Dynamic Persuasion: Decay and Accumulation of Partisan Media Persuasion
Both academic researchers and political pundits have warned about the cumulative effects of partisan media over time.
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Auditing large language models for race & gender disparities: Implications for artificial intelligence-based hiring
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), including large language models (LLMs) with abilities that rival those of human experts on a wide array of tasks, are reshaping how people make importan
Digital phenotyping in bipolar disorder: Using longitudinal Fitbit data and personalized machine learning to predict mood symptomatology
Background: Effective treatment of bipolar disorder (BD) requires prompt response to mood episodes.
The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
In the World Bank Enterprise Survey, the share of entrepreneurs who are women first rises and then falls with national income, which reverses the well-known U-shaped relationship between female labor
Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone? Changes in the Geography of Work in the US, 1980-2021
We examine changes in the spatial distribution of good jobs across US commuting zones over 1980-2000 and 2000-2021.
Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube
An enormous body of literature argues that recommendation algorithms drive political polarization by creating "filter bubbles" and "rabbit holes." Using four experiments with nearly 9,000 participants
De facto Openness to Immigration
Various factors influence why some countries are more open to immigration than others. Policy is only one of them.
Learning not cheating: AI assistance can enhance rather than hinder skill development
It is widely believed that outsourcing cognitive work to AI boosts immediate productivity at the expense of long-term human capital development.
Yes, America Is Europe’s Enemy Now
The Trump administration has gone way past revising the transatlantic alliance.
Building Capacity to Adapt Development Pathways to Protect Human Well-being in the Face of Shocks: Lessons from scholarship and practice
Central to the pursuit of sustainability is the ability of actors to navigate disruptive change so that they can survive long enough to transition to more equitable development pathways in the future
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