Honesty is perceived as fundamental to societal functioning, motivating education systems worldwide to enforce strict oversight and impose heavy penalties for dishonest behavior. Yet much academic misconduct remains unexposed, and its broader consequences are further obscured by the sorting of individuals into careers based on probity. Applying advanced plagiarism-detection algorithms to half a...
CODECHECK (https://codecheck.org.uk/) provides an approach for independent execution of computations underlying research articles. At one point during the publication process, one reviewer - the codechecker - certifies that they were able to execute relevant parts of a computational workflow. This certificate becomes part of the public record. With over 130 certificates contributed by over 60...
Technological change fuels economic growth, but its impact on wage inequality remains contested. This study presents a unified empirical framework that isolates the effects of new technologies such as automation and AI on the entire wage distribution. We develop a continuous and task-sensitive automation index and propose a distributional counterfactual-based method. Applying the approach to...
