3 papers
econ.GN2025
Automation Experiments and Inequality
Seth Benzell, Kyle Myers
An increasingly large number of experiments study the labor productivity effects of automation technologies such as generative algorithms. A popular question in these experiments r…
cs.HC2025
AI Behavioral Science: A Framework and Agenda
Matthew O. Jackson, Qiaozhu Me, Stephanie W. Wang +16
We discuss the challenges and opportunities present in the rapidly emerging area of ``AI Behavioral Science.'' We frame it via three subfields. First, as AI becomes ubiquitous and…
econ.GN2025
Measuring Social Media Network Effects
Sinan Aral, Seth G Benzell, Avinash Collis +1
Network effects -- the utility gains from additional consumers of a good -- are widely regarded as critical to the digital economy. Yet recent theory and evidence suggest that loca…