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Online version of The Remix is now here
My new book is called Causal Inference: the Remix and it comes out August 25th. Like my first, its publisher is Yale University Press. And Yale, as with…
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Long overdue closing tabs on a Saturday morning
Oh what fool I’ve been.
Aug 15
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Which stages of research production should we let AI Agents loose
Six months ago, it was both original and true to say that AI agents were capable of autonomously, start to finish, producing a manuscript of…
Aug 14
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The Art of Loving
On Monday night I attended Olivia Dean’s concert at the Garden in Boston. Me and my friend had floor seats, and once the stadium was nearly full, I…
Aug 13
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Will AI revive the Labor theory of value
I teach history of economic thought at Baylor every year.
Aug 11
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My strategy for talks on agents for research
My preference for teaching new concepts in statistics and causal inference to people is like this.
Aug 10
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How to improve understanding with Claude Code
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham posted on his substack feed the other day a link to this interesting blog post by Geoffrey Litt called “Understanding is the new…
Aug 7
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Demographic differences in online dating
I recently found some interesting surveys over at the Pew Center about online dating in America.
Aug 6
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Episode 16: Landing the Plane
After 16 episodes of working with Claude Code to study the effect of abortion clinic closures on marriage rates using a natural experiment, so to speak…
Aug 4
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July 2026
Hidden Curriculum (August 5th and 6th)
Greetings again!
Jul 31
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Prose is not constraints and other things I learned from Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham's NBER talk on AI in empirical research
By mid-2026, I think many researchers understand that coding agents like Claude Code and Codex have dramatically reduced the marginal cost of producing…
Jul 30
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Sex recessions, rise in casual sex, online dating, declining trust, screening and other changes in US sex patterns
I always wanted to be the Kinsey of economics who specialized in sex research.
Jul 28
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