Benjamin Manning
@benjaminsmanning.bsky.social
PhD student @MIT | Economics. AI Agents, & Scientific Discovery | Techno-optimistic-ish | https://benjaminmanning.io/
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🚨New Paper Alert🚨
In a megastudy w/ 140k U.S. teachers on Zearn we tested 15 email campaigns nudging teachers to help their elementary school students progress in math. Our emails boosted math progress slightly (by 1.9%). Personalization added value. Led by A Duckworth.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In a megastudy w/ 140k U.S. teachers on Zearn we tested 15 email campaigns nudging teachers to help their elementary school students progress in math. Our emails boosted math progress slightly (by 1.9%). Personalization added value. Led by A Duckworth.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
March 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
🚨New Paper Alert🚨
In a megastudy w/ 140k U.S. teachers on Zearn we tested 15 email campaigns nudging teachers to help their elementary school students progress in math. Our emails boosted math progress slightly (by 1.9%). Personalization added value. Led by A Duckworth.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In a megastudy w/ 140k U.S. teachers on Zearn we tested 15 email campaigns nudging teachers to help their elementary school students progress in math. Our emails boosted math progress slightly (by 1.9%). Personalization added value. Led by A Duckworth.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Benjamin Manning
🚨 New paper alert, with @johnjhorton.bsky.social! Using an experiment run on a large online labor market, we provide evidence that providing employers access to an AI-written first draft of a job post harms the efficiency of the market.
emmawiles.github.io/storage/jobo...
emmawiles.github.io/storage/jobo...
March 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🚨 New paper alert, with @johnjhorton.bsky.social! Using an experiment run on a large online labor market, we provide evidence that providing employers access to an AI-written first draft of a job post harms the efficiency of the market.
emmawiles.github.io/storage/jobo...
emmawiles.github.io/storage/jobo...
Reposted by Benjamin Manning
After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics
We use a rigorous three-stage many-analysts design to assess how different researcher decisions—specifically data cleaning, research design, and the interpretat
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February 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....