Research

Select Research Projects in Progress 

Managerial Advocacy for and Intent to Employ AI versus Humans (with Jacob Dominski, Christopher Hoy, Cassandra Merritt).

Public Support for Techno-Governance: What Would Drive People to Support AI use in Government? (with Jacob Dominski and Cassandra Merritt).

Equalizer or Divider? The Geography of AI’s Impact (with Cassandra Merritt).

Tasking Energy: Human vs. AI Energy Consumption Across Occupations.

Working Papers

Advancing AI Capabilities and Evolving Labor Outcomes (with Jacob Dominski). 

Racial Disparities in Police-Algorithm Interactions: Evidence from Rearrest Predictions. CESIfo Working Paper No. 11877

Publications

Can AI Help Reduce Human Bias? Proceedings of Fourth European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR. 2025.

Do Multimodal Large Language Models Understand Welding? (with Nitesh Chawla, Grigorii Khvatskii, Corey Angst, Maria Gibbs, Robert Landers). Information Fusion. 2025.

Robots and Labor in Nursing Homes (with Karen Eggleston and Toshiaki Iizuka).  Labour Economics. 2025. NBER Working Paper 33116.

US-China Tech Decoupling Increases Willingness to Share Personal Data in China (with Benjamin Larsen and Jingxin Wu). Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 2025.

University Education Reform and Entrepreneurship Among Alumni (with Chuck Eesley, Xiaocong Tian, and Delin Yang), Management and Organization Review. 2025.

Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI (with Francisco Eiras, Aleksandar Petro, Jakob Forester et al.). Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning 2024.

Measuring Urban Quality and Change Through the Detection of Physical Attributes of Decay (with Andrea Vallebueno). Scientific Reports. 2023. Replication Codes.

The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs (with John Chung). ILR Review. 2023.

Does Information About AI Regulation Change Manager Evaluation of Ethical Concerns and Intent to Adopt AI? (with Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Ben Larsen, and Michael Webb). Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization. 2024.

Optimizing Whose Engagement? Beliefs and Protest Participation of Social Media Users in South Korea. AI and Ethics. 2023.

In Institutions We Trust? Trust in Government and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Intention (with Chuck Eesley). Organization Science. 2023.

When Does AI Pay Off? AI-Adoption Intensity, Complementary Investments, and R&D Strategy (with Taekyun Kim, Sukwoong Choi, and Wonjoon Kim). Technovation. 2022, vol 118. 

Do University Entrepreneurship Programs Promote Entrepreneurship? (with Chuck Eesley). Strategic Management Journal, 2021. 

Modern Management and the Demand for Technical Skill. Labour Economics, 2018, 55:328-343. (ungated version).

Government Guaranteed Small Business Loans and Regional Growth. Journal of Business Venturing, 2018, 33(1):70-83. (ungated version).

International Isolation and Regional Inequality: Evidence from Sanctions on North Korea. Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 103:34-51. (ungated version). 

Information Technology in the Property Market (with Yuya Sasaki). Information Economics and Policy, 2018, 44:1-7. 

The Persistence of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Immigrants (with Chuck Eesley). Research Policy, 2018. (ungated version).

Political Influence and Trade Uncertainty: Evidence from Sanction Threats and Impositions (with Seung Hoon Lee). Economics Bulletin, 2018, 38(1): 367-372.

Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses, and Economic Growth in Cities. Journal of Economic Geography, 2017, 17(2). (ungated version). Winner of Urban Land Institute Prize for best paper published in Journal of Economic Geography in 2017. ULI announcement. JoEG announcement.

Staffing Subsidies and the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes (with Andrew Foster), Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 41: 133-147. (ungated version). Online Appendix to the paper.

Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery: Spending Your Donations (with Vernon Henderson), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015, 63(4). Media: FSI Stanford News. (NBER Working Paper 17707).

School Districting and the Origins of Residential Land Price Inequality, Journal of Housing Economics, 2015, 28: 1-17. (ungated version).

Exams, Districts, and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from South Korea, Labour Economics, 2014, 29: 62-71. (ungated version).

Do Medicaid Wage Pass-through Payments Increase Nursing Home Staffing? (with Z. Feng, S. Kuo, O. Intrator, A. Foster, and V. Mor), Health Services Research, 2010, 45(3): 728-747.

Permanent Working Papers

Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI (with Francisco Eiras, Aleksandar Petro, Jakob Forester et al.) arXiv:2405.08597v2.

Robots and Labor in the Service Sector: Evidence from Nursing Homes (with Karen Eggleston and Toshiaki Iizuka).  NBER Working Paper 28322.