The Review | Essay
I finished my economics Ph.D. in the summer of 2022, a few months before ChatGPT was released. I did not know it at the time, but my cohort was the last to graduate under the old rules. The empirical toolkit I’d spent six years acquiring — reading the literature, cleaning datasets, drafting papers and revising them — was about to undergo a fundamental change. That work can now be done, and increasingly
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About the Author
Kevin S. Smith is an assistant professor of economics and business at Beloit College.