Date
April 2, 2015
News Type
Media Highlight
Source
The Washington Post
Sheila M. Olmstead
University Fellow
Sheila Olmstead is a university fellow at RFF. Her recent research projects focus on adaptation to the water resource implications of climate change, economic valuation of reductions in nutrient pollution in urban coastal areas, and more.
Deep-Sea Mining? Exploring Key Trade-Offs for the Energy Transition
This paper assesses the economic, environmental, social, and governance trade-offs between deep-sea mining and terrestrial mining.
AI-Assisted Teams Outperform AI-Led Teams but Not Human-Only Teams in Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science
With Large Language Models (LLMs) becoming widespread, this study tests whether artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT could help social scientists check if published research findings can be reproduced.
Reproducibility and Robustness of Economics and Political Science Research
This article evaluates whether published findings in economics and political science can be independently replicated and remain consistent under reanalysis.
Wisdom/Madness of Crowds and Perils of Point Forecasts
This paper examines the reliability of expert forecasting methods, using simulated data to show that when samples from fat-tailed distributions are averaged, the results may not converge.
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