Dimitrios Diamantaras
@ddiamantaras.bsky.social
Economics Professor at Temple University, Philadelphia. Amateur photographer and singer (classical style, bass). Also on Mastodon at @Dimitrios_Diamantaras@sciences.social
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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Canadian crime is something else
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Canadian crime is something else
Visible with the naked eye Aurora in Abington, PA. Iphone 16 pro, 3 second exposure exposure, no further processing
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Visible with the naked eye Aurora in Abington, PA. Iphone 16 pro, 3 second exposure exposure, no further processing
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The impact of AI on workers depends critically on whether the AI-seller has market power. A monopoly seller of AI services causes significant harm to an economy, from Susan Athey and Fiona Scott Morton www.nber.org/papers/w34444
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The impact of AI on workers depends critically on whether the AI-seller has market power. A monopoly seller of AI services causes significant harm to an economy, from Susan Athey and Fiona Scott Morton www.nber.org/papers/w34444
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This is very funny; China's AI systems had huge returns on investing in crypto. The U.S. systems had losses. thechinaacademy.org/china-us-ai-... The idea of seeing the Wall Street jerks and crypto bros wiped out by Chinese AI is pretty delicious.
First China-US AI Crypto Trading Showdown: Qwen3 Max First, DeepSeek Chat V3.1 Second, GPT‑5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Grok 4 Wiped Out
China’s AI large model Qwen achieved a return of 22.32%, while DeepSeek followed closely with a 4.89% return.
thechinaacademy.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This is very funny; China's AI systems had huge returns on investing in crypto. The U.S. systems had losses. thechinaacademy.org/china-us-ai-... The idea of seeing the Wall Street jerks and crypto bros wiped out by Chinese AI is pretty delicious.
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🧵There's this phenomenon you sometimes see in certain corners of science where a small group of researchers all work on the same narrow topic and mostly just talk to each other. It becomes a really insular community: everyone cites everyone else, ... 1/5
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🧵There's this phenomenon you sometimes see in certain corners of science where a small group of researchers all work on the same narrow topic and mostly just talk to each other. It becomes a really insular community: everyone cites everyone else, ... 1/5
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Not a word about the most effective way to avoid contracting airborne infections, wearing a mask
Gift link if you still want to read the article: www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...
Gift link if you still want to read the article: www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Not a word about the most effective way to avoid contracting airborne infections, wearing a mask
Gift link if you still want to read the article: www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...
Gift link if you still want to read the article: www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...
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New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky
November 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky
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Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
Economics Literature Search
Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.
paulgp.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
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A bellwether of the wreckage that will be caused by the catastrophic assault on science in the U.S.
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A bellwether of the wreckage that will be caused by the catastrophic assault on science in the U.S.
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What a great day: legends of innovation economics Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt win the Nobel. Joel was a PhD advisor of mine, so need a full article! Included: good & bad explanations of the Indus Rev, Aghion's charisma, influence of Jon Hughes, French fashion houses: kevinbryanecon.com/mokyraghionh...
A Nobel for Innovation: Mokyr, Aghion, and Howitt
kevinbryanecon.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
What a great day: legends of innovation economics Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt win the Nobel. Joel was a PhD advisor of mine, so need a full article! Included: good & bad explanations of the Indus Rev, Aghion's charisma, influence of Jon Hughes, French fashion houses: kevinbryanecon.com/mokyraghionh...
Congratulations to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for the recognition by the Nobel committee of their foundational studies of economic growth based on sustained innovation!
October 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Congratulations to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for the recognition by the Nobel committee of their foundational studies of economic growth based on sustained innovation!
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Co-director @dacemoglumit.bsky.social participated in yesterday's United Nations dialogue session on AI, highlighted in @nytimes.com. Daron stressed that the current path of AI, which emphasizes automation, could lead to greater inequality.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
Countries Consider A.I.’s Dangers and Benefits at U.N.
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Co-director @dacemoglumit.bsky.social participated in yesterday's United Nations dialogue session on AI, highlighted in @nytimes.com. Daron stressed that the current path of AI, which emphasizes automation, could lead to greater inequality.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
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Hey, so I'm doing this thing next week, and it's a pilot for what I'm hoping will be a regular thing, and I'm really excited about it, and I do hope you'll join us.
Signup here: myumi.ch/G2dZ7
Signup here: myumi.ch/G2dZ7
September 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Hey, so I'm doing this thing next week, and it's a pilot for what I'm hoping will be a regular thing, and I'm really excited about it, and I do hope you'll join us.
Signup here: myumi.ch/G2dZ7
Signup here: myumi.ch/G2dZ7
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My book, a labor of love, with 15 years of my own research and the stories of countless women, is out today!! I document why women's time has gotten so squeezed, and then provide actionable, evidence-based strategies on what we can do about it! So many people on here did the research in the book! 🙏
September 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
My book, a labor of love, with 15 years of my own research and the stories of countless women, is out today!! I document why women's time has gotten so squeezed, and then provide actionable, evidence-based strategies on what we can do about it! So many people on here did the research in the book! 🙏
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"How much of the inequality we observe today can be predicted by inherited circumstances?”
This week on the podcast, Steven Durlauf is joined by Francisco Ferreira to explore how inherited inequality unfolds across countries and regions.
🎧 Hear the full conversation bit.ly/45XLHnV
This week on the podcast, Steven Durlauf is joined by Francisco Ferreira to explore how inherited inequality unfolds across countries and regions.
🎧 Hear the full conversation bit.ly/45XLHnV
September 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"How much of the inequality we observe today can be predicted by inherited circumstances?”
This week on the podcast, Steven Durlauf is joined by Francisco Ferreira to explore how inherited inequality unfolds across countries and regions.
🎧 Hear the full conversation bit.ly/45XLHnV
This week on the podcast, Steven Durlauf is joined by Francisco Ferreira to explore how inherited inequality unfolds across countries and regions.
🎧 Hear the full conversation bit.ly/45XLHnV
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📚 The new school year is starting in many places. If you’re a teacher, student, or parent, here are a few ways Our World in Data might be useful to you right now 🧵
Our work is used in classrooms around the world — from top universities to local schools.
Our work is used in classrooms around the world — from top universities to local schools.
September 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
📚 The new school year is starting in many places. If you’re a teacher, student, or parent, here are a few ways Our World in Data might be useful to you right now 🧵
Our work is used in classrooms around the world — from top universities to local schools.
Our work is used in classrooms around the world — from top universities to local schools.
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Au revoir👋
Chute de François Bayrou...
Les députés sont votés contre la confiance 364 et pour 194.
Chute de François Bayrou...
Les députés sont votés contre la confiance 364 et pour 194.
September 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Au revoir👋
Chute de François Bayrou...
Les députés sont votés contre la confiance 364 et pour 194.
Chute de François Bayrou...
Les députés sont votés contre la confiance 364 et pour 194.
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Today's ChatGPT use case: give it Stata code and have it draft a methodology section based on it. A straightforward yet somewhat time-consuming task to do manually.
Bonus: if the writeup doesn't match what you THINK you did, it may be due to an error in your code that you didn't catch.
#EconSky
Bonus: if the writeup doesn't match what you THINK you did, it may be due to an error in your code that you didn't catch.
#EconSky
September 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Today's ChatGPT use case: give it Stata code and have it draft a methodology section based on it. A straightforward yet somewhat time-consuming task to do manually.
Bonus: if the writeup doesn't match what you THINK you did, it may be due to an error in your code that you didn't catch.
#EconSky
Bonus: if the writeup doesn't match what you THINK you did, it may be due to an error in your code that you didn't catch.
#EconSky
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Instagram on iPad opens on Reels, not on the regular photographic feed
And of course, there is no way to change this behaviour
This is both not surprising in the slightest, and yet another example of a giant social media corporation forcing the hands of its users
And of course, there is no way to change this behaviour
This is both not surprising in the slightest, and yet another example of a giant social media corporation forcing the hands of its users
September 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Instagram on iPad opens on Reels, not on the regular photographic feed
And of course, there is no way to change this behaviour
This is both not surprising in the slightest, and yet another example of a giant social media corporation forcing the hands of its users
And of course, there is no way to change this behaviour
This is both not surprising in the slightest, and yet another example of a giant social media corporation forcing the hands of its users
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Sorry for the miserable post.
September 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Sorry for the miserable post.
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1/Very pleased to release this paper which provides a very flexible methodology for estimation of Markov transition matrices linking parents to children, joint with my brilliant coauthors Yoosoon Chang, Bo Hu, and Joon Park.
Providing a general framework for understanding how trajectories of family income and family structure affect adult outcomes, from Yoosoon Chang, Steven N. Durlauf, Bo Hu, and Joon Park https://www.nber.org/papers/w34179
September 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
1/Very pleased to release this paper which provides a very flexible methodology for estimation of Markov transition matrices linking parents to children, joint with my brilliant coauthors Yoosoon Chang, Bo Hu, and Joon Park.