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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 1d

🪅 congrats, chad!🪅

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, Yuriy!

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 5d

Take my money

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 4d

Air-gapped from our overlords 😉

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 5d

🪅📕 The first paper copy has arrived! 📕🪅

#themeansofprediction

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 12d

Reading rec:
"Challenges in Statistics: A Dozen Challenges in Causality and Causal Inference"
arxiv.org/abs/2508.17099

Great overview of both the state of the art and open question in causal inference!

Challenges in Statistics: A Dozen Challenges in Causality and Causal Inference

Causality and causal inference have emerged as core research areas at the interface of modern statistics and domains including biomedical sciences, social sciences, computer science, and beyond. The…

arxiv.org

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 16d

Looking forward to this week’s booktalks and discussions!

Sep 23: MIT Knight Science Journalism program
ksj.mit.edu/events/

Sep 24: Harvard Kennedy School (including discussion with Dani Rodrik)
www.hks.harvard.edu/events/book-...

Sep 25: Yale Law School
law.yale.edu/centers-work...

Law, Economics & Organization Workshop

Discover your passion

ksj.mit.edu

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 16d

Looking forward to this week’s booktalks and discussions!

Sep 23: MIT Knight Science Journalism program
ksj.mit.edu/events/

Sep 24: Harvard Kennedy School (including discussion with Dani Rodrik)
www.hks.harvard.edu/events/book-...

Sep 25: Yale Law School
law.yale.edu/centers-work...

Law, Economics & Organization Workshop

Discover your passion

ksj.mit.edu

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 25d

🎪 Official book launch party on Nov 3! 🎪
Presentation, discussion, music, and drinks at Reference.point in London.

Get your free tickets here, to reserve a slot:
www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

cc @UChicagoPress.bsky.social @OxfordEconDept.bsky.social @INETOxford.bsky.social

Book Launch for The Means of Prediction by Maximilian Kasy

Maximilian Kasy in conversation with Noam Yuchtman to launch "The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"

www.eventbrite.com

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 25d

🎪 Official book launch party on Nov 3! 🎪
Presentation, discussion, music, and drinks at Reference.point in London.

Get your free tickets here, to reserve a slot:
www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

cc @UChicagoPress.bsky.social @OxfordEconDept.bsky.social @INETOxford.bsky.social

Book Launch for The Means of Prediction by Maximilian Kasy

Maximilian Kasy in conversation with Noam Yuchtman to launch "The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"

www.eventbrite.com

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Aug 18

📆 Mark your calendars! 📆

With the publication of "Means of prediction" approaching fast, I'm looking forward to an interesting set of panel discussions and book-talks this fall - I hope to see many of you there!

Preliminary schedule of book talks:
maxkasy.github.io/home/present...

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Aug 18

Pre-order book here:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

cc @uchicagopress.bsky.social

The Means of Prediction

An eye-opening examination of how power—not technology—will define life with AI. AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms, job…

press.uchicago.edu

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Aug 18

📆 Mark your calendars! 📆

With the publication of "Means of prediction" approaching fast, I'm looking forward to an interesting set of panel discussions and book-talks this fall - I hope to see many of you there!

Preliminary schedule of book talks:
maxkasy.github.io/home/present...

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Jul 25

Are you on the economics job market this year?
Consider applying for the Nuffield postdoc at Oxford:
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

It's an excellent opportunity for some extra research time in a great environment!
(Econometrics and econ/ML applications particularly encouraged!)

EJM - Econ Job Market

The automated language-translation service on econjobmarlet.org is provided free by Google Translate, a third party service. Google is wholly responsible for the translation service. Econ Job…

econjobmarket.org

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Aug 12

Who controls the means of prediction?
The struggle continues:

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

arstechnica.com

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Aug 8

These life changes are in turn important mediators for the mental health outcomes that we consider. 2/2

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thank you for reading so carefully! re difference to US trials: our best guess is that the German trial had more generous transfers for a longer period (3 years). This enabled recipients to make life changes snd gain agency in a way not seen in the US data. 1/2

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CESifo @cesifo.org · Aug 5

📢New Working Paper!
"Cash Transfers, Mental Health and Agency: Evidence from an RCT in Germany"
✍️ Sandra Bohmann, Susann Fiedler @maxkasy.bsky.social @jpschupp.bsky.social Frederik Schwerte

For further information, read the full paper: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Aug 1

thoughtful assessment of the era of discourse about wokeness:

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Aug 1

My Retrospective on Wokeness in detail! Blogs are for just saying stuff, after all. So here is my attempt to say what was distinctive (if anything) about a recent era of socio-cultural life, what (if anything) changed, and what (if anything) was to the good

sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...

Wokeness: a Retrospective

In recent times my online sphere has had a fair few people make the claim that, in some sense, the culture has moved on from Woke. The d...

sootyempiric.blogspot.com

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Jul 25

Are you on the economics job market this year?
Consider applying for the Nuffield postdoc at Oxford:
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

It's an excellent opportunity for some extra research time in a great environment!
(Econometrics and econ/ML applications particularly encouraged!)

EJM - Econ Job Market

The automated language-translation service on econjobmarlet.org is provided free by Google Translate, a third party service. Google is wholly responsible for the translation service. Econ Job…

econjobmarket.org

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Janet Gornick @janetgornick.bsky.social · Jun 23

Check out new empirical paper on impact of basic income on employment outcomes: "Basic Income and Labor Supply: Evidence from an RCT in Germany". By Sarah Bernhard, Sandra Bohmann, Susann Fiedler, Maximilian Kasy, Jürgen Schupp, Frederik Schwerter. @maxkasy.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social
👇👇👇

Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · Jun 23

Would a basic income reduce tax revenue by decreasing labor supply - or put pressure on wages by increasing labor supply? A field experiment by Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @maxkasy.bsky.social‬ & his coauthors concludes: Neither.

stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/research/bas...

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Jul 4

@oxfordecondept.bsky.social's Prof Maximilian Kasy explains why the political focus should be on creating a truly comprehensive safety net for all, rather than undermining the existing system in the name of austerity.

Read more ⬇️

Expert Comment: What is the future of the British welfare system? |

A heated debate is under way about the future of the British welfare system. Should the UK cut welfare benefits for the people with disabilities and for those out of work, thereby increasing poverty,

www.ox.ac.uk

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Jul 11

Oops, attached the wrong abstract. Here is the correct one!

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Jul 11

🧨 New draft dropped:🧨
"Cash Transfers,
Mental Health and Agency:
Evidence from an RCT in Germany"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...

Companion paper to our paper on basic income and labor supply.
Corresponding author Freddie Schwerter (@freddieschwerter.bsky.social).
#basicincome #UBI

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Jul 9

The exponential growth of solar power - some good news for a change:

The Sun Has Its Moment www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

www.newyorker.com

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