Amalia Di Girolamo
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@ami_digi
Behavioural and Experimental Economist, Assistant Professor @unibirmingham. Research Interest in Education, Cognition, Gender and Risk.
What are the effects of large human-capital shocks on innovation? In a new paper, we study how WWI military deaths across British communities affected local invention over the next decades. We find that places that lost more young men became persistently less innovative. (🧵1/11)
Next Monday, 3/16, @Wharton @Penn @BehaviorChange will co-host superstar @UofC Econ Prof. John List (@Econ_4_Everyone) on campus for a keynote talk called "Field Experiments on Trial: Bringing Causal Evidence to the Courtroom." Join us at 12PM on the 8th floor of Huntsman Hall!
Almost 1 Y post-release, the #Menopause #Penalty paper is still generating press attention! pressreader.com/article/281724… Tx @PatyOrtegaM @eleconomista The economic costs of menopause are real — affecting employment + reliance on social transfers. 📄Paper: ifs.org.uk/publications/m…
Everyone is trying to explain the mystery of why the job market is weak for college grads, most blaming AI. But that IS NOT THE MYSTERY. The mystery is why is it weak for young workers of ALL EDUCATION LEVELS New from me and @ngoldschlag agglomerations.substack.com/p/ai-and-young…
Realizing universities might be about to face the same disruption newspapers faced. Four years of college. Most of it could be learned in six months online.
Presenting the GABRIEL software package, which uses GPT to quantify attributes in qualitative data, from Hemanth Asirvatham, Elliott Mokski, and Andrei Shleifer nber.org/papers/w34834
