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NBER @nber.org · Aug 19

Details on how to access anonymized data from the Creative Destruction Lab, including a description of dataset construction and included variables, from Amir Sariri, Evgenia Gatov, Geneva Neal, Kyle Robinson, Sonia Sennik, Wei Yang Tham, Michael Vertolli, and Av... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34127

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Avi Goldfarb @avigoldfarb.bsky.social · Jul 14

The Economics of Bicycles for the Mind. Working paper with @joshgans.bsky.social and Ajay Agrawal. A bicycle amplifies human locomotion. Computers & AI amplify human intelligence. We model cognitive tools, showing when they affect productivity, inequality, & teams. www.nber.org/papers/w34034

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Avi Goldfarb @avigoldfarb.bsky.social · Jul 3

We find (1) personally receiving a false positive leads to a persistent decline in screening, (2) exposure to false positives through a co-worker decreases screening, (3) these effects are mitigated in workplaces that had recently experienced true positives. (2/2)

When Good Products Fail: How False Positives Affect Usage of Novel Screening Technologies

<p><span>We examine how idiosyncratic product failures in the form of false positive results affect the usage of novel screening technologies, both through dire

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Avi Goldfarb @avigoldfarb.bsky.social · Jul 3

What happens when good products fail? Dinara Akchurina and I have a new paper looking at false positives in COVID rapid tests. Details here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... (1/2)

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Rotman School of Management @rotmanschool.bsky.social · Jun 27

AI Can Strengthen Canada’s Economy — If We Let It - @avigoldfarb.bsky.social joined the Canada’s Economy, Explained podcast from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce chamber.ca/ai-can-stren...

AI Can Strengthen Canada's Economy — If We Let It - Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Avi Goldfarb joins host Marwa Abdou to explain why Canada’s early leadership in research hasn’t led to widespread adoption.

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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · Jun 2

Mike Scherer, a leader in industrial organization economics, in the study of innovation, and in many other topics since the 1960s, has died at 92. Strikingly eclectic, he wrote (inter alia) about weapons procurement and the commercialization of classical music. More than anything /1

Cover of "Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance"

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · Jun 2

Our work now published showing how better AI can improve both accuracy and diversity in hiring relative to supervised learning tools and status-quo human hiring.

The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · Jun 2

Li, @lindseyraymond.bsky.social & @peterbergman.bsky.social show that incorporating exploration into an interview screening algorithm improves demographic diversity & hiring efficiency, while traditional supervised learning-only tools improve hiring rates at the expense of minority applicants.

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