Associate Professor and C.W. Park Faculty Fellow… was on a billboard… born and raised in #Saskatchewan… married to @chifeng49… @UofIllinois household
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Retail firms used to send scouts to do site selection. But now, thanks to companies like Placer.ai, Buxton and others, they have access to shared intelligence. More data and better (more precise) predictive analytics, but…
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A case study of the decision support ecosystem suggests that even if the number of intelligence vendors increases, back of the envelope welfare costs unlikely to be eliminated…
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For more info about this new work with @chifeng49 (UIUC Econ):
Paper (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…)
Interactive companion (claude.ai/public/artifacts/d…).
@giesbusiness @UofIllinois
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A modest proposal: authors who submit math papers to arxiv containing obvious human-written errors that Opus 4.6 or GPT 5.5 would flag should receive a 1-year arxiv ban.
Why should I read your paper if you haven't even taken basic steps to ensure its accuracy?
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May 18
The bitter lesson in 26 words:
Don’t be distracted by human knowledge, as AI has been historically.
Instead focus on methods for creating knowledge that scale with computation, like search and learning.
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May 12
Here's an artifact that summarizes the key points of the paper: claude.ai/public/artifacts/4…
Tagging my amazing coauthors @jiangykyk @Chanman_ECON
@giesbusiness @YaleSOM @PurdueBusiness
Newly Accepted Articles 04/26 (1 of 4)
"Does Premium Version Adoption in mHealth Improve User Engagement and Health-Related Outcomes?" by
Jiang, Yikun; Uetake, Kosuke; Yang, Nathan @jiangykyk @Chanman_ECON @nccyang
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May 10
Thrilled that @RefineDotInk won the top prize in the Harvard President's Innovation Challenge startup competition (Student Open track).
CEO @yanncalvolopez made our pitch: that obsessive verification is essential for good research, and the time to scale it is now.
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May 7
Very nice new project using AI to measure American zoning laws at high resolution
dev.thezoningproject.org
by @AlexBartik @arpitrage @DMilo75
(paper: conference.nber.org/conf_pap…)
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New paper by Kalouptsidi, Kitamura, Lima, and Souza-Rodrigues:
restud.com/counterfactual-an…
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Congratulations to Gies assistant professor Unnati Narang on being named a 2025 MSI Young Scholar!
Narang joins a global cohort of experts at the leading edge of marketing research. Discover her research and more about the award: ow.ly/zv3N50YUIEc
ALT Gies Professor Unnati Narang in business attire, posing confidently indoors for a portrait related to the 2025 Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar Award.
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Apr 29
There is currently a Bull on the loose on the University of Illinois campus.
(video via my friends)
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Apr 25
The punishment for doing anything genuinely innovative is that much of the high-status crowd only likes it after it does not matter what they think.
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Apr 23
I’m really excited about this paper! Some of my work has pointed out problems in empirical work, but this one is all about new 🔧s.
If you (or your referees) want to know about the mechanisms by which a treatment affects an outcome, you may be interested. A 🧵.
Want to know about the mechanisms by which a treatment affects an outcome? This paper develops tools for testing hypotheses about mechanisms under weak assumptions. Check it out!
New paper by @jondr44 and Kwon:
restud.com/testing-mechanism…
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