Research Interests
Economics of Information, Information Systems, IT and Labor Market, Industrial Organization
Publication
"Human Capital Acquisition in Response to Data Breaches" (MIS Quarterly Volume 49 Issue 1, March 2025) with Sarah Bana, Erik Brynjolfsson, Wang Jin, and Sebastian Steffen
Media Appearance: Technology Academics Policy
Presentations: CIST 2020, Stanford 2020, WISE 2021, ASSA 2022, WEIS 2022
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"Labor Market Polarization in Britain and Germany: A Cross-national Comparison Using Longitudinal Household Data" (Labour Economics Volume 65, August 2020)
Working Papers
​“AI’s Job Shakeup: Analyzing the Uneven Impact of AI Adoption on Labor Demand” with Bin Gu and Mohammad Soltanieh-ha
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"Information Technology, Firm Size, and Industrial Concentration" with Erik Brynjolfsson and Wang Jin.
Media Appearance: ProMarket at the University of Chicago
Presentations: ASSA 2020, Stanford 2021, Boston University 2022, IIOC 2022, CIST 2022, NBER Productivity 2022
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“The Intangible Divide: Why do so few firms invest in innovation?” SSRN with James Bessen
Presentations: Boston University 2023 & 2024, CIST 2023, NBER Productivity 2024, MIT 2024, IIOC 2024, CAED 2024, GEIRC 2024, ASSA 2025
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“The Rise of Creative Destruction: Technological Rivalry, Productivity, and Firm Growth” with Yoshiki Ando and James Bessen
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“Using Massive Online Experiments to Develop New Measures Of Non-Market Production:
Implications For GDP” with Erik Brynjolfsson and David Nguyen.
Presentation: CODE 2022 (Poster Slam Slides), New Measures of the Economy Workshop 2024
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"Power Law Distribution of Firm Sizes and the Information Technology" with Erik Brynjolfsson and Wang Jin
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"Union Wage and Job Loss: A Cross-national Comparison" SSRN.
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"A Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Job Displacement" with Kenneth Couch (Draft Available Upon Request)
Work in Progress
"Software Investment, Digital Transformation, and Data Breaches" with Wang Jin and Sebastian Steffen
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​“Understanding Human Needs to Develop Human-Centered AI Benchmarks for Household
Activities” with Erik Brynjolfsson, Feifei Li, David Nguyen, Jiajun Wu, and Ruohan Zhang
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“Foreign IT Workers and Firms’ Investment in IT” with Wang Jin and Che-wei Liu
"How Do High Skilled Immigrants Affect the Domestic Labor Market" with Richard Freeman
Research Experience
Research Assistant for Shaun M. Dougherty, University of Connecticut
2017 - 2018