3 papers
cs.CY2026
Validating LLMs in social science: Epistemic threats and emerging norms
Meera Desai, Dallas Card, Abigail Z. Jacobs
Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping social science methodology. Researchers increasingly prompt language models to generate quantitative measurements of social concepts, for…
econ.GN2026
The Costs of Early-career Disciplinary Pivots: Evidence from Ph.D. Admissions
Sidney Xiang, Nicholas David, Dallas Card +3
Scientific innovation often comes from researchers who pivot across disciplines. However, prior work found that established researchers face productivity penalties when pivoting. H…
cs.CL2025
Mapping the Podcast Ecosystem with the Structured Podcast Research Corpus
Benjamin Litterer, David Jurgens, Dallas Card
Podcasts provide highly diverse content to a massive listener base through a unique on-demand modality. However, limited data has prevented large-scale computational analysis of th…