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Mismeasuring learning: Beware of psychometric test scores
High-frequency data from a large early childhood intervention in China indicates that skills develop through the emergence of qualitatively new abilities and stochastic fluctuations, rather than as higher levels of a fixed trait, challenging the prac...
Thinking like an economist about AI, labour markets, and AGI
How do economists think about the economic impacts of AI today? And will our current economic paradigm still make sense if we reach AGI?
When women can’t move freely and easily, they can’t participate in the labour force
Women’s participation in skills training Pakistan is constrained primarily by social and safety barriers, rather than preferences or the ability to monetise skills. Evidence from interventions that reduce these constraints shows that addressing mobil...
