Ben Davies
@bldavies.bsky.social
Econ PhD candidate at Stanford
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🚨 new working paper with Aakaash Rao (his JMP!)
Why has American politics become engulfed by a "culture war" in recent decades? We trace the culture war back to changes in the media environment in the 1980s/1990s and to the distinctive economic incentives of viewership-maximizing news outlets
Why has American politics become engulfed by a "culture war" in recent decades? We trace the culture war back to changes in the media environment in the 1980s/1990s and to the distinctive economic incentives of viewership-maximizing news outlets
November 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
🚨 new working paper with Aakaash Rao (his JMP!)
Why has American politics become engulfed by a "culture war" in recent decades? We trace the culture war back to changes in the media environment in the 1980s/1990s and to the distinctive economic incentives of viewership-maximizing news outlets
Why has American politics become engulfed by a "culture war" in recent decades? We trace the culture war back to changes in the media environment in the 1980s/1990s and to the distinctive economic incentives of viewership-maximizing news outlets
Anirudh Sankar and I have a new paper on "the value of conceptual knowledge." It explains how mental models help people collect and interpret data.
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The value of conceptual knowledge
We formalize what it means to have conceptual knowledge about a statistical decision-making environment. Such knowledge tells agents about the structural relationships among unknown, payoff-relevant s...
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September 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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September 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Why is it so hard to show that people can be better decision-makers than statistical models?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/18/d...
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Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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April 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Why is it so hard to show that people can be better decision-makers than statistical models?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/18/d...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/18/d...
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Introducing the Stripe Economics of AI Fellowship:
The economics of AI remains surprisingly understudied. The fellowship aims to help fill that gap, by supporting grad students and early-career researchers with $, data, a conference, and community –
The economics of AI remains surprisingly understudied. The fellowship aims to help fill that gap, by supporting grad students and early-career researchers with $, data, a conference, and community –
March 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Introducing the Stripe Economics of AI Fellowship:
The economics of AI remains surprisingly understudied. The fellowship aims to help fill that gap, by supporting grad students and early-career researchers with $, data, a conference, and community –
The economics of AI remains surprisingly understudied. The fellowship aims to help fill that gap, by supporting grad students and early-career researchers with $, data, a conference, and community –
Excited to see one of my favorite papers printed in @ecmaeditors.bsky.social. Congrats @ccrnhl.bsky.social and @jsndr.bsky.social!
A Quest for Knowledge - The Econometric Society
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March 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Excited to see one of my favorite papers printed in @ecmaeditors.bsky.social. Congrats @ccrnhl.bsky.social and @jsndr.bsky.social!
I'm a huge fan of @ccrnhl.bsky.social and @jsndr.bsky.social's work on research incentives, which @joshgans.bsky.social just extended to include AI tools. Here's a quick summary:
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#econsky
Research incentives and artificial intelligence
I discuss Carnehl and Schneider (2025) and Gans (2025), who study the evolution of knowledge and the impact of AI.
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March 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I'm a huge fan of @ccrnhl.bsky.social and @jsndr.bsky.social's work on research incentives, which @joshgans.bsky.social just extended to include AI tools. Here's a quick summary:
#econsky
#econsky
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AI that empowers decision-makers to utilize knowledge will encourage scientists to pursue more novel research questions, from @joshgans.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w33566
March 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
AI that empowers decision-makers to utilize knowledge will encourage scientists to pursue more novel research questions, from @joshgans.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w33566
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I used AI to help write a paper and got it published. All in record time. What does this mean for research? My latest post. open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...
What will AI do to (p)research?
AI makes doing and communicating research much easier. Will there be any point to it?
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February 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I used AI to help write a paper and got it published. All in record time. What does this mean for research? My latest post. open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...
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Why fund highly novel research? It can improve the evolution of knowledge by guiding future researchers. We propose a model in which researchers decide which questions to address and at what intensity to search for the answer based on existing knowledge. https://buff.ly/3Pxv5uk
January 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Why fund highly novel research? It can improve the evolution of knowledge by guiding future researchers. We propose a model in which researchers decide which questions to address and at what intensity to search for the answer based on existing knowledge. https://buff.ly/3Pxv5uk
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PLEASE RT :)
Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics
Deadline Jan 30 (soon!)
Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford
Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics
Deadline Jan 30 (soon!)
Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford
January 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
PLEASE RT :)
Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics
Deadline Jan 30 (soon!)
Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford
Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics
Deadline Jan 30 (soon!)
Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford