Amir Sariri
@AmirSariri
Learning | Assistant Professor at Purdue University | Visiting Scholar at MIT Sloan
🚀 New Paper Alert! "The Economics of Advice: Evidence from Start-up Mentoring" just published at Management Science: doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2… Does mentoring actually help startups succeed, and how exactly do mentors influence early-stage growth? Here's what I find 🧵:
There's so much handwaving about how "AI will cure cancer" or "AI will revolution science" What we need are more specific, actionable ideas for how AI could accelerate science & security Dropping next week: @IFP will publish 15 "AI for science" ideas from experts.
Slides from my discussion of (great) paper "Conversations at scale" docs.google.com/presentation/d… Interestingly, we're already seeing startups implement these kinds of ideas in market research e.g., @ListenLabs & @voicepanel with seemingly great success
Bro also basically created/saved from ruin what is now Indiana Dunes National Park U Chicago Econ hall of famer
I was aware that Paul Douglas, who co invented the Douglas-Cobb production function was a Senator — I did _not_ know that he enlisted in the Marines at age 50 in WW2, requested combat duty, and won two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star
Excited for all new housing developments meters from my office @PurdueBusiness @LifeAtPurdue 🏗️ I can count five major projects just within walking distance of the biz school. 🤯 Signals growth and economic opportunity coming to (small) college town.
Well, that just made our day :) TY @AmirSariri!
500 tedious labelling tasks completed in 8 minutes by @ExpectedParrot 🔥 Total time to set up the API <1h 🤯
(AI) scientists consistently underestimate the (positive) impact and improvement potential of their work. if that obs is true, then it's puzzling why experts should be consistently biased in one direction. is that because they know 'too much' about challenges?
Researchers: If you have a big data labeling job you want to use LLMs for---a user just ran 25,000 surveys on @ExpectedParrot w/o exceptions (no retries / rate limit errors etc). 1/
Ten out of ten! Many models for scientific publishing that are way way way better than the status quo. Great to have Matt doing this, and OpenPhil+Sloan funding!
What’s the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, @open_phil and @SloanFoundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal. Today, we’re inviting organizations to bid on a five-year contract to…
Praying that Israeli strikes remain focused on eliminating regime officials who have brought nothing but half century of death and destruction to my country. My heart goes out to civilians on both sides--can't imagine the fear they feel in these moments.
Just published in @JPubEcon "Regulating the direction of innovation" By @joshgans sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #econtwitter
Econometrica continues to allow for online comments. There have so far been four comments published on papers in the March 2025 issue econometricsociety.org/publications/e…
Are ideas getting harder to find? Yes! At least, I think — I cover the paper by Bloom, Jones, Van Reenen, and Webb, and then turn to its critics. Read it all at the link below!!