Age & Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.00790 "…average skills increase into the forties before decreasing slightly in literacy & more strongly in numeracy …skills decline at older ages only for those with below-average skill usage. White-collar & higher-educated […]
via Nature: Scaling up & shaping up large language models increased their tendency to provide sensible yet incorrect answers at difficulty levels humans cannot supervise, highlighting the need for a shift in #AI#reliability [Original post on fediscience.org]
Population Aging and the Rise of #Populismhttps://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mcd:mcddps:2024_07&r=&r=age#aging#trust in political institutions, and a rise […]
The determinants of #trusthttp://eprints.lse.ac.uk/124608/1/Economica_-_2024_-_Kovacs_-_The_determinants_of_trust_findings_from_large_representative_samples_in_six_OECD_countries.pdf "…even though self-interest is relevant for […]
Evolving Beveridge Curve Dynamics https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/media/75496/download?attachment "the Beveridge Curve represents the impact of multiple shocks: in addition to the productivity & job destruction shocks… wage & demand shocks are also important … the slope generated by wage shocks […]
In their call for a return to the office, CEOs reveal how little they are needed https://johnquiggin.com/2024/09/27/in-their-plaintive-call-for-a-return-to-the-office-ceos-reveal-how-little-they-are-needed/ "…corporations that have managed to enforce full-time office attendance fall into 2 […]
Break Up Big Econ: The economics profession has become insular & status-obsessed, & not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/break-big-econ/679748/ "…the empirical turn in economics may have made our concentration problem […]
The Arrival of Field Experiments in Economics https://conversableeconomist.com/2024/09/23/the-arrival-of-field-experiments-in-economics/ [Original post on fediscience.org]
