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AI and Economic Measurement
Organized by Erik Brynjolfsson and Karen Dynan Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation May 7, 2026 SIEPR, Stanford University, Koret-Taube Conference Center, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA |
| Thursday, May 7 | |
| 8:15 am |
Continental Breakfast
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| 8:45 am |
Welcome
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| 9:00 am |
Labor Markets and Skills |
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Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations |
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What Work Does Generative AI Do? |
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Voice AI in Firms: A Natural Field Experiment on Automated Job Interviews
Discussant:
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto |
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| 10:30 am |
Break
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| 10:45 am |
LLM Agents for Economic Research |
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General Social Agents |
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Interpreting and Steering LLM Agents for Social Simulations |
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GPT As A Measurement Tool
Discussant:
Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University |
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| 12:15 pm |
Lunch
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| 1:15 pm |
Lightning Round |
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Leveraging LLMs to Improve Experimental Design: A Generative Stratification Approach |
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Life Sequence Transformer: Generative Modelling of Socio-Economic Trajectories from Administrative Data |
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Using Large Language Models to Measure U.S. Retirement Plan Design at Scale: Methods and Evidence |
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The Geopolitical Determinant of Economic Growth, 1960 - 2024 |
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Balancing Policy Objectives in Social Security Reform Using Hierarchical Weighted Multi-voting and Monte Carlo Mixed Integer Goal Programming |
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A Test of Lookahead Bias in LLM Forecasts |
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Inflation Uncertainty: Measurement, Causes, and Consequences |
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The Costs of Housing Regulation: Evidence From Generative Regulatory Measurement |
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Artificial Intelligence in the Office and the Factory: Evidence from Administrative Software Registry Data |
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ChatMacro: Evaluating Inflation Forecasts of Generative AI |
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| 2:00 pm |
Break
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| 2:15 pm |
AI, Productivity and Economic Value |
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Is Software Eating the World? Measuring the Progress and Diffusion of AI |
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The Microstructure of AI Diffusion: Evidence from Firms, Business Functions, and Worker Tasks |
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The Household Impact of Generative AI: Evidence from Internet Browsing Behavior |
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| 3:45 pm |
Break
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| 4:00 pm |
Panel - TBA |
| 5:00 pm |
Closing Remarks
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| 6:00 pm |
Conference Dinner
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