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The most exciting time to be a social scientist, Stanford Report, April 24, 2026.
AI challenges core assumptions in education, Stanford Accelerator for Learning, April 11, 2026.
Global AI models don't customize enough; India has a big opportunity: Professor Susan Athey December 22, 2025
Job transition with AI will not be as dramatic as feared: Susan Athey December 22, 2025
Opportunities abound in India to customize AI: Stanford professor Susan Athey December 21, 2025
Designing Public Policy for Our AI Future November 20, 2025
Silver Award for Adapting to Massive Technological Change Podcast Episode, October 1, 2025
The Signal Award awards that podcasts examine the business world including entrepreneurship, start-ups and workplace culture.
Big Ideas from Stanford GSB Faculty, September 30, 2025
Just a few of the influential findings and enduring discoveries made by Stanford GSB researchers
The Future of the Innovation Economy, September 26, 2025
Three experts spanning artificial intelligence and economics explore the implications of AI and how it could transform creativity, jobs, education, and public policy through the rapidly evolving “innovation economy.”
2025, Economics of Transformative AI Workshop, "Artificial Intelligence, Competition, and Welfare September 18, 2025
A Century of Impact, September 17, 2025
In this Centennial podcast episode, Stanford GSB faculty reflect on the ideas, values, and community that have defined the school.
New Stanford study: Sharing Coursera micro-credentials on professional networking platforms can significantly improve learner employment outcomes., August 13, 2025
The new paper, “The Value of Non-Traditional Credentials in the Labor Market”, reports results from a randomized experiment, finding that sharing micro-credentials as proof of skills acquisition increases the chance of a learner getting a new job. These effects are particularly strong for learners who lack traditional credentials, do not have relevant work experience, or are based in emerging markets.
How Uber Steers Its Drivers Toward Better Performance, August 06, 2025
New research finds that the app’s ratings and incentive system made its drivers in Chicago as safe and reliable as taxi drivers.
G20 Side Event-The implications of artificial intelligence on the organisation of industry and work July 16, 2025
Designing AI That Keeps Human Decision-Makers in Mind, May 27, 2025
A complementary approach to AI aims to build tools that encourage collaboration rather than bypass human input.
Scaling Solutions to Bridge the Gender Labor Gap | Future of Work for Women Summit May 17, 2025
How an Economist’s Application of Machine Learning to Target Nudges Applies to Precision Medicine, May 16, 2025
This conversation is part of a series of interviews in which JAMA Network editors and expert guests explore issues surrounding the rapidly evolving intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and medicine.
AAAI2025 invited talk round-up 1: labour economics, and reasoning about spatial information., April 7, 2025
Predicting Career Transitions and Estimating Wage Disparities Using Foundation Models Can Large Language Models Reason about Spatial Information?
Discussion with Professor Susan Athey April 17, 2025
Stanford Conference: Computational Antitrust in 2030 April 13, 2025
What Happens When Technology Rewrites the Rules, April 02, 2025
Susan Athey thinks the world can effectively respond to AI’s massive impact on jobs, businesses, and the economy — if we don’t make any “unforced errors.”
15th Annual Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture with Susan Athey March 10, 2025
Predicting Career Transitions and Estimating Wage Disparities Using Foundation Models., February 27, 2025
D1 Keynote Susan Athey | DCI 2nd Annual Conference February 12, 2025
BIG.AI@MIT 2024: "A Leading Role for Research in Analyzing the Gains and Harms of GenAI December 11, 2024
New Research Could Help Nonprofits Attract Millions of Online Donors, November 18, 2024
-Massive experiments with PayPal users show that small tweaks to a charitable ask can boost giving.
Stanford GSB Professor Susan Athey Receives the R.K. Cho Award, October 16, 2024
The award recognizes her work at the intersection of technology and economics.
Susan Athey - The Economics of Technology Professor, September 3, 2024
AI Competition Concerns with Prof. Susan Athey, Former U.S. DOJ Antitrust Division Chief Economist May 30, 2024
Economics & AI” Fireside Chat: Professor Susan Athey and Dean Jon Levin May 16, 2024
A/B Testing Gets an Upgrade for the Digital Age, Insights by Stanford Business, May 01, 2024
Future of Work: AI, Pivot Podcast, April 03, 2024
Night Class: Students Get Up-Close Look at Faculty Research Projects, School News and History, February 08, 2024
A.I. Can Help “Personalize” Policies to Reach the Right People, Insights by Stanford Business, January 22, 2024
Presidential Address, ASSA 2024, January 06, 2024
An Interview with Susan Athey, Founding Director of the Golub Capital Social Impact Lab at Stanford, Golub Capital, January 05, 2024
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Bulletin, YoungStats Interviews Susan Athey, January 01, 2024
Immigrant Nobel Prize Laureates, Nobel Laureates in Economics: International Collaboration and Social Impact, December 19, 2023
Tech increases access to contraceptives in Cameroon, Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast, November 21, 2023
Capitol Gains: GSB Professors Share Their Expertise in DC and Beyond | Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, October 25, 2023
Is Your Business Ready to Jump Into A.I.? Read This First. | Stanford Graduate School of Business Stanford Graduate School of Business, October 25, 2023
Responsible AI at the company level | Fortune, Fortune, October 18, 2023
Machine-learning technique identifies people who would benefit most from treatment to reduce future cardiovascular disease risk, UCLA Health, April 13, 2023
A Novel Strategy for Fighting Discrimination on Online Platforms, Kellogg Insight, March 1, 2023
A low-cost fix for tech’s diversity problem, Stanford SIEPR, February 9, 2023
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated, Harvard Business School, February 10, 2023
As carbon removal gains traction, economists imagine a new market to save the planet, NPR.org, January 11, 2022
Cell Phone Data Adds New Detail to Our Picture of Urban Segregation, Insights by Stanford Business, March 11, 2022
The economic case for federal investment in COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics remains strong, Brookings, April 1, 2022
Federal banking agencies trying to ensure AI, ML benefit most rather than the few, Federal News Network, April 28, 2022
Technology Economist Susan Athey Adds DOJ Role to Her Multidimensional Career, HAI Stanford University, July 7, 2022
Congregation 2022 – 06 July – Morning Ceremony, London Business School, July 6, 2022
Pioneering Tech Economist Susan Athey Joins Federal Antitrust Team, Stanford Graduate School of Business, July 7, 2022
Interview with Susan Athey, Professor at Stanford, President of AEA, Scott Cunningham, June 16, 2022
How Will the Digital Markets Act Regulate Big Tech?, ProMarket, January 11, 2021
Designing and Analyzing Behavioral Experiments with Machine Learning, BCFG March 8, 2021
We Can Use Machine Learning to Make Better Decisions: World of DaaS interview with Stanford professor of economics, Susan Athey, Safe Graph, July 30, 2021
Women in Economics, IMF Blog, August 6, 2021
Designing Markets for Faster, Better Vaccines, Insights by Stanford Business, October 19, 2021
“Artificial Intelligence for Social Good,” with Professor Susan Athey, Stanford Graduate School of Business, October 21, 2021
Agile Discovery and Innovation:, Stanford Medicine, November 19, 2021
Opinion | Advance Market Commitments Worked for Vaccines. They Could Work for Carbon Removal, Too. Politico, December 2021
Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities, Science Magazine, August 28, 2020
Putting Together a Search Party for Better Covid-19 Treatments, August 13, 2020
Generic Drug Repurposing for COVID-19 and Beyond, Boston University, Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy, July 17, 2020
Tim Harford: can the pandemic help us fix our technology problem?, Financial Times, June 10, 2020
Create a health impact fund to spur development and equitable use of a Covid-19 vaccine, StatNews, June 3, 2020
Three Big Ideas, NPR | KQED, May 27, 2020
Preventing ‘Cytokine Storm’ May Ease Severe COVID-19 Symptoms, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, May 20, 2020
Everyone Wins from Vaccine Cooperation, Project Syndicate, May 14, 2020
Experts’ 7 best ideas on how to beat Covid-19 and save the economy, VOX, May 13, 2020
Interview with Susan Athey Coronavirus Pandemic, MSNBC, May, 2020
In the Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, We Must Go Big. Really, Really Big., The New York Times | Opinion, May 4, 2020
How to practice social distancing while helping the economy, Washington Post, March 16, 2020
Bringing an Economist’s Perspective to Data Science, Women in Data Science (WiDS), January 16, 2020
HAI 2019 Fall Conference: AI and the Economy, with Susan Athey and Erik Brynjolfsson, The Stanford Daily, October 28, 2019
“AI in 10 minutes” Interview from SNS Tylösand Summit, October 14. 2019
Economist as Engineer, IMF: F&D Article, June 2019
Tech: Economists Wanted, AEA Reseach Highlights, March 15, 2019
Machine Learning and Economics, TNIT News, February 2019
Why Tech Companies Hire So Many Economists, HBR, February 12, 2019
Artificial Intelligence: Separating the Hype from Reality, Fortune, January 22, 2019
5 Game-Changing Papers From This Year’s Largest Gathering of Economists, Yahoo! Finance, January 8, 2019
AI and the Future of Work, The Stanford AI Lab Blog, December 20, 2018
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try ‘Digitization Economist’, HBS Working Knowledge, October 29, 2018
Reshaping Markets to Solve Poverty and Inequality, Stanford GSB, October 10, 2018
Susan Athey: Why business leaders shouldn’t have blind faith in AI, Forbes India (from Stanford Business Insights), September 10, 2018
Fixing big data’s blind spot, Forbes India, June 8, 2018
Bitcoin: The Past, Present and Future, Bloomberg, April 26, 2018
Is it possible to be too data driven?, Bangkok Post, February 21, 2018
Can Amazon Go help the unbanked go digital?, Engadget, January 31, 2018
Susan Athey: Applying Machine Learning to the Economy, Stanford GSB News, January 29, 2018
Here’s what people get wrong when debating automation: Stanford professor, Yahoo News, November 25, 2017
We say we want data privacy—then researchers put free pizza in front of us, Quartz, October 11, 2017
Pizza over privacy?, Stanford News, August 3, 2017
Machine Learning for Policy Analysis, The Wonk Podcast, June 2017
Angry Over Zillow’s Home Prices? You Can Win a Prize by Improving Them, The New York Times, May 24, 2017
Interview with Susan Athey – Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize 2016, Toulouse School of Economics, February 2017
Beyond prediction: Using big data for policy problems, Science, February 3, 2017
Featured Economist, STEM Gems Book, 2016
Susan Athey on Machine Learning, Big Data, and Causation, Library of Economics and Liberty, September 12, 2016
Artificial Intelligence: The Economic and Policy Implications , Technology Policy Institute, September 12, 2016
Can business schools prepare students for a 70-year career?, Financial Times, September 8, 2016
Simulating Business Success, ANSYS Dimensions Magazine, Summer 2016
Designing Online Marketplaces, Programmatic I/O San Francisco, AdExchanger, April 14, 2016
How Academia Is Shaping Ad Tech And Platform Business Models, AdExchanger, April 6, 2016
Why do Technology Companies Hire Economists, Forbes, January 27, 2016
What Will The Impact of Machine Learning Be On Economists?, Forbes, January 27, 2016
Designing Online Advertising Markets, UC Berkeley Simons Institute, Algorithmic Game Theory and Practice, November 16, 2015
CMSA Big Data Interview, Harvard University – CMSA, August 26, 2015
Bitcoin Blockchain Technology In Financial Services: How The Disruption Will Play Out, Forbes, September 14, 2015
Economists and the Real World, Econ Focus, 1st quarter, 2015
The Economics of Bitcoin & Virtual Currency, Stanford GSB, June 18, 2015
Why Managers Must Embrace Big Data or Be Left Behind, The Fast Track, June 1, 2015
Nasdaq Signals Confidence in Bitcoin, Not Just the Blockchain, American Banker, May 19, 2015
Stanford Professor Combines Machine Learning and Econometrics, The Harvard Crimson, April 29, 2015
E-Commmerce Ad rates Paying by Time, Not Clicks, Businessweek, April 26, 2015
Diverse Perspectives Needed To Provide Better Analysis Of Big Data, Becker Friedman Institute, April 10, 2015
Women in Business: Sara Clemens, Chief Strategy Officer, Pandora, Huffington Post, March 31, 2015
Who Will Benefit From Digital Currency? Bitcoin Experiment Gives A Glimpse, Forbes.com, November 26, 2014
Could Digital Currency Make Our Money More Secure?, Forbes.com, November 25, 2014
Susan Athey On How Digital Currency Could Transform Our Lives, Forbes.com, November 24, 2014
Ripple Labs welcomes Susan Athey to its Board of Directors, Ripple Laps, April 8, 2014
Software Piracy: Evidence from Windows 7, Technology Academics Policy, April 3, 2014
If People Use it, Bitcoin Has Intrinsic Value, CoinDesk, April 1, 2014
Why Everybody Who Doesn’t Hate Bitcoin Loves it: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast, Freakonomics, March 27, 2014
Adios, 3-to-5 day money transfers, CNN Money, March 21, 2014
NYDFS Public Hearing Regarding Virtual Currencies, Department of Financial Services, January 28-29. 2014
What 2013 Taught Economists About Infant Mortality and Austerity, Bloomberg, December 31, 2013
Big data can blind us to the long term, Financial Times, December 9, 2013 (Subscription required)
The bitcoin crash of 2013: Don’t you feel silly now?, LA Times, December 7, 2013
Bit By Bit by Bitcoin, OnPoint Radio with Tom Ashbrook, Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Susan Athey: Breaking the Stereotype, Imagine Magazine, Nov/Dec 2013
Susan Athey: How Big Data Changes Business Management, Stanford GSB News, September 20, 2013
Econometricians looked at the news business, and it isn’t pretty, Washington Post, September 17, 2013
GSB Economist uses big data to shake up the Internet, Stanford Daily, August 23, 2013
The Profession: Where are the Women, Econ Focus, August 15, 2013
Stanford Economist Musters Big Data to Shape Web Future, Bloomberg, June 26, 2013
Data scientists in big demand as numbers pile up, newsobserver.com, June 11, 2013
Interview with Susan Athey, minneapolisfed.org, March 6, 2013
President Obama Announces More Key Administrative Posts, whitehouse.gov, April 21, 2011
Tech firms add economists to arsenal, MercuryNews.com, November 22, 2010
Using smarts to bring businesses on top in web searches, Marketplace Tech, October 7, 2010
FTC workshop explores future of journalism, regulation of aggregation, digiphile.wordpress.com, December 2, 2009
Is Qi Lu Microsoft’s search engine savior?, Bloomberg Businessweek, May 28, 2009
Seven notables to get honorary Duke degrees, The Chronicle, Duke University, January 22, 2009
SAT Exam, Taken at Age 13, Can Predict Career Path of Gifted, Bloomberg, September 7, 2007
Back to Basics: Harvard’s Susan Athey Wins the John Bates Clark Medal, The Economist, April 26, 2007
Athey helps determine how uncertainty affects decision-making, Bloomberg, April 25, 2007
Harvard professor wins economics prize, Financial Times, April 23, 2007
Economist who aided Canada wins top honour, The Globe and Mail, April 23, 2007. (correction: the last quote of this article should have read “we’re some” rather than “I’m one.”)
Economist Breaks New Ground As First Female Winner of Top Prize, Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2007
Young Prof Snags Top Ec Medal, The Crimson, April 23, 2007 (correction: Athey is 36, not 37)
Clark Medal to Susan Athey, Economic Principals, April 22, 2007
Clark Medal announcement from the AEA, 2007
Building A Better Auction, Harvard Gazette, November 9, 2006
Stanford’s Athey Named FAS Professor of Economics, Harvard Gazette, February 9, 2006
A Woman in a Man’s Discipline, The Chronicle of Higher Ed, December 2004
2000 Elaine Bennett Award Winner Susan Athey, MIT–As interviewed by Rachel Croson regarding her work, her mentors, and her goals, CSWEP Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2001
The Interview: Susan Athey, The Boston Globe, August 2, 1998
Diversity Adds up to Profits in Economists’ Math Equations,Dallas Morning News, October 1996
A League of Her Own, Palo Alto Weekly, July 1995
The Top Draft Pick in Economics; A Professor-to-Be Coveted by Two Dozen Universities, New York Times, April 1995
What Would the Old Boys Say? New York Times, April 1995