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    The Limits of Artificial Intelligence in Ethical Decision Making
    … to reflect human values. Every day, physicians and judges make high-stakes decisions under intense time pressure and … Bentley MacLeod develops an economic framework to explain how these professionals reason under uncertainty—and when … emphasizes that most professional decisions occur in the “long tail”: rare, complex, poorly labeled situations where …
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    Visiting Faculty FAQ
    … Visiting Faculty FAQ … Visiting Faculty FAQ Find a list of Frequently Asked … - michele.guliani@yale.edu Yale NetID, Password & Photo ID How do I activate my Yale Net ID? To activate your Yale …
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    In Progress: A Tool to Help Policymakers Safely Re-open the Economy
    … and edited. Can you describe the model you’re developing? How will it address the pandemic? To effectively study … It’s very different from a situation in which you don’t do any testing or you do limited testing and essentially … when they experience a sudden spike in infections. I’m not saying this isn’t an effective approach, but lockdowns …
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    Samuel Kortum Appointed as Director of Yale’s Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics
    … Foundation. What are your research interests? Ever since I was a graduate student at Yale, I’ve been interested in … be explained by labor or capital. I wanted to explore how we could go a little deeper into questions about what’s driving that—For example, how do you measure it? How do we use more economic theory to …
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    Sam Kortum at the Trade and Development conference, hosted by EGC on February 28, 2020
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    Costas Meghir on Seeking Scalable Solutions to Entrenched Poverty
    … on a large scale.   “We’re in the business of exploring how certain interventions would translate into scalable … have been reanalyzed to confirm their long-term effects. I’ve been working with economist Orazio Attanasio — who will … This will allow us to see if the kids who started later do as well as the kids who started earlier. If we see fading …
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    At Cowles Foundation, New Director Forges New Paths
    … and mechanism design. Much of my work tries to understand how people’s incentives are shaped by contracts and … by applied questions. For example, some applications I have studied include employment relationships between firms … the workers. As a result, a worker may not be willing to do his share unless he expects that others in the team will …
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    Fabrizio Zilibotti on How Economics Shapes Parenting
    … Yale News about his new book, “Love, Money & Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids.” Zilibotti … activities. It’s important to note that we do not consider this a measure of how much parents love their children. When I grew up, my parents would let me spend a lot of time on my …
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    ‘Path-breaking work’ adapted 19th-century trade theory to modern day
    … the international dimension of innovation and technology — how technological changes spread across national boundaries. … Kortum said. “Ricardo’s insight was that this wouldn’t make any sense because that country wouldn’t be getting … ramifications of international trade in the modern day. “I think our work bridged a gap that allowed Ricardo’s logic …
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    The Lasting Impact of Steve Berry’s Work — Through the Eyes of Colleagues and Students
    … researchers new tools for studying markets and changed how policy is evaluated. But Berry’s influence has extended … supply responses jointly shape outcomes.” Berry’s methods make that possible in healthcare markets, school choice … seemed to see the bigger picture of my project long before I could,” says Cui. “At the same time, he never hesitated to …
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    Shapiro Named Sloan Research Fellow
    … research focuses on trade and the environment. He studies how trade policy affects pollution; how environmental policy affects trade; and how research on trade can inform environmental policy. David …
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    Welcome to the School of Management
    … acclimate you to Yale and make your visit more enjoyable, I have compiled a list of information and resources that you … (lunch card) Sign up for Cowles announcements Things to do during your visit in New Haven Safety, security and … you of any emergencies on the Yale campus. Instructions on how to register can be found on the Yale Emergency Management …
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    Xiaohong Chen 2017 China Award Tribute Video
    … data and what we can’t get. And it teaches us things about how to design strategies for acquisition and more data and … unknown jointly by what they called sieve Minimum Distance (MD) or sieve GMM procedures. Her theories are … with the aim to encourage Chinese economists to make contribution to the development of economic science. …
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    In memoriam: Herbert Scarf, pioneering economist and inspiring teacher
    … that time,” and he hoped “that the mathematical problems I worked on would have an ultimate practical application: … to the unanticipated 1929 stock market crash in order to make economics more mathematical and thus less prone to … are divisible, but they were baffled by the problem of how to find one, except in special cases. The Scarf algorithm …
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    Pande and coauthors: Using technology to save lives during India's monsoon season
    … flood alerts are issued centrally through the media and do not indicate specific areas where flooding will occur. In … and trusted contacts. In this era of social distancing, how can we create effective interfaces with smartphones? … of households said they would like to receive alerts from local leaders (that is, the head of the village or members of …
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    Rescue operation of people udring the Kosi Floods in Bihar, 20 August 2008. Kumarrakajee, Wikimedia Commons