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Jonathan Hersh

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Jonathan Hersh

@jonathanhersh

Information Systems and Economics prof. ✡️ AP @ChapmanArgyros ML @workhelix

Los Angeles, CA

Joined November 2008

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Jonathan Hersh
@jonathanhersh
Feb 3, 2023
Curious about what we can do to help non-experts interact intelligently with AI systems? 🚨New paper alert: "Explainable AI Helps Bridge the AI Skills Gap: Evidence from a Large Bank" 🚨 Read about my field study w/ @selina_carter_ digitalcommons.chapman.edu/economics_arti… @ChapmanArgyros
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Explainable AI Helps Bridge the AI Skills Gap: Evidence from a Large Bank
Advances in machine learning have created an “AI skills gap” both across and within firms. As AI becomes embedded in firm processes, it is unknown how this will impact the digital divide between...
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Jonathan Hersh
@jonathanhersh
May 14, 2024
Japan achieves low housing costs by having a broadly representative group decide on policy region-wide, instead of just a noisy group of rich and older residents who live nearly and complain about the impact of a new apartment on their street parking.
Michael Wiebe
@michael_wiebe
May 14, 2024
This is the way.
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Jonathan Hersh
@jonathanhersh
Mar 12, 2024
Replying to @kane
It's almost as if people deemed oppressed have their own desires, agencies and capabilities and want to transcend the idea that they lack power. Absolute kings, all of them.
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Jonathan Hersh
@jonathanhersh
Dec 24, 2023
It should really be evident you want to live in the period after central banks (post 1913) than before.
Crémieux
@cremieuxrecueil
Dec 24, 2023
This is such a great chart for showing off how good economists have gotten at stabilizing the economy.
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Jonathan Hersh
@jonathanhersh
Jan 20, 2024
Every time I teach development economics I have to dispel for students the myth of the population bomb. Underpopulation is more the concern but you know no vibes there.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑
@mnolangray
Jan 20, 2024
The craziest thing about Paul Ehrlich isn't that he some guy in the 1960s provided cover for the involuntary sterilization of millions. (And fantasized about killing many more.) It's that he's still around and still *celebrated* by basically all mainstream institutions.
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Jonathan Hersh
@jonathanhersh
Jan 30, 2022
Teaching a course on machine learning in development economics for MA level economics students. Post papers you think I should cover that I might have otherwise looked over. #EconTwitter
Jonathan Hersh
@jonathanhersh
Jun 13, 2023
Replying to @becauseberkeley
I prefer it to this
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Jonathan Hersh
@jonathanhersh
Feb 10, 2023
Replying to @the_transit_guy
Meanwhile their kids who studied abroad in Paris, Amsterdam, London, or Barcelona: “What’s wrong with trains? Who wants to drive everywhere?”
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Jonathan Hersh
@jonathanhersh
Feb 9, 2024
Replying to @YsabelJuradoLA
I'm a local resident and live blocks from the gondola. Every game day the streets are unusable with busses and cars. The gondola will solve this problem, create jobs and investments in our neighborhoods and cities, reduce emissions and smog. I want the gondola in my
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Jonathan Hersh
@jonathanhersh
Feb 20, 2023
Replying to @PoundstoneWill
Roads are incredibly expensive to build. Which is fine, but I like my taxes low and would rather just build this. Can't have low taxes and high level services costar.com/article/899472…
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Jonathan Hersh
@jonathanhersh
Aug 16, 2022
Replying to @GoLocalMetro and @JalbyMD
You lost me at “adding less than 15 minutes to each riders travel time.” Can’t these businesses handle a short interruption to save hours from the lives of millions of people?
Jonathan Hersh
@jonathanhersh
Jan 24, 2024
Replying to @KaoticLeftist
Trust funds gonna trust fund.
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Jonathan Hersh
@jonathanhersh
Dec 15, 2022
Replying to @rebeccaeparson
No one is lying to you. The US has many vacant homes in areas with low job growth (mostly the Midwest and the south). At the same time there’s very few vacant homes in areas with high job growth (coastal cities). Two things can be true at the same time.
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Jonathan Hersh
@jonathanhersh
Mar 21, 2024
Replying to @rpyers
How is it legal to call this "strategy consulting" if it's for fashion styling? That seems like fraud.
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