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Peter Bergman
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Associate Prof. of Economics @utaustin. Director http://learningcollider.org. @NBERpubs affiliate. Co-Chair @mit @jpal edtech. Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow. www.peter-bergman.com.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · Jun 2
Our work now published showing how better AI can improve both accuracy and diversity in hiring relative to supervised learning tools and status-quo human hiring.
reveconstudies.bsky.social The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · Jun 2
Li, @lindseyraymond.bsky.social & @peterbergman.bsky.social show that incorporating exploration into an interview screening algorithm improves demographic diversity & hiring efficiency, while traditional supervised learning-only tools improve hiring rates at the expense of minority applicants.

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 20h
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 2d
Incredible.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d
Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
While Stanford ends programs for first generation and underrepresented students, they maintain their legacy preferences in admissions…
cantb.bsky.social Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 2d
Stanford is doing this because it wants to
Stanford University discontinued. It’s enhancing diversity and graduate education. Dr. old Fellowship, a graduate program aimed at diversifying at student body. The Stanford daily report reported. The university also will no longer offer housing and dining support for students from outside the Bay Area who participate in summer undergraduate research fellowship. The Fellowship House in Sanford school of engineering offered an immersive research and graduate school preparation experience for first generation students and student students from historically underrepresented communities.”

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 2d
Stanford is doing this because it wants to
Stanford University discontinued. It’s enhancing diversity and graduate education. Dr. old Fellowship, a graduate program aimed at diversifying at student body. The Stanford daily report reported. The university also will no longer offer housing and dining support for students from outside the Bay Area who participate in summer undergraduate research fellowship. The Fellowship House in Sanford school of engineering offered an immersive research and graduate school preparation experience for first generation students and student students from historically underrepresented communities.”

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d
I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change
Screenshot of the article which reads: Professor Thomas K. Hubbard requested the money for a conference held in April 2016 named “Theorizing Consent: Educational and Legal Perspectives on Campus Rape.” Hubbard said he received no money from the J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation. Attendance at the conference was required for students in Hubbard’s Mythology of Rape class, according to its syllabus.

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Nathan Nunn 🇨🇦 🇰🇷 @nathannunn.bsky.social · 2d
This is much more praise than we (or at least I) deserve, but we'll take it ;)
jmorenocruz.bsky.social Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 3d
Everyone working in development economics should read this chapter.

They provide evidence that what works in development is less about finding universally good levers and more about designing interventions compatible with locally embedded social structures.

www.nber.org/papers/w3481...

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 2d
actually just saw @danielawitten.bsky.social is on BlueSky!

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 3d
Thanks for sharing. Daniela Witten posted on this a while back topic: xcancel.com/daniela_witt...
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Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 3d
Everyone working in development economics should read this chapter.

They provide evidence that what works in development is less about finding universally good levers and more about designing interventions compatible with locally embedded social structures.

www.nber.org/papers/w3481...

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 3d
Gotta go tele.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d
Important & timely working paper from East, Cox, and my colleague @caitlinpatler.bsky.social

Trump II systematically using "community arrests" (ICE arrests on the street, workplace, in the community, etc) and not targeting immigrants w/ criminal convictions

NBER link: www.nber.org/system/files...

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 4d
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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 4d
Do you read the audiobook @maxkasy.bsky.social ??

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 4d
👏👏

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 4d
Very nice review of "The means of prediction" by @B_Eichengreen:

smartthinkingbooks.com/smart-thinki...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 5d
Good report here on how very little TANF funds actually go to supporting low income families. It has become a slush fund for states to spend on things that have little to do with program’s mission.

“How a $30 Billion Welfare Program Became a ‘Slush Fund’ for States”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How a $30 Billion Welfare Program Became a ‘Slush Fund’ for States
Republicans and Democrats alike decry the lack of oversight for America’s famous antipoverty experiment.
www.wsj.com

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 6d
Y'all, @sandydarity.bsky.social is on #bluesky!

Dr. Sandy Darity is one the top experts on the racial wealth gap for Black Americans. Alongside Dr. Kristen Mullen, they find that giving every Black American a direct payment of $267,000 would help close the racial wealth gap. #blacksky
William ‘Sandy’ Darity insists federal dollars are the only path to full reparations - Andscape
Advocates for Black equality call many things “reparations” – educational programs, housing assistance, health care clinics, even efforts to foster reconciliation between the races. But there is a sch...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6d
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 6d
Q: What time is kickoff?

A: The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. from one group called the “New England Patriots” and another called the “Seattle Seahawks.”
FAQs for This Weekend’s Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football
What time is kickoff? The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. f...
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Joel Suss @joelsuss.ft.com · 7d
This is a great chart by the @economist.com summing up Kevin Warsh using LLMs and over 200 speeches/op-eds. I did a similar exercise showing same result (Warsh v FOMC) but with less data

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7d
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7d
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 7d
MOAR
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Leader of Paul Weiss Resigns Over Epstein Ties
Newly released files show Brad Karp exchanged emails about a client with convicted sex offender.
www.wsj.com

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 7d
#EconSky: Tymofiy Mylovanov from the Kyiv School of Economics is a simply a hero.

While Trump is busy allying with Putin, Tymofiy is out in the cold working for his students and his country.

I will match all donations to KSE, up to $1K total (link below).

www.youtube.com/shorts/RgDXI...
Update from KSE
YouTube video by Tymofiy Mylovanov
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 7d
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him

The startling offer, which was described by two people familiar with the conversation, was swiftly rejected by Schumer.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/p...
Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project — if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last month that he was finally prepared to drop his freeze on billions of dollars in funding for a major New York infrastructure projec...
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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 8d
Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com
www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...
Tenure Will Be Eliminated at Most of Oklahoma’s Public Colleges, Governor Says
Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, directed the state’s two-dozen regional universities and community colleges to phase out the practice. Existing faculty members will be grandfathered in.
www.chronicle.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 8d
Lol thank you R/Bitcoin. Here is a crypto investor walking towards the light. Next he will discover the fundamental price of Bitcoin is $0 (or at least whatever the demand for organised crime use can sustain)