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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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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 19h
Sticking with Week of Art despite it all... Day 5, art that describes the word to challenge it & make it otherwise.

NY Print Center showed works by William Villalongo & Shraddha Ramani, remaking DuBois's famous data visualizations.
Freeform shapes in a rainbow of colors showing "Occupations of Black Americans, 1900-2021"

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 1d
Heading to Philadelphia for the #ASSA2026. Presenting research you think our readers would be interested in? Working on something you think I should know about? Reach out here or by any of the ways linked in my bio: www.nytimes.com/by/ben-casse... #EconSky
Ben Casselman
Ben Casselman is the chief economics correspondent for The Times. He has reported on the economy for nearly 20 years.
www.nytimes.com

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 2d
True, too

gwagner.com/risky-climate-nyc
robertdsullivan.bsky.social Robert David Sullivan @robertdsullivan.bsky.social · 2d
Also the best thing New York City can do for the United States

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 2d
On monotonicity violations in judge leniency IV designs: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 4d
The richest man on earth, the richest man in human history, personally obliterated the US agency that had been preventing these horrors.

He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on.

Inhuman.
pwhickey.bsky.social Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 4d
Please read this & speak out.
Understand how relatively modest US investments in health systems and commodities can stem an unspeakable burden of suffering.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.

One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.

Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 4d
Yo what the fuck short form videos are bad

Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions

arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714

Ht: HowTown

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 6d
Is this AI? I saw there’s a trend of using AI to turn a song into a soul version, eg lightning crashes with strings and a gospel choir: music.apple.com/us/album/lig...
Lightning Crashes by
Song · 2025 · Duration 4:44
music.apple.com

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 9d
Also, I do value and miss discussions from you and @itaisher.bsky.social but I understand it can be frustrating and not worth it!

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 9d
Bluesky is getting too many anti-mastodonites. That and anti-dentites.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 9d
Totally agree re: your original post, and point taken.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 9d
Okay. We disagree.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 9d
I’m left handed, FWIW. So you got that too.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 9d
I think ownership is just another product characteristic. I would view a boycott as a concerted effort to coordinate. But I’m no expert on boycotts so others probably have more informed opinions there.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 9d
I don’t see that as a bigger problem than bigoted ownership, no. But there’s not much to argue there. You disagree. That’s fair enough.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 9d
Many people find the owner of the other platform repugnant and therefore choose not to use it. It doesn’t seem there’s much more to it than that. It could be greatest platform on earth otherwise but people would, nonetheless, choose not to use it. The rest is largely subjective line drawing.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 10d
To put it rather dryly: the ownership is a product characteristic I strongly disfavor. I don’t like being on a platform he owns.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 10d
In seriousness X is really bad and a lunatic controls the algorithm and people’s social temperature there. I do not understand why people keep using it.

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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 11d
Pretty cool to have one of my papers listed as most cited in the Economic Reports of the President from the past 15 years.

See the recent NBER working paper for the source on this: www.nber.org/papers/w34597
List of frequently cited papers including Cohodes et al. (2016) "The Effect of Child Health Insurance Access on Schooling."

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 12d
Since Bari Weiss and Trump don’t want you to see this, read this thread and share widely.
akivamcohen.bsky.social AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 12d
This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.

It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15d
It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.

youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
Happy Hanukkah
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
youtu.be

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 16d
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 16d
This is hilarious: what happens when AI agent operates an actual vending machine.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 18d
Kerr is just randomizing lineups to make sure he gets a causal estimate of +/-. The regular season is just a multi-arm bandit problem to Steve.

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Golden State Warriors @warriorsofficial.bsky.social · 22d
HOW 🤯

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 24d
“The guy who bedazzled this room in gold thinks your child has too many pencils.” - Jimmy Kimmel

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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 24d
I have a lot more to say about Kate and how all my life I've wanted to be able to work with someone like her and when I finally got do it she exceeds all of my expectations about how great a great advisor can be. I want everyone to know how incredible Kate was to her students.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 24d
Oh no, how incredibly sad. Brilliant, patient, kind. Devastating.

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 24d
The brilliant Kate Ho has passed away.

She was an amazing economist and a genuinely kind human being. Her work shaped how we think about healthcare markets and her generosity touched everyone lucky enough to know her.

The profession and the world are poorer without her.

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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 24d
“agents told her in the truck that if she didn’t watch herself “they were going to pull me over to the side of the road and give me this OC,” law enforcement shorthand for pepper spray”

In detention, they “cut off her wedding ring”

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Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 24d
Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez.

The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work.

And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!