AI in the Classroom: When to Encourage It, When to Restrict It. How to decide how much and what AI to encourage in the classroom (for now). A useful starting point might be the distinction between fundamental and higher-order skills, and between learning and performing. Using these distinctions, communicate with students in syllabi and in AI policies, which skills you are aiming at and why AI use can help or impede your learning objectives.
Growth Diagnostics in Absence of Government Microdata. Has the rise of non-government data reduced the need for official microdata in regional economic analysis? In this post, I share the lessons from a recent experiment that tests how far municipal growth diagnostics can go when government microdata is unavailable.Â
Outrunning the Machines: Policy in the Age of AI. Creative destruction has always been a feature of technological progress. This time, the transformation is faster and more sweeping than ever before. We see the Red Queen effect unfolding before our eyes: to keep pace with technology, humans must run faster than ever, and policy is their most potent lever.