Non-stop

Wow!

Check out this cool working paper.

"War Causes Religiosity"

The authors scraped web images of hundreds of thousands of gravestones of deceased Americans.

They found that people who were randomly drafted into war are at least 20% more likely to have religious gravestones.

Co-director @dacemoglumit.bsky.social argues that the rush toward achieving artificial general intelligence is a race in the wrong direction.

"We should be using AI to make human talent more productive, more amplified, more valuable, more empowered, rather than trying to sideline it."

Turkish democracy was ailing even before the main contender for challenging (and perhaps winning against) President Erdoğan, the Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was arrested last week on charges that many are arguing to be trumped up.

Stricter environmental regulations on US ship exhaust significantly improved the health of newborn babies near coastal areas, say researchers at UC Davis and Vanderbilt. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

I was interviewed by Ruveyda Gozen (and John Van Reenen) on the LSE Innovation and Diffusion Podcast about Religion, Economic Growth, and the Protestant Ethic 👇

youtu.be/04Jzh9M2gpo?...

Return innovation: The knowledge spillovers of the British migration to the United States, 1870-1940

By Davide M. Coluccia and Gaia Dossi

Read at: ow.ly/okn150UOFWp

🚨New dataset alert 🚨

In collaboration with a stellar team at Banxico, Harvard, the World Bank, and ITAM, we built a dataset of demographics and labor market variables at the local-labor-market level for Mexico!
Download here:
www.banxico.org.mx/DataSetsWeb/...
#EconSky #Mexico

The German Hansa – prototype EU or cartellistic crocodile? Find out more on BBC HistoryExtra: podcasts.apple.com/ee/podcast/t... For anyone who can’t resist a shadowy medieval economic institution. @historyextra.bsky.social

Absolute 🔥 start to this year's virtual HPE workshop! @jannetukiainen.bsky.social is presenting a paper titled "Candidate Exit and Voter Loyalty During Early Democratization" on Thursday. Toke Aidt (Cambridge) will discuss. Send me a message if you're not on our list but would like to be!

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨

w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social

Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading!

We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions.

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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

Research in Indonesia shows that elevated night-time temperatures disturb sleep, hinder cognitive performance and increase impatience and irrational behaviour.

These effects disproportionately impact vulnerable populations.