3 papers
cs.CY2026
Estimating time spent on work tasks
Stephane Hatgis-Kessell, Tomás Aguirre, Alexander Wan +1
The task-based framework in economics models occupations as bundles of tasks. It is the standard lens for understanding how technology affects work: a new technology changes the co…
cs.CY2026
Economic Evaluations of Language Models
Alexander Wan, Stephane Hatgis-Kessell, Tomás Aguirre +2
Language models perform economically valuable work, yet they are not currently assessed for how well they perform every economically valuable task. We introduce EconEvals as an ope…
cs.CY2026
The Jagged Global Economy: Frontier AI Unevenly Exposes National Economies
Arul Murugan, Tomás Aguirre, Abhishek Nagaraj +1
Frontier AI's labor-market effects matter to workers, firms, and policymakers, but current evidence generally comes from a handful of high-income economies. The capabilities of fro…