Emma Wiles
@emmawiles.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. Boston University. Formerly MIT Sloan. AI in labor markets, digital platforms, a secret third thing (min*m*m w*ge.) Other interests: diabetes, musicals, and the premier league.
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Emma Wiles
@emmawiles.bsky.social
· Mar 24
🚨 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...
Im an AP at a business school and have work a blazer and slacks every single class I’ve ever taught. however Halloween falls on one of my teaching days this year, it ok to wear a costume to teach on Halloween?
October 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Im an AP at a business school and have work a blazer and slacks every single class I’ve ever taught. however Halloween falls on one of my teaching days this year, it ok to wear a costume to teach on Halloween?
Could anyone who teaches a PhD level management seminar (I’m thinking core theoretical frameworks) in a business school share their syllabus with me?
October 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Could anyone who teaches a PhD level management seminar (I’m thinking core theoretical frameworks) in a business school share their syllabus with me?
How many times is too many times for me to bring up the new Taylor Swift album at today’s faculty meeting?
October 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
How many times is too many times for me to bring up the new Taylor Swift album at today’s faculty meeting?
Asked my teenage babysitter who just started vet school to ID a tick. Without blinking, he took a photo and uploaded it to ChatGPT.
The Youths are using AI with the same reflex my generation had for googling or watching youtube tutorials.
The Youths are using AI with the same reflex my generation had for googling or watching youtube tutorials.
June 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Asked my teenage babysitter who just started vet school to ID a tick. Without blinking, he took a photo and uploaded it to ChatGPT.
The Youths are using AI with the same reflex my generation had for googling or watching youtube tutorials.
The Youths are using AI with the same reflex my generation had for googling or watching youtube tutorials.
There are about 100 dynamic constraints that need to be satisfied for my newborn to sleep.
If this is representative, I do not see how the human race is still alive
If this is representative, I do not see how the human race is still alive
June 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
There are about 100 dynamic constraints that need to be satisfied for my newborn to sleep.
If this is representative, I do not see how the human race is still alive
If this is representative, I do not see how the human race is still alive
Rough day for those of who work with large companies to study the effects of AI
May 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Rough day for those of who work with large companies to study the effects of AI
Huge day for me, frankly
May 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Huge day for me, frankly
Reposted by Emma Wiles
Lots of people dunk on this, but replace dolls with medical equipment or any number of food items and it's less funny.
Trump: "I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls ... they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."
May 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Lots of people dunk on this, but replace dolls with medical equipment or any number of food items and it's less funny.
Happy to announce that @edwardwiles.bsky.social and I have a new addition to the family! Welcome to the world, Penelope!
April 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Happy to announce that @edwardwiles.bsky.social and I have a new addition to the family! Welcome to the world, Penelope!
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Trump has perfected the art of Pareto Worsening, a change in allocation making at least one person worse off without making a single person better off.
Trade war, Medicaid cuts, science cuts, there are no winners here, only losers.
Trade war, Medicaid cuts, science cuts, there are no winners here, only losers.
April 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Trump has perfected the art of Pareto Worsening, a change in allocation making at least one person worse off without making a single person better off.
Trade war, Medicaid cuts, science cuts, there are no winners here, only losers.
Trade war, Medicaid cuts, science cuts, there are no winners here, only losers.
New office decorations just dropped
April 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New office decorations just dropped
Reposted by Emma Wiles
Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one
April 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one
👏 come on universities, let’s see more of this. Conceding has gotten Columbia jack s***, let’s stand up to the bully together
Relatedly: University President Christopher Eisgruber signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government in an interview with Bloomberg after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the University’s research grants.
In Bloomberg interview, Eisgruber signals that Princeton will not make concessions
University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the U...
www.dailyprincetonian.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
👏 come on universities, let’s see more of this. Conceding has gotten Columbia jack s***, let’s stand up to the bully together
Reposted by Emma Wiles
Relatedly: University President Christopher Eisgruber signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government in an interview with Bloomberg after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the University’s research grants.
In Bloomberg interview, Eisgruber signals that Princeton will not make concessions
University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the U...
www.dailyprincetonian.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Relatedly: University President Christopher Eisgruber signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government in an interview with Bloomberg after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the University’s research grants.
🚨 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...
Economists- what’s the norm for cover letters for journal submissions? Yay? Nay? Yay, but they don’t matter? what’s the deal.
March 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Economists- what’s the norm for cover letters for journal submissions? Yay? Nay? Yay, but they don’t matter? what’s the deal.
This breaks my heart. This research project has been going on for 30 years and studying the long term effects of Type 2 Diabetes (a condition which >10% Americans have) and the effectiveness of various interventions. All because the the funding goes through Columbia on the way to the orgs running it
Top Societies Decry Trump's Funding Cuts to Landmark Diabetes Study www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/...
Top Societies Decry Trump's Funding Cuts to Landmark Diabetes Study
Three decades-long study had government funding pulled last week
www.medpagetoday.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This breaks my heart. This research project has been going on for 30 years and studying the long term effects of Type 2 Diabetes (a condition which >10% Americans have) and the effectiveness of various interventions. All because the the funding goes through Columbia on the way to the orgs running it
Reposted by Emma Wiles
In addition to being morally wrong this is also just plain old wrong as shown by research by @kevinshih.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
In addition to being morally wrong this is also just plain old wrong as shown by research by @kevinshih.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Is there anything vaguely coordinated we (ex. faculty) can do to try to convince our universities president & administrations to take a hard stance on the side of academic freedom, free speech, and against Trump?
"Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'"
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Universities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scope
Some of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest institutions are swiftly bending to President Donald Trump, who is acting on longstanding conservative criticisms of universities as elitist and progressive.
www.politico.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Is there anything vaguely coordinated we (ex. faculty) can do to try to convince our universities president & administrations to take a hard stance on the side of academic freedom, free speech, and against Trump?
Happy St Patrick’s Day from a Dropkick Murphy’s concert at Fenway! <- Most Bostonian sentence of all time
March 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Happy St Patrick’s Day from a Dropkick Murphy’s concert at Fenway! <- Most Bostonian sentence of all time
My husband asked for help on this section of the crossword where something was clearly wrong.
On this clue he had put ELLA and said to me, his beloved wife EMMA, “Not sure about ELLA. I’m sure about the E & the A, but I can’t think of any other names that take the form E __ __ A.”
On this clue he had put ELLA and said to me, his beloved wife EMMA, “Not sure about ELLA. I’m sure about the E & the A, but I can’t think of any other names that take the form E __ __ A.”
February 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
My husband asked for help on this section of the crossword where something was clearly wrong.
On this clue he had put ELLA and said to me, his beloved wife EMMA, “Not sure about ELLA. I’m sure about the E & the A, but I can’t think of any other names that take the form E __ __ A.”
On this clue he had put ELLA and said to me, his beloved wife EMMA, “Not sure about ELLA. I’m sure about the E & the A, but I can’t think of any other names that take the form E __ __ A.”
New collective noun for economists just dropped
February 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New collective noun for economists just dropped
This bar seems...so high right now
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” ―Maya Angelou
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This bar seems...so high right now
Just called a nail salon to make an appt for manipedis this weekend. Scrolled through instagram while making the appt, was giving the conversation about 20% of my attention, ended it by saying "Love you, bye!"
It's not the worst thing that happened this week, but for me personally it's up there
It's not the worst thing that happened this week, but for me personally it's up there
February 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Just called a nail salon to make an appt for manipedis this weekend. Scrolled through instagram while making the appt, was giving the conversation about 20% of my attention, ended it by saying "Love you, bye!"
It's not the worst thing that happened this week, but for me personally it's up there
It's not the worst thing that happened this week, but for me personally it's up there