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Bear with me while I do something petty about pointing out academic priority in an area. If you don't care about this, skip 1/
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Alex Mas
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Alex Mas
@AMLabEcon
Professor at UC Berkeley. Labor economics.
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I agree with this take. Time for UC to reconsider the choice not to use SAT and ACT. Contributor: UC should go back to considering standardized tests in admissions - Los Angeles Times share.google/4gp886pHsOyecX…
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The UCs should bring back standardized testing.
Patrick Collison@patrickc
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu… UCSD report: "At our campus, the picture is truly troubling. Between 2020 and 2025, the number of freshmen whose math placement exam results indicate they do not meet middle school[!] standards grew nearly thirtyfold, despite almost all of these students having taken beyond the minimum UCOP required math curriculum, and many with high grades."
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Excited to announce that with Emmanuel Saez we are making our working hours database publicly available. It covers hours worked in 160 countries, including long time series in 87 countries. Hope it can be useful for research and feedback welcome! 👇
🔗amory-gethin.fr/data.html
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What happens when online job applicants start using LLMs? It ain't good.
1. Pre-LLM, cover letter quality predicts your work quality, and a good cover gets you a job
2. LLMs wipe out the signal, and employer demand falls
3. Model suggests high ability workers lose the most
1/n
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Quel plaisir d'avoir pu interroger Philippe sur sa trajectoire intellectuelle pour les pages du @Grand_Continent: un entretien-fleuve à lire!
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/11/02/…
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Unbelievable: the famed Berkeley Math Circle is being forced to shut down due to a bureaucratic requirement where a guest lecturer giving an hour long lesson needs to be officially fingerprinted. How is fingerprinting even still a thing in the 21st century?
Chancellor Lyons @richlyons: can you see the absurdity of the situation and figure out a solution?
dailycal.org/news/campus/ge…
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The first cite takes months/years of work; every cite after that has zero marginal cost (except for some marketing expenses, like this tweet) - congrats @BenSManning !
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Assistant Professor Jonathan Weigel will be honored as the 2025 Philomathia Prize recipient at Philomathia Day on Oct. 15. His research focuses on seeing how a fragile state can build its capacity to better serve its citizens.
Learn more and register: gather.berkeley.edu/event/philomat…
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1/11 🧵Two results discussed in a new VoxEU column: (i) why workers stay even when outside jobs pay more; (ii) what happens when pay is set by individual bargaining. Links below.
sydneec.github.io/Website/CHH_Mo…
sydneec.github.io/Website/CHH_Ba…
VoxEU@voxeu
Information and the labour market Sydnee Caldwell @UCBerkeley, Ingrid Haegele @LMU_Muenchen @ECONMunich, Joerg Heining @iab_news ow.ly/vx2g50WJniT
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Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "The Impact of Unions on the Wage Distribution: Evidence from Higher Education" by Michael Baker, Yosh Halberstam, Kory Kroft, Alexandre Mas, and Derek Messacar. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
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🆕 Chapter of the Handbook of Labor Economics in our Discussion Paper Series: Alexandre Mas reviews the analysis of non-wage amenities in the workplace. rfberlin.com/research/non-w…
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At today's Congressional hearing: the Haas School of Business is “not a hotbed of anything but excellence.”
I think this one will stick.
The Daily Californian@dailycal
DeSaulnier also referenced the chancellor’s background at the Haas School of Business, saying it is “not a hotbed of anything but excellence.” DeSaulnier moved on to applaud UC Berkeley as “the best public university in the country, and probably the world.”
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Berkeley Haas mourns the sudden loss of professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski, passionate teacher and leading marketing scholar.
Read more: newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/berkeley-haas-…
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@lugaricano This is devastating news. Her passing is a huge loss for the entire economics community. My heartfelt condolences to her family, friends, and colleagues.
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Extremely sad news: Ghazala Azmat, an excellent economist and a wonderful person, died last weekend. My sincere condolences to her family, her colleagues at Science Po and CEPR, and the many friends she leaves here at LSE (where she studied) and everywhere she went.
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@SorryToBeKurt I am deeply saddened to see this. I am so sorry for your loss, and the loss to the profession.
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With great sadness, I announce the passing of my co-author and friend, Marcus Hagedorn. His acerbic wit was as sharp as the vision of Toni Kroos. He attacked big research questions like he tackled the mountains of Mallorca on his bike. He will be missed.
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