Daniel Björkegren @danbjork
Machine learning/digital data for developing economies. Asst. Professor @Columbia. Head of AI and Development Initiative @Columbia_CDEP dan.bjorkegren.com New York City Joined May 2009-
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Join us to talk AI and global development next week!
Join us to talk AI and global development next week!
Working on AI for global development? Join us at the World Bank in May. 📅Submit your proposal to speak by Feb 25
Working on AI for global development? Join us at the World Bank in May. 📅Submit your proposal to speak by Feb 25
🚨 Dream Job Alert 🚨 We are looking to fill various positions including NLP researcher, data engineer and software developer. If you are interested in #LLM, causal inference and having a positive impact on the world, please reach out! worldbank.org/en/research/di…
Please share this opportunity! @Microsoft & @DataDotOrg are awarding funding & support to successful organisations around the 🌎 who are training teams on #generativeAI to drive #socialimpact. ⏳There’s a Q&A Session on July 12th and deadline for submissions is August 15th…
Clever way to assess representation in LLMs
Clever way to assess representation in LLMs
Lots of AI opportunities: the Gates Foundation is providing grants of $100k for projects on LLMs from low/middle income countries gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/cata…
🔥 Workshop announcement🔥 "Social foundations for statistics and machine learning" Tutorial lectures, frontier talks & panel discussion! Tentative program: maxkasy.github.io/home/social_fo… All are welcome to attend in person or virtually! Registration: econresearch.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9B…
How could AI affect developing economies? I think through possibilities in a new post. dan.bjorkegren.com/blog/2023/03/a…
This is a neat paper using ML to quantify differences in how women and men are treated in social situations (NBER presentations)
This is a neat paper using ML to quantify differences in how women and men are treated in social situations (NBER presentations)
Are you doing a ecoomics-related PhD? Interested in AI/ML? Then apply to our Summer Institute in Machine Learning! Learn from awesome faculty Meet other like-minded students Get exposed to cool, new ideas bit.ly/3ZRvTxr (march 24 deadline)
NetMob is back this fall! A fun conference on learning from mobile phone network data
NetMob is back this fall! A fun conference on learning from mobile phone network data
We’re incredibly excited to hear our panelists discuss AI and Discrimination in Consumer Credit Markets TOMORROW! See you there @Prof_Bruckner @CFPB @nikitaggarwal @TaliaGillis @tjanger @theSBPC @PamelaFoohey @danbjork @NatHoopes @Upstart @FinRegLab @NizanGP @VijayVRaghavan @FTC
Thought provoking paper: how should we measure poverty when some households are poor part of the year?
Thought provoking paper: how should we measure poverty when some households are poor part of the year?
Funding: $5k-450k for research on supply side of digital finance in lower/middle income countries. refind-isser.ug.edu.gh/RFP/1st%20Call…
Postdoc opportunity: work on supply side of access to digital finance with @fannan2316 povertyactionlab.org/careers/postdo…
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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 @DinaPomeranz
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Great news! Netmob '24, the major conference on mobile phone data analysis, will take place in the fall, in Washington, D.C. organized by the @WorldBank. See you there! netmob.org
@danbjork @Brown_Economics @warwickecon Thank you so much, Dan 😊
Time to celebrate! Last week I defended my dissertation @Brown_Economics and next fall I will join @warwickecon as an Assistant Professor 🥳
Regression is a tool for making comparisons If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running
Finally posting a new paper on how diffusion estimates on networks (e.g. for epidemics, information spread, tech adoption) can be highly non-robust to even tiny (vanishing!) measurement errors. 🧵 [Link to paper: paulgp.github.io/papers/diffusi…] 1/
📢We're delighted to announce Patrick Vu (@Brown_Economics) will be joining us later this year! 🎉 Hopefull we'll get him to join twitter too 😂 patrickhvu.com
🔥 New iteration of my "Foundations of #machinelearning" course starting this week:🔥 maxkasy.github.io/home/ML_Oxford… Newly added content this year: #GenerativeAI - Transformers and #LLMs. - Autoencoders, diffusion, and image generation.
This page of AI for Economists with prompts and resources from Jesse Lastunen is gold. sites.google.com/view/lastunen/…
85% of LLM papers studying equity impacts focus on equity *harms* This is a vital discussion. But equally vital is the more opportunity-focused counterpoint: “what new *opportunities* do LLMs enable that could promote equity?” Our new preprint presents 4 opportunities. 1/3
Welcome Dr. Daniel Björkegren to our network - we are looking forward to future cooperations with @Columbia and @ColumbiaSIPA - check out Daniel's Twitter profile: @danbjork and the CESifo Research Network website: cesifo.org/en/network-mem…
In her JMP, Geetika (@nagpal_geetika) studies the effects of relaxing building height constraints in Mumbai, India. Using granular housing data and a structural model, she shows how increasing heights may actually make apartments smaller, attracting more lower-income households.
Some people ask me how I stay sane on Twitter and how to make the best of Twitter. Here are some of my practices. 1) I created lists of my favorite accounts. Then I follow the lists, rather then whatever the algorithm feeds me. Tweets in lists appear in chronological order.
🤖🧠NEW PAPER🧠🤖 Language models are so broadly useful that it's easy to forget what they are: next-word prediction systems Remembering this fact reveals surprising behavioral patterns: 🔥Embers of Autoregression🔥 (counterpart to "Sparks of AGI") arxiv.org/abs/2309.13638 1/8
I couldn't be more excited about this!! In addition to my work on @OurWorldInData, and my role at @oxmartinschool, I'm joining the @BlavatnikSchool — Oxford's excellent school of public policy — and will be teaching there from this academic year onwards!
We are delighted to welcome @MaxCRoser as our new Professor of Practice in Global Data Analytics! Max is the founder and director of @OurWorldInData and Director of the @oxmartinschool Programme on Global Development (1/2)
My favorite picture I've seen this year: instagram.com/p/CwQT_iTMomZ/
I spent some time today putting together thoughts for someone interested in the evidence on how to help low income countries (LICs) grow and I thought there might be wider interest so here goes a thread. Achieving a higher growth rate is the holy grail of econ but...1/many
This is an extremely intelligent, reasonable, well-informed debate about whether AI will massively accelerate innovation. Highly recommended. asteriskmag.com/issues/03/the-…
This is really interesting, though I don't think it's a 'bad' thing per se---I think we'll likely need a different kind of platform+structure for human assistance/contributions in light of this technology
🚨 New working paper! Are Large Language Models a threat to digital public goods? @RMaria_drc N. Laurentsyeva and I find a 16% decrease in activity on @StackOverflow since release of #ChatGPT. Decrease is language dependent & reaches 25% by June: arxiv.org/abs/2307.07367 Thread⬇️
📢Call for papers: CESifo Area Conference on the Economics of #Digitization 2023 takes place on 1/2 December 2023 in Munich - the keynote lecture will be delivered by @danbjork - Scientific Organizer: Stephen P. Ryan @WUSTL cesifo.org/en/event/2023-…
New article in JPE with @eoinmcguirk and @nate_g_hilger: We show private incentives affect legislative voting on issues of war and peace. From WW1 to Vietnam, legislators w/ draft-age sons were substantially less likely to vote in favor of conscription. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10…
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