#AcademicRunPlaylist - 4/4/25

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Ben Waber
April 04, 2025

My medium sized black dog resting his head on my large golden-ish dog. They're in a grey room, with a red lamp on the left and through a large opening to the next room a person is standing in front of two brightly lit windows.

Yet another day of feeling crappy, but at least while I rested with these two I also listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an excellent talk by Penny Lewis on sleep engineering for health and cognition at the Psychonomic Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1OIpSQLVf4

Next was an informative talk by Camelia Kuhnen on the latest US unemployment numbers (with some discussion of the upcoming self-induced economic bloodbath to come) at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT_RV3Z-qvs

Next was a fascinating talk by Erika Chamberlain on who gets to decide when a person is dead at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. The effort and care that has gone into this deceptively hard to define phenomenon is instructive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK5NVZ7rSxM

Next was an intriguing talk by Reid Simmons on automated exercise coaches for the elderly at the GRASP Lab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7KLGHTGTZM

Next was a great talk by Mike Lovenheim on the interaction of gender and racial earnings differences with college major choice at the National Bureau of Economic Research https://www.youtube.com/live/5G6xVUAgwrI?si=aBfRH9dRxEzBdsrH&t=25703

Last was the NBER labor studies symposium. I particularly liked the talks by Jeff Weaver (hiring subsidy effects) and Alessandra Fenizia (working from home in the public sector). Highly recommend the whole event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGGWtZCkqfk