Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illinois, USA
Joined December 2008
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New pre-doc positions: @arpitrage and I are hiring for two pre-docs, one to start ASAP and one to start next Fall, to help expand our work using LLMs to measure and study zoning codes in the US.
Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176538
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Yes, an error of 0.05 SD (the median absolute error of AI forecasts) could be meaningful for some treatments and outcomes, but most of the time do we really care about such small differences?
Maybe sometimes - or maybe experiments yield more generalizable knowledge which compounds - but also I would personally worry if I was running a study whose results could be forecast nearly perfectly. I hope this study can serve as a bit of a kick in the pants to be more ambitious. 7/
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Excited to share this new work on mapping economic theory with agentic AI!
The astonishing rise in AI math capability can help us understand formal models in economics.
We do it by using LLM agents to represent theory papers as graphs.
See thread by @andreacicca_ here:
AI is increasingly used to find errors in research. But which ones actually matter and deserve our attention?
Our new paper with @ellliottt and @sergallet maps the logic of economic models into claim graphs to assess how much an error changes their conclusions.
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Bad News: I came back from paternity leave to a layoff.
Good News: I can sell work, join your remote team, and show off what I can build again.
Cool Thing I've Built: A home Jarvis that orchestrates agentic coding projects from idea through to a fully finished repo.
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#QJE Nov 2026, #1, “The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States,” by Vivalt, Rhodes, Bartik, Broockman, Krause, and Miller: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjag042
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🚨 Public good alert: I put together a list of 100+ free datasets for social science research, spanning a large number of topics.
I hope it's useful for students, researchers, and anyone looking for interesting data to explore.
Contributions are welcome! github.com/toddrjones/datase…
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This is impressive and may very well be the future. It is much more user-friendly and informative than the traditional PDF with enormous appendices. The review process will need to adapt, but we can find a way. @AEAjournals Here is the link: nobel-prizes.devdatalab.org
Reminder that @arpitrage and I are hiring a predoc at NYU stern starting in Fall 2027.
This is an opportunity to work on a great team building AI tools to understand housing markets better.
Check it out here: apply.interfolio.com/194498
🚨New predoc position!🚨
@AlexBartik and I are hiring a predoc at NYU Stern, starting Fall 2027
You would help us build AI tools to measure zoning rules and study how regulation impacts housing supply
Ideal for AI enthusiasts who want to get a PhD
apply.interfolio.com/194498
AlexBartik retweeted
🚨New predoc position!🚨
@AlexBartik and I are hiring a predoc at NYU Stern, starting Fall 2027
You would help us build AI tools to measure zoning rules and study how regulation impacts housing supply
Ideal for AI enthusiasts who want to get a PhD
apply.interfolio.com/194498
AlexBartik retweeted
Excited to announce Living Science!
Papers have been the de facto unit of knowledge in science. But science is not static and a paper is not meant to be the final destination, especially in empirical research. Empowered by AI agents, we're revisiting influential research as new data, models, and methods arrive, starting with economics.
🧵
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The "AI simulations will replace human subjects research" argument is wrong because they are almost certainly complements to each other rather than substitutes 1/
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I'm super stoked to be speaking at the 2027 Berkeley Culture Connect conference on “Integrating AI while embracing the human element.”
If you have work that speaks to this, please feel free to email or DM me. I'd love to highlight relevant research during my talk :)
AlexBartik retweeted
We studied seven months of Claude Code usage —
for now, success on coding tasks depends little on whether you have a coding background …
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➕➕ New research ➕➕
On the design of agents for markets and markets for agents.
AI agents are increasingly entering markets, acting on behalf of people—
How do we make sure they represent their people well, and that these markets are set up safely and fairly for everyone?
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Looking for postdocs+PhDs to help lead a large-scale study of the effects of long-term AI use, a collaboration between Berkeley+@TransluceAI+others!
Funding+positions available (postdocs/visiting researchers/Transluce affiliations). Please reshare; application in next tweet!
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I know we’re focused on looming AI-driven extinction now, but can you spare a thought for what’s going on with labor demand? I have a new paper about that
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Reminder - submit your papers to SOLE! Keynote speakers
⭐️ @kearney_melissa ⭐️
⭐️ @leah_boustan ⭐️
And presidential lecture by
⭐️ @Econ_Sandy ⭐️
The Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) will hold its 30th Annual Meeting April 30 - May 1 at the Hyatt Regency in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Call for Papers is OPEN. This is a fabulous conference for junior and senior faculty. MORE HERE:
sole-jole.org/upcoming-meeti…
So excited that the public microdata is out for the Open Research Unconditional income Study (ORUS)! 1000 folks were randomly given $1000/month and a 2000 person comparison group received $50/month for 3 years.
Explore it yourself here:
data.openresearchlab.org/
To see what we've learned so far, check out our existing papers:
Employment: academic.oup.com/qje/advance…
Health: alexbartik.com/papers/DoesIn…
Consumption: alexbartik.com/papers/ORUS_C…
Kids: alexbartik.com/papers/ORUS_C…
Intrahousehold: alexbartik.com/papers/Rhodes…
Politics: alexbartik.com/papers/Politi…
We're excited to see what else can be learned from the data. Check it out!
@elizabethrds
@pat_k_krause
@evavivalt
@dbroockman
@smilleralert