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Ana Gazmuri

vol. 238, n. 105176, October 2024

This paper uses a reform to Chile’s school choice system to study student socioeconomic segregation with a focus on student demand and school selectivity. The reform increases the subsidies that schools receive for low socioeconomic status students. I exploit this shock to schools’ incentives to...

Jean-François Bonnefon, and Bence Bago

vol. 385, September 2024, pp. 1164–1165

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has received broad criticism for its role in spreading misinformation (1–5). In its 2024 Global Risks Report, the World Economic Forum ranked AI-amplified misinformation as one of the most severe risks that the world currently faces (6). In this context,...

Philipp Koch, Viktor Stojkoski, and César Hidalgo

vol. 121 (39), n. e2402060121, September 2024

Can we use data on the biographies of historical figures to estimate the GDP per capita of countries and regions? Here, we introduce a machine learning method to estimate the GDP per capita of dozens of countries and hundreds of regions in Europe and North America for the past seven centuries...

Daniel L. Chen, Seda Ertac, Theodoros Evgeniou, Xin Miao, Ali Nadaf, and Emrah Yilmaz

vol. 9, n. 57, September 2024

Grit, a non-cognitive skill that indicates perseverance and passion for long-term goals, has been shown to predict academic achievement. This paper provides evidence that grit also predicts student outcomes during the challenging period of the Covid-19 pandemic. We use a unique dataset from a...

Sultan Mehmood, Shaheen Naseer, and Daniel L. Chen

vol. 170, n. 103317, September 2024

Randomizing different schools of thought in training altruism finds that training junior deputy ministers in the utility of empathy renders at least a 0.4 standard deviation increase in altruism. Treated ministers increased their perspective-taking: blood donations doubled, but only when blood...

Alexandre de Cornière, and Greg Taylor

vol. 70, n. 9, September 2024, pp. 5627–6482

We study mergers between firms operating in data-connected markets: the data generated as a byproduct of the activity on market A can be used by firms operating on market B. The effects of such a merger depend on whether data trade among independent firms is possible, and on whether data use...

Romain Espinosa, Sylvie Borau, and Nicolas Treich

vol. 14, n. 20584, September 2024

Fabien Gensbittel, Dana Pizarro, and Jérôme Renault

vol. 14, n. 4, September 2024, pp. 806 – 845

We extend the prophet inequality problem to a competitive setting. At every period, a new realization of a random variable with a known distribution arrives, which is publicly observed. Then two players simultaneously decide whether to pick an available value or to pass and wait until the next...

Marc Arnaudon, Koléhè Coulibaly-Pasquier, and Laurent Miclo

vol. 37, September 2024

Daniel L. Chen

vol. 111, n. 102218, August 2024