBERpubs affiliate. Co-Chair @mit @jpal edtech. Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow. www.peter-bergman.com.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · Jun 2
Our work now published showing how better AI can improve both accuracy and diversity in hiring relative to supervised learning tools and status-quo human hiring.
reveconstudies.bsky.social The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · Jun 2
Li, @lindseyraymond.bsky.social & @peterbergman.bsky.social show that incorporating exploration into an interview screening algorithm improves demographic diversity & hiring efficiency, while traditional supervised learning-only tools improve hiring rates at the expense of minority applicants.

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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 23h
Good report here on how very little TANF funds actually go to supporting low income families. It has become a slush fund for states to spend on things that have little to do with program’s mission.

“How a $30 Billion Welfare Program Became a ‘Slush Fund’ for States”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How a $30 Billion Welfare Program Became a ‘Slush Fund’ for States
Republicans and Democrats alike decry the lack of oversight for America’s famous antipoverty experiment.
www.wsj.com

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 2d
Y'all, @sandydarity.bsky.social is on #bluesky!

Dr. Sandy Darity is one the top experts on the racial wealth gap for Black Americans. Alongside Dr. Kristen Mullen, they find that giving every Black American a direct payment of $267,000 would help close the racial wealth gap. #blacksky
William ‘Sandy’ Darity insists federal dollars are the only path to full reparations - Andscape
Advocates for Black equality call many things “reparations” – educational programs, housing assistance, health care clinics, even efforts to foster reconciliation between the races. But there is a sch...
andscape.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d
Q: What time is kickoff?

A: The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. from one group called the “New England Patriots” and another called the “Seattle Seahawks.”
FAQs for This Weekend’s Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football
What time is kickoff? The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. f...
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Joel Suss @joelsuss.ft.com · 3d
This is a great chart by the @economist.com summing up Kevin Warsh using LLMs and over 200 speeches/op-eds. I did a similar exercise showing same result (Warsh v FOMC) but with less data

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 3d
MOAR
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Leader of Paul Weiss Resigns Over Epstein Ties
Newly released files show Brad Karp exchanged emails about a client with convicted sex offender.
www.wsj.com

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 3d
#EconSky: Tymofiy Mylovanov from the Kyiv School of Economics is a simply a hero.

While Trump is busy allying with Putin, Tymofiy is out in the cold working for his students and his country.

I will match all donations to KSE, up to $1K total (link below).

www.youtube.com/shorts/RgDXI...
Update from KSE
YouTube video by Tymofiy Mylovanov
www.youtube.com

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him

The startling offer, which was described by two people familiar with the conversation, was swiftly rejected by Schumer.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/p...
Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project — if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last month that he was finally prepared to drop his freeze on billions of dollars in funding for a major New York infrastructure projec...
www.cnn.com

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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 3d
Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com
www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...
Tenure Will Be Eliminated at Most of Oklahoma’s Public Colleges, Governor Says
Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, directed the state’s two-dozen regional universities and community colleges to phase out the practice. Existing faculty members will be grandfathered in.
www.chronicle.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d
Lol thank you R/Bitcoin. Here is a crypto investor walking towards the light. Next he will discover the fundamental price of Bitcoin is $0 (or at least whatever the demand for organised crime use can sustain)

Reposted by Markus Klein, Peter Bergman

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 6d
Private after school tutoring centers have tripled in number over the last 25-30 years.

Thrilled to see EFP Takeaways' excellent summary of this, one of my best-titled papers ("Kumon In").

aefpweb.org/files/Kim_Su...

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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · 6d
My talk on "Inference for group interaction experiments" from the Foundations of Causal Inference workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute is available via their Youtube channel: youtu.be/3hh-bM8YNSc?...
Prof. Cyrus Samii | Inference for Group Interaction Experiments
YouTube video by INI Seminar Room 1
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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 7d
The Criminal Justice team at Arnold Ventures now has a Slack channel up and running, to share research ideas and opporutunities we see in the policy/practice space, with academic scholars. All researchers are welcome! Email me for the link. jdoleac@arnoldventures.org

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 8d
Breaking: Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in stunning special election upset.
Democrat wins special election for red Texas Senate seat
With ballots tallied from all but a handful of voting centers, Rehmet had 57% of the vote, besting the 43% for his GOP opponent, Leigh Wambsganss, who had a massive spending advantage.
www.texastribune.org

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 8d
Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
economist.com/britain/2026...
X Posts about London Crime - large growth in number of likes after monetisation introduced

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10d
I thought this was fake, but apparently, they've arrested Don Lemon for reporting from Minneapolis.

I'm not a huge Don Lemon fan, but this is totalitarian nonsense meant to threaten anyone who reports on the regime's horrors.
Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest
www.nytimes.com

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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 10d
New post: What is the impact of AI on productivity?

I review all of the studies and data that I can find and try to provide a synthesis.

A disagreement emerges: micro studies find positive benefits but these benefits are yet to show up in the macro data.

aleximas.substack.com/p/what-is-th... 🧵
What is the impact of AI on productivity?
Reconciling the micro and the macro evidence
aleximas.substack.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11d
Another source of vendor capture in safety net systems is the building of the digital infrastructure. Here, Deloitte dominates. Its a lot of money. Georgia's work requirements reforms spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and admin costs as on healthcare for people.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 11d
I really appreciate that @bestofecontwitter.bsky.social helps me keep up without having to give that site clicks.

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 11d
Happening Now in Minneapolis: Windows are boarded up and riot police stand behind barricades in preparation of tonight's noise demo protesting ICE agents staying at the Graduate by Hilton Hotel on the campus of the University of MN. This is at least the 3rd noise demo at the Graduate.

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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 11d
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:

"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 11d
Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.
lpeproject.org

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12d
“An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Democrats so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package.”

newrepublic.com/article/2057...
Donald Trump Is Frightened
Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.
newrepublic.com

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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 12d
📣 Thrilled to announce our 5th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 7-8 Sept 2026, @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn.

Keynotes: @peterbergman.bsky.social (University of Texas at Austin) & Esther Duflo (@mit.edu, University of Zurich) 🫶🏻

Submission deadline May 15, 2026 🚨

#EconSky

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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 12d
ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown
Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative
www.theguardian.com

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 12d
New measurement opportunity for the value of a statiscal life.
rani.bsky.social Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social · 13d
New data! Tesla’s Robotaxi is way cheaper than Uber, Lyft, or Waymo — but you’ll have to wait a lot longer for one sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

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Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social · 13d
New data! Tesla’s Robotaxi is way cheaper than Uber, Lyft, or Waymo — but you’ll have to wait a lot longer for one sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 14d
📢 Call for papers:

CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education
co-organized w/ Eric Hanushek (Stanford)

🏛️ 11-12 Sept 2026, Munich

🧑‍🏫 Keynote: John List (Chicago) @johnlist.bsky.social

👉 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

⏰ Deadline: 11 May 2026

🖼️ Past programs:
sites.google.com/view/woessma...