Technological change, from the advent of robots to expanded trade opportunities, tends to create winners and losers … be implemented using evidence on the distributional impact of new technologies, such as robots and trade. Our second … on robots and trade, the magnitude of these taxes may decrease as the process of automation and globalization deepens and …

Do robots raise or lower economic well-being? On the one hand, they raise output and bring more goods and services into …

characterize the optimal tax system in this model. We find that it is optimal to tax robots while the current generations of …

As robots and other computer-assisted technologies take over tasks previously performed by labor, there is increasing … 2007 on US local labor markets. Using a model in which robots compete against human labor in the production of different … tasks, we show that robots may reduce employment and wages, and that the local labor market effects of robots can be …

-level implications of robot adoption. Out of 55,390 firms in our sample, 598 have adopted robots between 2010 and 2015, but these firms … further document that the impact of robots on overall labor share is greater than their firm-level effects because robot …

years, questions have arisen about whether its services help or harm consumers. In response, states have increasingly … consumers. On balance, our results also seem to support the relevance of theories of occupational licensing that stress the …