Oh no! I see the Acemoglu and Restrepo "Fear the Robots" joke-of-a-paper, methodologically as bad as they come, got published in the JPE, and is getting some play in the NYTs.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/opinion/robots-trump-country-jobs.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage …
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The poor writer probably looked at Acemoglu's JBC medal, and his affiliation at MIT, and the fact that the paper was published in one of economics most prestigious journals, and then probably just assumed that this meant the paper isn't chalk-full of howling methodological errors
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No fault of the writer -- a lot of smart people don't realize how academia works. Simply because a paper is published in a top journal doesn't really imply it's been vetted more than your average wikipedia entry.
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From the article: “one more robot in a commuting zone reduces employment by about six workers.” -- that result is laughable. There is simply no way the results in this paper will be robust. And no one has any incentive to overturn the results -- the JPE wouldn't be interested.
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The whole "robots are replacing American workers, not Asian workers" is comical.
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