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The behavioral economics of artificial intelligence : lessons from experiments with computer players

March, Christoph - 2019 - This version: October 21, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to pervade the economic and social life rendering strategic interactions with artificial agents more and more common. At the same time, experimental economic research has increasingly employed computer players to advance our understanding of strategic...

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The march of the techies : technology, trade, and job polarization in France, 1994-2007

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2016

Using administrative employee-firm-level data on the entire private sector from 1994 to 2007, we show that the labor market in France has polarized: employment shares of high and low wage occupations have grown, while middle wage occupations have shrunk. During the same period, the share of...

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Technology adoption in education : usage, spillovers and student achievement

Bergman, Peter - 2016

Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted by their end users and are effective in practice. This paper studies the adoption, diffusion, and effects of one type of technology that is increasingly ubiquitous:...

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Two-sided platforms and biases in technology adoption

Choi, Jay Pil; Jeon, Doh-Shin - 2020

We investigate the relationship between market structure and platforms' incentives to adopt technological innovations in two-sided markets, where platforms may find it optimal to charge zero price on the consumer side and to extract surplus on the advertising side. We consider innovations that...

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Do pilot and demonstration projects work?

Blackburn, Christopher J.; Flowers, Mallory E.; … - 2018

Pilot and demonstration (P&D) projects are commonly deployed to catalyze early adoption of technology, but are poorly understood in terms of mechanism and impact. We conceptually distinguish unique functions of pilots and demonstrations, then examine whether they accelerate green building...

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The impact of defaults on technology adoption, and its underappreciation by policymakers

Bergman, Peter; Rogers, Todd - 2017

We conduct an experiment to understand how enrollment defaults affect the take up and impact of an education technology. We show that a standard and simplified opt-in process induce low take up. Automatically enrolling parents increases adoption significantly and improves student achievement....

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Epidemic exposure, fintech adoption, and the digital divide

Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021

We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage within and across countries and if so who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250,000 individuals in 140 countries, merging them with...

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Automation and employment over the technology life cycle : evidence from European regions

Jaccoud, Florencia; Petit, Fabien; Ciarli, Tommaso; … - 2024

This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot …

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Robots, marriageable men, family, and fertility

Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021

participation declined, reducing the relative economic stature of men. Regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced …

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Industrial robots, workers' safety, and health

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - 2022

establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot … to robot penetration experience a significant increase in drug- or alcohol-related deaths and mental health problems …. Employing longitudinal data from Germany, we exploit within-individual changes in robot exposure and document that a one …

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