Golub Capital Social Impact Lab
@gsbsilab.bsky.social
Led by @susanathey.bsky.social, the Golub Capital Social Impact Lab at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business uses digital technology and social science to improve the effectiveness of social sector organizations.
New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
October 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
New Paper Alert! Read the thread below for key takeaways from “Does Q&A Boost Engagement? Health Messaging Experiments in the United States and Ghana” by @erikakirgios.bsky.social @susanathey.bsky.social @angeladuckworth.bsky.social et al.
What happens if you *ask* instead of *tell*? Turns out, teasing people with a question before sharing a fact can shape whether people engage with critical health information. Read our new paper in Management Science to learn more: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10....
Does Q&A Boost Engagement? Health Messaging Experiments in the United States and Ghana | Management Science
pubsonline.informs.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
New Paper Alert! Read the thread below for key takeaways from “Does Q&A Boost Engagement? Health Messaging Experiments in the United States and Ghana” by @erikakirgios.bsky.social @susanathey.bsky.social @angeladuckworth.bsky.social et al.
During the @gsb.stanford.edu 100 Faculty Celebration of Scholarship @susanathey.bsky.social highlighted the GSB’s proud tradition of synergy between business and practice during her presentation. Listen to her thoughts and more in the podcast: stanford.io/3K8mcrz
A Century of Impact
In 1925, Herbert Hoover, a Stanford alum and future U.S. president, had an idea. “A graduate School of Business Administration is urgently needed upon the Pacific Coast,” he wrote.
stanford.io
October 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
During the @gsb.stanford.edu 100 Faculty Celebration of Scholarship @susanathey.bsky.social highlighted the GSB’s proud tradition of synergy between business and practice during her presentation. Listen to her thoughts and more in the podcast: stanford.io/3K8mcrz
Earlier this month @susanathey.bsky.social joined Stanford University President Levin, @siepr.bsky.social Director @nealemahoney.bsky.social and other distinguished faculty to connect over cutting-edge research developments at Stanford Open Minds New York.
September 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Earlier this month @susanathey.bsky.social joined Stanford University President Levin, @siepr.bsky.social Director @nealemahoney.bsky.social and other distinguished faculty to connect over cutting-edge research developments at Stanford Open Minds New York.
Listen to Raj Chetty talk about how surrogate indices make it possible to make decisions more quickly using multiple short-term outcomes to predict long-term effects with @nber.org
www.nber.org/research/vid...
www.nber.org/research/vid...
August 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Listen to Raj Chetty talk about how surrogate indices make it possible to make decisions more quickly using multiple short-term outcomes to predict long-term effects with @nber.org
www.nber.org/research/vid...
www.nber.org/research/vid...
Check out @susanathey.bsky.social’s interview on how AI-powered after-the-fact quality checks boost driver performance at Uber—and what it means when AI can track compliance. Insights via @StanfordGSB.
www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/how...
www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/how...
How Uber Steers Its Drivers Toward Better Performance
www.gsb.stanford.edu
August 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Check out @susanathey.bsky.social’s interview on how AI-powered after-the-fact quality checks boost driver performance at Uber—and what it means when AI can track compliance. Insights via @StanfordGSB.
www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/how...
www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/how...
“Governments will play a key role…in whether we actually develop the technology that will help lower-skilled workers become more productive by using AI to augment them with expertise that previously was difficult to acquire.”
July 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“Governments will play a key role…in whether we actually develop the technology that will help lower-skilled workers become more productive by using AI to augment them with expertise that previously was difficult to acquire.”
AI & digitisation are rapidly reshaping the way we work.
Policymakers need to understand how, and what to do about it.
Watch @Susan_Athey speak to G20 leaders about these issues tomorrow 16 July @ 13:30 CET. #G20SouthAfrica
bit.ly/3GyMFgm or bit.ly/44PTXFP
Policymakers need to understand how, and what to do about it.
Watch @Susan_Athey speak to G20 leaders about these issues tomorrow 16 July @ 13:30 CET. #G20SouthAfrica
bit.ly/3GyMFgm or bit.ly/44PTXFP
July 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
AI & digitisation are rapidly reshaping the way we work.
Policymakers need to understand how, and what to do about it.
Watch @Susan_Athey speak to G20 leaders about these issues tomorrow 16 July @ 13:30 CET. #G20SouthAfrica
bit.ly/3GyMFgm or bit.ly/44PTXFP
Policymakers need to understand how, and what to do about it.
Watch @Susan_Athey speak to G20 leaders about these issues tomorrow 16 July @ 13:30 CET. #G20SouthAfrica
bit.ly/3GyMFgm or bit.ly/44PTXFP
If we know someone’s career history, how well can we predict which jobs they’ll have next? Read our profile of @keyonv.bsky.social to learn how ML models can be used to predict workers’ career trajectories & better understand labor markets.
medium.com/@gsb_silab/k...
medium.com/@gsb_silab/k...
Keyon Vafa: Predicting Workers’ Career Trajectories to Better Understand Labor Markets
If we know someone’s career history, how well can we predict which job they’ll have next?
medium.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
If we know someone’s career history, how well can we predict which jobs they’ll have next? Read our profile of @keyonv.bsky.social to learn how ML models can be used to predict workers’ career trajectories & better understand labor markets.
medium.com/@gsb_silab/k...
medium.com/@gsb_silab/k...
Foundation models make great predictions. How should we use them for estimation problems in social science?
New PNAS paper @susanathey.bsky.social & @keyonv.bsky.social & @Blei Lab:
Bad news: Good predictions ≠ good estimates.
Good news: Good estimates possible by fine-tuning models differently 🧵
New PNAS paper @susanathey.bsky.social & @keyonv.bsky.social & @Blei Lab:
Bad news: Good predictions ≠ good estimates.
Good news: Good estimates possible by fine-tuning models differently 🧵
June 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Foundation models make great predictions. How should we use them for estimation problems in social science?
New PNAS paper @susanathey.bsky.social & @keyonv.bsky.social & @Blei Lab:
Bad news: Good predictions ≠ good estimates.
Good news: Good estimates possible by fine-tuning models differently 🧵
New PNAS paper @susanathey.bsky.social & @keyonv.bsky.social & @Blei Lab:
Bad news: Good predictions ≠ good estimates.
Good news: Good estimates possible by fine-tuning models differently 🧵
Online course certificates (from MOOCs) are booming (40M+ learners in 2024). But do these credentials actually help people get jobs? Our team investigated this in a new study by @susanathey.bsky.social & Emil Palikot 👇.
May 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Online course certificates (from MOOCs) are booming (40M+ learners in 2024). But do these credentials actually help people get jobs? Our team investigated this in a new study by @susanathey.bsky.social & Emil Palikot 👇.
How can digital tech empower healthcare providers and improve patient outcomes? 🌍🩺
Read our interview with @gsbsilab.bsky.social affiliate and World Bank economist Berk Ozler to learn how a tablet-based app helped nurses provide patients with personalized counseling…
medium.com/@gsb_silab/b...
Read our interview with @gsbsilab.bsky.social affiliate and World Bank economist Berk Ozler to learn how a tablet-based app helped nurses provide patients with personalized counseling…
medium.com/@gsb_silab/b...
Berk Özler: Helping Nurses Help Patients with Personalized Counseling in Cameroon
Berk Özler was puzzled. He was reading in a news story that in the early 2010s, nearly half of pregnancies in the United States were…
https://medium.com/@gsb_silab/berk-özler-helping-nurses-help-patients-with-personalized-counseling-in-cameroon-5c5978a8b24d
April 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
How can digital tech empower healthcare providers and improve patient outcomes? 🌍🩺
Read our interview with @gsbsilab.bsky.social affiliate and World Bank economist Berk Ozler to learn how a tablet-based app helped nurses provide patients with personalized counseling…
medium.com/@gsb_silab/b...
Read our interview with @gsbsilab.bsky.social affiliate and World Bank economist Berk Ozler to learn how a tablet-based app helped nurses provide patients with personalized counseling…
medium.com/@gsb_silab/b...