Top econometricians publish paper co-written with LLMs — and document how
RexDouglass · x · 2026-10-28
Isaiah Andrews and Anna Mikusheva released an arXiv paper (2610.35831) on the admissibility of 2SLS with weak instruments, work they've done since 2019. Alongside the research, they openly document how they — or rather their LLMs — wrote the paper, and reflect on what this means for econometrics: a rare, high-profile account of deep LLM involvement in serious academic work.
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