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How Much Is Data Privacy Worth? A Preliminary Investigation
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Do consumers value data privacy? How much? In a survey of 2,416 Americans, we find that the median consumer is willing to pay just $5 per month to maintain data
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The Rise of Self-Censorship in America
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This paper provides new data and analysis of the increasing trend of self-censorship among Americans from 1954 to 2023. Drawing upon a nationally representative
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Secrets Revealed: How Magicians Protect Intellectual Property without Law
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Intellectual property scholars have begun to explore the curious dynamics of IP's negative spaces, areas in which IP law offers scant protection for innovators,
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Federal Judge Seeks Patent Cases
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Imagine the following advertisement popping up on Craigslist: "FEDERAL JUDGE SEEKS PATENT CASES! (Waco) — Former patent litigator, recently appointed to th
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We seek to understand how individuals' views on the economy are influenced by the information they are exposed to through media usage and political talk network
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The Corpus of United States State Statutes—Design, Construction and Use
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There is a need for more publicly available corpora of legal language. To help fill this gap, we have developed the Corpus of U.S. State Statutes, or CorUSSS, a
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Situating Just Transition as a Distinct Legal Concept
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<span>Just Transition has attracted considerable attention as a policy objective in the EU, Scotland, Canada and beyond in recent years and has influenced polic
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Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis
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Despite reports that homeowners are increasingly “walking away” from their mortgages, most homeowners continue to make their payments even when they are signifi
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Salaries on Display: Unintended Consequences of Wage Disclosure
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This study examines whether wage disclosure assists employers in suppressing wages. Economic theories suggest that wage disclosure might facilitate wage coordin
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Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government
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Why does public conflict over societal risks persist in the face of compelling and widely accessible scientific evidence? We conducted an experiment to probe tw
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Regulating LGBTQ Speech in the Classroom
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<div> Public school teachers across the country have found their speech relating to LGBTQ students and issues more regulated than ever. In left-leaning states,
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Feels Like Empathy: How “Emotional” AI Challenges Human Essence
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As global loneliness intensifies alongside rapid AI advancements, artificial emotional intelligence (AEI) presents itself as a paradoxical solution. This study
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Adam Smith in the City of Light
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<div> The general outline of Adam Smith’s travels in Europe has been retold many times, but little is known about his comings and goings in Paris. What we can
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Should ChatGPT be Biased? Challenges and Risks of Bias in Large Language Models
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As generative language models, exemplified by ChatGPT, continue to advance in their capabilities, the spotlight on biases inherent in these models intensifies.
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Echo chambers - online spaces where individuals are met with reinforcing viewpoints and insulation from opposing viewpoints - are of increasing interest to soci
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In recent decades, Africa has experienced significant population growth, particularly in countries such as Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, the Democratic Republic of
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Generative AI and the Nature of Work
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<span>Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology demonstrate considerable potential to complement human capital intensive activities. While an e
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Wikipedia is an essential source of information online, so efforts to combat misinformation on this platform are critical to the health of the information ecosy
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<p>The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs</p>
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<div> <span>This article explores the intricate intersection of copyright law and large language models (LLMs), a cutting-edge artificial intelligence technolo
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The Impact of PhD Studies on Mental Health-A Longitudinal Population Study
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Recent self-reported and cross-sectional survey evidence documents high levels of mental health problems among PhD students. We study the impact of PhD studies
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James H. Simons, PhD: Using Mathematics to Make Money
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In September 2022, James Simons spoke with members of the Journal of Investment Consulting editorial board about how his experience as a mathematician prepared
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The Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning
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We argue that exclusionary zoning—the imposition of restrictions on the amount and types of housing that property owners are allowed to build— is unconstitution
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The Dublin Declaration: Gain for the Meat Industry, Loss for Science
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We critically analyzed the "Dublin Declaration of Scientists on the Societal Role of Livestock" (DD), a document promoting animal farming, and its imp
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<span>It is hard to deny that the United States is a Christian nation despite the First Amendment’s promise that the legislature will not establish a religion.
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The Power of Narrative: Understanding the Laffer Curve's Enduring Political Utility
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The Laffer Curve, originally a theoretical model describing the relationship between tax rates and government revenue, became integral to the debate over U.S. t
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Tell Me and I Forget, Make Me Commit and I Remember: Soft Commitments and Digital Behavior
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The use of digital technologies represents a substantial fraction of greenhouse emissions. Despite the presence of informational programs, consumers often remai
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Making Philosophy Relevant to Economists
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This chapter discusses how philosophy could influence economists in the future. It emphasizes factors affecting economists' willingness to incorporate philosoph
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The symptomology of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) has been found to have many commonalities with Long Covid (LC) symptomology. The
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Beyond True and False: Fake News and the Digital Epistemic Divide
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No amount of fact-checking will save us from digital fake news. The massive fact-checking, flagging, and content removal campaigns run by major digital platform
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Este ensayo reflexiona sobre el informe “La Inteligencia Artificial Generativa en la docencia universitaria: oportunidades, desafíos y recomendaciones” publicad
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<div> Starting from February 24, 2022, many multinational companies operating in the Russian Federation announced their intention to exit the Russian market, c
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The Deception on the Critical Value Table of the Durbin-Watson Test
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This paper proposes the wrong critical values in the current critical value table of the Durbin-Watson test. By given the Durbin-Watson test setting, we observe
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The Ex Post Egalitarian Manual for Publishing the Unpublishable
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As an economist, you sometimes need to get an unpublishable idea published. With this manual, you will maximize your chances of convincing referees that your id
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Degraded peatlands in Germany are undergoing significant transformations, requiring effective intervention strategies for society, climate, and nature. This stu
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The Quickhull algorithm is a simple algorithm for constructing the convex hull of a set of n points. Quickhull is usually described for points in the plane, in
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Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled
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Scale-up is the process of growing a venture in size. The paper identifies modularity and speed as keys to successful scale-up. On that basis four types of scal
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The Flaws of Policies Requiring Human Oversight of Government Algorithms
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As algorithms become an influential component of government decision-making around the world, policymakers have debated how governments can attain the benefits
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Defending Jews From The Definition of Antisemitism
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<p><span>The 2023 Israel-Gaza conflict has ignited an intense legal and ethical debate over the definition of antisemitism, leaving deep scars on communities an
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Wikipedia is an essential source of information online, so efforts to combat misinformation on this platform are critical to the health of the information ecosy
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Ending the AI Race: Regulatory Collaboration as Critical Counter-Narrative <br>
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<p><span>The future of artificial intelligence is not a zero-sum game – or, at least, it does not have to be. The AI Race narrative emphasizes that states must
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Work from Home & Productivity: Evidence from Personnel & Analytics Data on it Professionals
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Using personnel and analytics data from over 10,000 skilled professionals at a large Asian IT services company, we compare productivity before and during the wo
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The Self-Organizing Society: The Role of Institutions
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Is it possible to constrain a human society in such a way that self-organization will thereafter tend to produce outcomes that advance the goals of the society?
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Levels of Abstraction and the Turing Test
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An important lesson that philosophy can learn from the Turing Test and computer science more generally concerns the careful use of the method of Levels of Abstr
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Rewriting the Rules for Corporate Elections
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Public company boards of directors have opened up a "hot new front" in their never-ending battle with hedge fund activists by rewriting the procedural
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<span>Backtesting stands as a cornerstone technique in the development of systematic investment strategies, but its successful use is often compromised by metho
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<div> Can Large Language Models (LLMs) accurately predict election outcomes? While LLMs have demonstrated impressive performance in various domains, including
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U.S.-China technological rivalry presents dilemmas for third countries. Cloud computing infrastructure has become an acute front in this rivalry because of the
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The Globalization of Copyright Exceptions for AI Training
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Generative AI, machine learning and other computational uses of copyrighted works pose profound questions for copyright law. This article conducts a global surv
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Abortion and American Exceptionalism
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<p><span>This Article explores why abortion is being recriminalized in the United States in sharp contrast to the historical evolution of reproductive rights. I
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Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women's Influence in Teams
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Policies that increase women's representation often intend to provide women with influence over processes and decisions of the organization in which they a
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