Peter Bergman

@peterbergman.bsky.social

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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.

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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Reposted by Brad R. Humphreys, Joshua Goodman, Todd Pugatch

Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 6h

If anyone has a job market paper they would like me to repost, tag me and I will do my best to do so! Would love to follow what people are working on more closely.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14h

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Calvin K. Lai, Joshua Goodman , and 8 more Richard S.J. Tol, Calvin K. Lai, Joshua Goodman, Niclas Berggren, Daniel W. Drezner, Aaron Sojourner, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Amy W. Ando, Roddy Theobald, Judith Scott-Clayton, Peter Bergman

Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 15h

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct

Reposted by Martin Tomko, Daniel Kuehn, Nathan P. Kalmoe , and 2 more Martin Tomko, Daniel Kuehn, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Virginia Sapiro, Peter Bergman

Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Peter Bergman

NBER @nber.org · 2d

Low-income households denied SNAP due to administrative barriers suffer downstream consequences. Process-related denials increase debt, delinquencies, and decrease credit scores, from Tatiana Homonoff, Min S. Lee, and Katherine Meckel www.nber.org/papers/w34434

Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder what he thinks of Freedom at Midnight by Collins and Lapierre.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Joshua S. Weitz, John Palfrey , and 1 more Anna O. Law, Joshua S. Weitz, John Palfrey, Peter Bergman

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d

#BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking #SCOTUS for an immediate “administrative” stay of a Rhode Island district judge’s order that is otherwise requiring it to resume the distribution of SNAP benefits from other funding sources no later than the end of today.

Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Peter Bergman

Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful article on Ali Riley who has retired after an amazing career in soccer.

(If her last name sounds familiar to you as an economist, then that's no surprise. She's the daughter of UCLA auction theorist John Riley.)
www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...

Angel City's Ali Riley used her voice for others while playing. She hopes to do more in retirement

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Andrew L. Whitehead , and 5 more Anna O. Law, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Andrew L. Whitehead, Gerald Friedman, Christina Pagel, Olivier Mannoni, Dunlap, Peter Bergman

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”

A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

Reposted by Peter Bergman

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 5d

Excited to post a new working paper with @instrumenthull.bsky.social and Michal Kolesár: arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572

Will post a thread on it soon, but if you're interested in judge/examiner designs, I think you'll find this guide very helpful!

Leniency Designs: An Operator's Manual

We develop a step-by-step guide to leniency (a.k.a. judge or examiner instrument) designs, drawing on recent econometric literatures. The unbiased jackknife instrumental variables estimator (UJIVE) is...

arxiv.org

Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 6d

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 6d

Just wanted to follow up on this 👀

nypost.com/2025/07/19/u...

Exclusive | Andrew Cuomo says he ‘will move to Florida’ if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday he’ll pack and bags and flee south to Florida if he loses the NYC mayoral race to socialist Zohran Mamdani.

nypost.com

Reposted by Peter Bergman

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6d

Andrew Cuomo to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Dorothy Bishop, A. E. Dessler , and 8 more Anna O. Law, Dorothy Bishop, A. E. Dessler, Brendan Nyhan, Rosemary A. Joyce, Melissa R. Michelson, Sanford F. Schram, David R. Miller, Scott A. Imberman, Simon Lester, Peter Bergman

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 7d

We've got you 👍

Reposted by Dani Rodrik, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Dan Goldhaber , and 6 more Dani Rodrik, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Dan Goldhaber, Brendan Nyhan, Mariacristina De Nardi, Robert C. Richards, Daniel Kuehn, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Peter Bergman

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 7d

How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?

New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Coercion and Monopsony in Modern American Manufacturing: Evidence from Alabama Prison Labor
Susan Helper Suresh Naidu Akseli Palomaki Adam Reich
Aaron Sojourner

We study coercion and monopsony in contemporary U.S. manufacturing labor markets. We combine administrative data from the Alabama Department of Corrections work release program with a unique survey of workers in the Alabama auto supply chain
where workers report their work-release status. We first present descriptive patterns of work-release labor, finding that the use of incarcerated (i.e., work-release) labor is concentrated in the auto supply industry, especially in the Montgomery area, where
Hyundai’s assembly plant is located. In the survey, the share of plant-level workers who are incarcerated is negatively correlated with non-incarcerated wages. The survey also enables estimation of hypothetical quit elasticities separately among incarcerated
and non-incarcerated workers. Incarcerated workers are estimated to have quit elasticities less than half that of non-incarcerated workers. Because Alabama law requires employers to pay the same wage to incarcerated and non-incarcerated workers in the same jobs, the additional monopsony power introduced by employer access to incarcerated workers creates an incentive and ability for employers to reduce plant-level wages to, and employment of, non-incarcerated workers. We build a quantitative model of firm-specific labor supply that, for incarcerated workers, distinguishes the roles of coercion (the risk of physical harm in prison from not working), wage garnishment that blunts the consumption effect of higher wages, and monopsony (limited mobility across employers). Using it, we estimate effects on free and incarcerated workers’ welfare from i) reforming prison conditions to eliminate violence, ii) eliminating prison labor wage
garnishment, iii) imposing a $15 minimum wage, &iv) abolishing prison labor. Free worker welfare goes up in all scenarios...

Reposted by Branko Milanovic, Miles Corak, Samuel Bentolila , and 2 more Branko Milanovic, Miles Corak, Samuel Bentolila, Matthias Schnetzer, Peter Bergman

Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 8d

Just out in the New York Times:

My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...

@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Opinion | A.I. Is Deciding Who You Are

In the age of A.I., personal data is anything but personal.

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Michael D. McDonald, Henry Jones, Peter Bergman

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9d

It is now illegal to be anti-Trump. - per Dicktator Donnie.

Reposted by Peter Bergman

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10d

Amid the kids dressed in costumes at the White House Halloween celebration on Thursday, Donald and Melania Trump stood out. Not because they were outfitted as anything particularly ghoulish or fantastical, but because they weren’t. nyti.ms/3LikowC

Donald Trump, wearing a blue suit, red tie and red hat, and Melania Trump, wearing a wool trench coat, greet costumed children. Carved pumpkins are seen in the background.

Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 11d

I miss Looney out there.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Rebecca Solnit, Jonathan A. Eisen , and 23 more Anna O. Law, Rebecca Solnit, Jonathan A. Eisen, Erich Fromm, Euan G. Ritchie, Peter Murphy, Scott L. Greer, Steven French, Leigh Sparks, Cathy N. Davidson, Alan Clarke, David S. Cohen, Alan Richardson, R. M. Wilson, Laura Huenneke, Gerald Friedman, Robert B. Reich, Kate A. Ratliff, Els Torreele, Michael H. Whitworth, Anne Norton, Henry Jones, Sue Timmis, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Colin Woodard, Peter Bergman

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 11d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Reposted by Melanie C. Green, C. Kirabo Jackson, Nathan P. Kalmoe , and 1 more Melanie C. Green, C. Kirabo Jackson, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Peter Bergman

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 12d

AI agents tried to do graphic design, video editing, game development, and administrative chores like scraping data. "Even the best could perform less than 3 percent of the work, earning $1,810 out of a possible $143,991," writes @willknight.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ai-age...

AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers

A new benchmark measures how well AI agents can automate economically valuable chores. Human-level AI is still some ways off.

www.wired.com

Reposted by Peter Bergman

Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 12d

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The Science of Second Chances

Freakonomics for criminal justice, The Science of Second Chances presents a groundbreaking approach to criminal justice reform, revealing how small-scale int...

us.macmillan.com

Reposted by Peter Bergman

Jed Kolko @jedkolko.bsky.social · 12d

Is the payroll data that ADP just announced they're publishing weekly the same or different from what ADP was sharing with the @federalreserve.gov until recently?

(And, if different, how?)

Reposted by Peter Bergman

C. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 13d

Are these stories breaking through at all?

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 13d

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says

The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

www.independent.co.uk

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14d

Fun fact. Trump destruction of soybean exports (rightfully) gets lots of attention. But you know what we sell even more of to China? Education.
2024 soybean exports to China: $13B.
Higher Ed: $14B.
Yes, all those internat’l students count as *exports.* Trump is STILL actively destroying that market.

Reuters @reuters.com · 15d

Bessent says China to delay rare earths rules by a year, buy U.S. soybeans reut.rs/42YJMO9

Bessent says China to delay rare earths rules by a year, buy U.S. soybeans

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that he anticipates that China will revive substantial purchases of U.S. soybeans for several years and will delay its expanded licensing regime for rare earths by a year and re-examine it after two days of trade talks in Malaysia.

reut.rs

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Brendan Nyhan, Scott L. Greer , and 3 more Lisa W. Fazio, Brendan Nyhan, Scott L. Greer, Jon Green, Evan Roberts, Peter Bergman

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15d

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

Reposted by Rebecca Tushnet, Peter Bergman, David Darmofal

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 15d

Scott Bessent owns $25m of rent-seeking soybean property that he promised-- and failed-- to divest. I cannot imagine another farmer considering that actively being a "farmer." I'm fairly certain Jimmy Carter wouldn't.

Reposted by Peter Bergman

Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 15d

It's because, the good folk at bookshop.org have now made it possible for you to buy ebooks from them.

And a slice of the profits from every purchase you make with them goes towards indie bookshops, meaning they are one step closer to buying a rocket, renting Venice, or just paying the rent. 5/?

a woman is sitting in front of a laptop with #schitts creek written on the bottom

Alt: a woman is sitting in front of a laptop with #schitts creek written on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17d

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

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