Something is amiss in empirical economics. Despite the advances of the credibility revolution, published estimates tend to be inflated and overconfident. We argue that this stems from a weakness in the dominant econometric framework: treating the researcher like a calculator that mechanically...

This study evaluates the effectiveness of varying levels of human and artificial intelligence (AI) integration in reproducibility assessments of quantitative social science research. We computationally reproduced quantitative results from published articles in the social sciences with 288...

Although wage rates are lower when employers have monopsony power, we find that the value of a statistical life (VSL) is not reduced when labor markets are more concentrated. Because the estimated VSL is the product of the wage and the wage-risk tradeoff rate, a greater tradeoff rate in highly...

Webb, Holyoak & Lu (2023) compared human reasoners and GPT-3 on several tasks involving analogy resolution, documenting human-level or superhuman performance in most conditions. In this direct replication, we tested a different, open-weights language model (Mixtral-8x7B) on the same materials...

We investigate if Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit personality-driven strategic behavior in the Ultimatum Game by manipulating Dark Factor of Personality (D-Factor) profiles via standardized prompts. Across 400k decisions from 17 open-source models and 4,166 human benchmarks, we test whether...

The considerable literature on the value of a statistical life (VSL) documents the wage-mortality risk tradeoffs for the working population. Regulatory analyses often must monetize risks to populations at the tails of the age distribution. Because of the longer life expectancy for children,...

Automated decision-making in legal contexts is often perceived as less fair than its human counterpart. This human-automation fairness gap poses practical challenges for implementing automated systems in the public sector. Drawing on experimental data from 4,250 participants in three public...

Recent studies use names—first and surnames—to estimate intergenerational mobility in sources that lack direct family links. While generating novel evidence on intergenerational transmission processes, it remains unclear how different estimators compare and how reliable they are. This paper...

1. Introduction to an Anthropometric History of Latin America 2. Growing up in turbulent times: Economic growth and biological wellbeing in Argentina, 1966-2000 3. Height inequality in Chile: an empirical analysis for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 4. Biological Standards of Living in...

A large body of research suggests that better-looking people are associated with a variety of positive economic outcomes, an effect labeled the beauty premium. However, the vast majority of this evidence has been demonstrated in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic)...