. Using a difference-in-differences design, we show that adopting a robot drives prostate cancer patients to the hospital. To …

, robot adoption by firms endogenously responds to labor scarcity, alleviating potential displacement of existing workers …

Using several sources, we construct a data set of robot purchases by French manufacturing firms and study the firm …-level implications of robot adoption. Out of 55,390 firms in our sample, 598 have adopted robots between 2010 and 2015, but these firms … account for 20% of manufacturing employment and value added. Consistent with theory, robot adopters experience significant …

Increased use of robots has roused concern about how robots and other new technologies change the world of work. Using … that an additional robot reduces employment and wages in an industry by roughly as much as an additional 2 to 3 workers and …

valued? We provide a general theory of optimal technology regulation in a second best world, with rich heterogeneity across … valued in the same way as in a first best world …

from Colombia for cheaper robot-made U.S. products. We use employer-employee matched data from the Colombian social …

staffing in Japanese nursing homes, using geographic variation in robot subsidies as an instrumental variable. We find that … robot adoption increases employment by augmenting the number of care workers and nurses on flexible employment contracts …, and decreases difficulty in staff retention. Robot adoption also reduces the monthly wages of regular nurses, consistent …