AI & economics. Professor at the Department of Economics @NHHEcon
Mar 13 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
OpenAI has launched Operator, an agent that can perform tasks in your browser. I asked it to complete a Qualtrics survey I created. The results are very promising for Operator but *very* concerning for survey researchers
On the first question, I included a standard attention check. It had no problem picking the top and bottom options. It didn't even bother asking me for help on this.
Oct 29, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Some LaTeX tips for beginners (and not-so-beginners)
Create a file called preamble.tex to store all your packages and settings and keep the main file tidy. In main.tex, add \input{preamble.tex}
Mar 4, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Ph.D. students in economics: How to organize your projects and not make the replication files a huge pain - a thread with a minimal working example with some potential extensions.
First, create four folders: one for raw data (csv files), one for code (your do files), one for data (your cleaned files), and one for documentation (e.g. qsv files for Qualtrics)
May 28, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1/ People often say that null results are penalized in the publication process. Is that true? In a new paper with @cp_roth, @FelixChopra, and Andreas Stegmann, we examine whether and why that's the case! Read on to learn more! 2/ We recruit a sample of more than 500 economists and ask them to evaluate different hypothetical research studies. We vary whether a given study had a large and statistically significant main effect or a low and not statistically significant main effect.