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Can AI agents read a social science paper and write the code from scratch to reproduce its results?
No access to original code. Just text + data.
New paper with Ben Kohler, @david_rzs, @__jae_1, and @miserlis_
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Elliott Ash
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Elliott Ash
@ellliottt
- Evidence supports this policy. When state supreme courts introduced mandatory retirement (age-based term limits) in recent decades, performance of the court (quantity and quality of rulings) went up. Paper link: elliottash.com/wp-content/upl… and coming soon to @AEAjournals Policy
Nearly 70% of Americans support term limits for justices on the Supreme Court. I have a bill doing just that. Let's pass it. - Recently posted at @cepr_org: "Text Algorithms in Economics" with @StephenEKHansen (forthcoming in ARE @AnnualReviews). Ungated version: elliottash.com/wp-content/upl… Companion code notebooks: github.com/sekhansen/text… & now a 🧵 on the highlights...
New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP18125 Text Algorithms in Economics Elliott Ash @ellliottt @eth_cle @ETH @ETH_en Stephen Hansen @StephenEKHansen @EconUCL @ucl ow.ly/m7W750Oh37P #CEPR_OE, #CEPR_PoE - Thanks all, it was a team effort 💪🫶In its meeting on December 6/7, the ETH Board @ETH_Rat formally granted tenure to Elliott Ash @ellliottt @ETH_en. We are proud to have Elliott and his entire team @eth_cle. Please join us in congratulating Elliott on this well-deserved achievement! 🎆🎆 ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…
- Thanks to @DAcemogluMIT for the shoutout on the paper with @rodrikdani and Sharun: elliottash.com/wp-content/upl… Some more evidence on the power of ideas: elliottash.com/wp-content/upl…
Replying to @DAcemogluMITAn intriguing paper by Elliott Ash, Sharun Mukand and @danilaserra_eco uses data on political ads to show that “idea-based” politics (e.g., identity politics) becomes more important following negative economic shocks, such as surgeon imports from China: nber.org/papers/w29474 - Now forthcoming at JPE! Newest version:Counterpoint: complex laws may actually be better laws. More elaborate state laws boost economic growth. Why? They mean more careful consideration & rules for key edge cases, rather than writing shorter, but broader, laws that lump everything together. research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/hand…
- Now hiring: Predoc positions in AI+Economics at @ETH_en Zurich -- work on exciting projects at this new intersection of fields. Submit an application here by Nov 22nd: econjobmarket.org/positions/9714 Also reviewing applications for PhD students and postdocs. @econ_ra
AI+Econ = 🤩 The 2nd AI+Econ workshop was a smashing success. Thanks to all the presenters, discussants, and others who made it happen! See you next year for round 3 - Call for Papers: The 4th Annual Zurich Workshop in AI+Economics to be held Dec 5-6, 2025, hosted by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich. illuminating keynote to be given by @testingham (OpenAI) organized with @sergallet @YanagizawaD @joachim_voth Info:
- “In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins.” -- Drew Westen, The Political Brain. Interesting idea! What do the data say about that? New working paper: "Emotion and Reason in Political Language", with @gloriagennaro. PDF: bit.ly/gennaro-ash-em…
- Call For Papers: 2nd Zurich Workshop in AI+Economics! 🇨🇭🪚🤖+📈 Conf: Sept 29th-30th in Zurich Papers due: May 10th Keynote by @m_sendhil 👀 Submit here: forms.gle/kQqxeYZidDpwQ4… Details: eash.cc/AI-econ-2023 co-organized with @sergallet @YanagizawaD @eth_cle @econ_uzh
- For organizational economists who might have a new interest in Zurich, we are hiring at @ETH_en in org econ. 🚨 Applications due in 4 days (Oct 15th) ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zur…I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ_uzh at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7
- Nice writeup in the Economist about the history of law and economics, including a discussion of our paper "Ideas have Consequences". Paper link: elliottash.com/wp-content/upl…
The “law-and-economics” movement made the courts more reasoned and rigorous. It also changed the verdicts that judges handed out econ.st/3sFiPzs - With @sergallet, Dominik Hangartner, Yotam Margalit, and @matteopins, our new working paper presents more compelling evidence on how @FoxNews sowed skepticism and slowed responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… (thread)
Analysis: New research explores how conservative media misinformation may have intensified the severity of the pandemic wapo.st/3eAPjiv - Looking forward to this panel! Presenting joint work on ideas vs. interests in politics with S. Mukand & @rodrikdani. Worth getting up early for 🌞 🧵
Attending ASSA next weekend? Join us for an **amazing** ASREC session this Friday at 8am Presentations by @DrDaronAcemoglu, Paola Giuliano & @ellliottt. Discussants Raquel Fernandez, @leah_boustan & @Erzo_FP For more: aeaweb.org/conference/202…
