3 papers
cs.LG2024
Estimating Wage Disparities Using Foundation Models
Keyon Vafa, Susan Athey, David M. Blei
The rise of foundation models marks a paradigm shift in machine learning: instead of training specialized models from scratch, foundation models are first trained on massive datase…
cs.LG2024
LABOR-LLM: Language-Based Occupational Representations with Large Language Models
Susan Athey, Herman Brunborg, Tianyu Du +2
This paper builds an empirical model that predicts a worker's next occupation as a function of the worker's occupational history. Because histories are sequences of occupations, th…
econ.GN2024
The Value of Non-Traditional Credentials in the Labor Market
Susan Athey, Emil Palikot
Workers without formal credentials experience substantially lower employment rates than their credentialed counterparts, but the extent to which information frictions contribute to…