The author's work experience and education
are listed on Page 2, or download a
printable résumé.
He is the co-host of the game theory podcast Pod, Paper, Scissors, and has many side projects of varying quality in online repositories at Github.
Also, here is Google's tally.
Key: β» = Recommended favorite
β = Click this icon for the PDF = Document Object Identifier. Click to follow or right-click to copy.
π = This work underwent a peer review process
Technical papers: intellectual property
β» Valuing patents and trademarks in complex production chains Journal of the Knowledge Economy, March 2020. JKEC online.
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Intellectual Property Boxes and the Paradox of Price Discrimination Center for Economic Priorities Working Paper, May 2017. Summary, Paper.
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Technical papers: other applications
β» An Analysis of U.S. Domestic Migration via Subset-stable Measures of Administrative Data Working paper, December 2019. SSRN page.
Unemployment Insurance and worker mobility, by Ryan Nunn, Laura Kawano and Ben Klemens Urban/Brookings Tax Policy Center report, February 2018. Brookings summary.
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β» Estimating local poverty measures using satellite images: A pilot application to Central America World Bank Policy Research Paper #7329, June 2015. World Bank WPs.
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Social Influences and Smoking Behavior Brookings Report to the American Legacy Foundation, February 2006. β
A genome-wide association study implicates diacylglycerol kinase eta (DGKH) and several other genes in the etiology of bipolar disorder, by
AE Baum, N Akula, M Cabanero, I Cardona, W Corona, B Klemens, TG Schulze, S Cichon, M Rietschel, MM Nathen, A Georgi, J Schumacher, M Schwarz,
R Abou Jamra, S Hofels, P Propping, J Satagopan, NIMH Genetics Initiative Bipolar Disorder Consortium, SD Detera-Wadleigh, J Hardy, and FJ
McMahon. Molecular Psychiatry, 2008 (13:2), pp 197-207. Link.
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Technical papers: methods
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of Social Science Modeling Scientific American, 7 July 2020. Link.
A Useful Algebraic System of Statistical Models Census Bureau Research Report Series (Statistics), May 2013. Arxiv.
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A Peer-based Model of Fat-tailed Outcomes Arxiv, April 2013. Arxiv page.
β» Mutual Information as a Measure of Intercoder Agreement Journal of Official Statistics, October 2012. R script.
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Tea for Survey Processing United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Conference of European Statisticians, September 2012. β
Finding Optimal Agent-based Models Center on Social and Economic Dynamics Working Paper #49, September 2007. SSRN page.
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An Efficient Network Generation Method: Interpersonal Networks and the Distribution of Links
, December 2005. SSRN page.
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Preferences with a Social Component
, July 2003. β
Dissertation: Information Aggregation California Institute of Technology, May 2003. βπ
When do Ordered Priors Induce Ordered Posteriors?
, September 2002. SSRN page.
Tea for survey processing, with Rolando RodrΓguez
. Link.
Apophenia: a library of statistics functions, focusing on modular, cross-paradigm modeling
. Link.
Writing appendices in LaTeX: a short macro package for writing
theorems in a manner that facilitates moving proofs to an
appendix. CTAN link
An agent-based model of migration and demography: project for ECA region of World Bank.
Live events
Why a monolithic patent law can't be applied to all inventions,
Scholar.social Summer School, August 2020.Presentation video
Co-organizer, Agent-Based Models for Exploring Public Policy Planning,
Lorentz Center at University of Leiden, July 2019.Event page
Transforming and Combining Statistical Models,
Data Science DC @ George Washington University, August 2014.PDF slides, MP3 audio
A Simulation of Nonresponse and Imputation,
2013--14 Program on Computational Methods in Social Sciences (CMSS), August 2013.Event agenda, PDF slides
Designing a cross-paradigm modeling framework.
Neyman Seminar at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Statistics 8 May 2013; invited talk at Stanford University Department of Statistics 14 May 2013, PDF slides.
Appearance in Patent Absurdity, a documentary, 2010.Watch here
Co-producer and speaker for Brookings Conference, "The Limits of Abstract Patents in an Intangible Economy", January 2009.Brookings conference site, my PDF slides
Poster: DNA Pooling for Whole-Genome Association
Studies with Illumina Infinium Assays, by
Amber E. Baum, Nirmala Akula, Ben Klemens, Imer Cardona, Winston Corona,
Andrew Singleton, John Hardy, Sevilla Detera-Wadleigh, Francis J. McMahon, October 2006.PPT, PDF
The Kojo Nnamdi Show: "The Legal Battle over Software" (National Public Radio discussion), January 2006.info, MP3
Producer and moderator for "Software and Law: Is Regulation Fostering or Inhibiting Innovation?" (Brookings panel), December 2005.transcript
Graduate class on networks and information (Johns Hopkins Econ dept), February-May 2005.reading list and notes
Fun
β» An Inclusive, Cyberpunk Future Is In the Cards, by Ben Klemens and Liz Landau WIRED, January 2021. Link.
β»Carbondale, a game of building a local social and business network, designed for two standard decks of cards.
π§ Proposal for a falafel emoji, with Emojination. Accepted 2018, released as part of Unicode 12 in early 2019.
Bamboo Harvest, a game of building and resource management.
Cowsweeper: a variant of Minesweeper, which can be
played online
(if you are using a Java-enabled browser) or be
downloaded
and played on a PalmOS device, if you can still find one. [Available from many
other sources.]