A Causal Affair
Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamCausal Inference, Coding and Consumer Finance
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AI in journals, conferences, and submissions
I argued in June that the number of economics papers had not exploded following the arrival of AI. Nonetheless, I showed two weeks ago that AI writing (which likely proxies for overall use) has risen sharply to between 25–50% of all working...
Who is rich in America, and why?
There's diamonds in the sidewalk, the gutter’s lined in song
Dear, I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
There's treasure for the taking, for any hard-working man
Who will make his home in the American Land...
How do we know if writing is AI?
It is unsettling to read prose that appears straight from an LLM. Sometimes, it is word-choice — “load-bearing”, “genuinely,” “smoking gun” — sometimes, it is sentence structure — “it’s not X, but Y” — sometimes, it’s formatting — bold area...
Further Readings in Econometrics
As a producer and consumer of applied econometrics, I have the view (supported by some data) that much of econometric work is under-appreciated and under-consumed by applied folks. I think this is not applied folks fault — there is a broad...
Using AI in Research
I was fortunate to be asked by the NBER Household Finance organizers this summer to give a 75 minute talk on using AI in research. I gave the talk last week.
It’s sort of a “best hits” of my thoughts that I’ve accumulated since my talks wi...
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Associate Professor of Finance at Yale School of Management I study consumer finance and applied econometrics is a big part of my research identity.
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