Raffaella Sadun
@raffasadun
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Professor at @Harvardhbs, Affiliated with @nberpubs, @CEP_LSE, @cepr_org and @AriadneLabs. Grande Ufficiale OMRI. [email protected] [email protected]
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Joined May 2011
Yesterday, I gave the keynote address at the Bank of Spain’s Economics of Artificial Intelligence conference on “Deep Learning in Economics: A Geometric Interpretation.” The central point of my talk was that deep learning succeeds in economics because it offers a constructive
Data often lie on a low-dimensional manifold embedded in a high-dimensional space. But these manifolds are often highly non-linear, making linear dimensionality reduction methods like PCA insufficient. This has motivated the development of non-linear dimensionality reduction.
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Live today from Cambridge, MA! Org. Econ. @nberpubs Working Group (program and livestream below). Organized by @raffasadun and @andreapratnyc Papers by @joshgans, @I_Am_NickBloom, and @erikbryn (among many others) I’ll also be talking about my latest paper: Automation, AI,
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Digital, Data, and Design Institute - Digital Reskilling Lab - The Digital Reskilling Lab, led by Professors Raffaella Sadun and Jorge Tamayo, is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. The mission of the Digital ... -
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The Digital Reskilling Lab, led by Professors Raffaella Sadun and Jorge Tamayo, is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. The mission of the Digital Reskilling Lab is to conduct research on workplace...
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Looking forward to the Organizational Economics Working Group meeting on November 13 and 14! Check out the program below, all sessions will be streamed live on youtube. https://t.co/MiDp7a5mYf
The call for papers for the next Organizational Economics Working Group is up! We will meet in Cambridge, MA on November 13 and 14 2025. Please submit your paper by September 1st 2025 at: https://t.co/XUEE6gt1Sl
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Just two more days until one of my favorite conferences of the year!
The call for papers for the next Organizational Economics Working Group is up! We will meet in Cambridge, MA on November 13 and 14 2025. Please submit your paper by September 1st 2025 at: https://t.co/XUEE6gt1Sl
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Italy is experiencing a perfect storm of antisemitism right now, according to Benjamin Birely. What can the rest of the Diaspora learn? Listen to the full Call Me Back episode here: https://t.co/tVsuZmwSjV
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Thrilled that my Minimalist Market Design monograph is forthcoming in the Econometric Society Monograph Series. The revised and much expanded version is now available on arXiv: https://t.co/au0wAOwWEo This thread unpacks the framework — scholarly, reflective, personal. (1/20)
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Everyone is worried about jobs being automated away. Respectfully, that's not our problem. Worry about within-job change. 2.6 billion workers have to reskill on 10-15% of their job, in flight. And default AI use makes novices more optional. That's our trillion-dollar problem.
Can AI automate jobs? We created the Remote Labor Index to test AI’s ability to automate hundreds of long, real-world, economically valuable projects from remote work platforms. While AIs are smart, they are not yet that useful: the current automation rate is less than 3%.
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Grazie agli amici della @lavoceinfo per avermi ospitato!
🏢 In Italia il 77 per cento delle imprese ha meno di 5 dipendenti. Una struttura unica in Europa che segna il nostro sistema produttivo. Ne parliamo con @raffasadun (Harvard Business School) in Lavoce in mezz’ora. 🎧
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Following my annual tradition: the Nobel puts a spotlight on an idea or field of work that was developed by many scholars. 1-3 people are picked to represent it, but there are another 10-20 people without whose work the Nobel would not have gone to this field. So, without taking
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Highly recommend this piece by @bfjo from the recent NBER transformative AI conference out in Palo Alto. Q: how much do bottlenecks matter for AI affecting R&D, and more importantly, how can we estimate from *existing data* the link between those bottlenecks and growth.
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Thanks @_LukasFreund_ for inviting me--really fantastic workshop and lots of very relevant and exciting work on the Economics and AI.
Very much looking forward to our @BostonCollege workshop on *The Macro & Labor Market Consequences of AI* this Friday! Featuring🎙️by Pascual Restrepo, @lukasfmann, @DanialLashkari, Jaromir Nosal, @AndersPHumlum, @L_Schmidt_Econ & a Keynote by @raffasadun.
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FYI: New Working paper on beliefs and firm training: @michelebattisti @MartaGolin @HaegeleIngrid @SydneeCaldwell @HelkeSeitz @UhlendorffA @ProfDavidDeming @andreaneyran @raffasadun @d_fouarge @chr_langer @VLindlacher
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A great summary of the research behind the Nobel prize winners today. This is the literature that brought me to economics and motivates lots of my work even today. The cherry on top is to see the amazing Philippe Aghion being celebrated and recognized for his brilliance.
🚨 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt 🚨 "for having explained innovation-driven economic growht" The best prize in years!
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I have a new paper with Luis Rayo on a key, simple question: will AI end careers as we know them? Link below. We all experience AIs usefulness every day: AI writing code, drafting legal memos, and analyzing spreadsheets. AI can already do many of the tasks that young people
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📢Our CESifo Conference on Economics of Education is about to start!🤩 This will be so exciting!!!🥳 🔗 https://t.co/Lby6JO69qd
@EricHanushek @raffasadun @singhabhi @Lnavarrosola @jmontalbancas @Sandra_McNally @turnersarahe @MeulenSimon @uZoelitz @anaisfabre_econ …
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The deadline to submit papers to the @nberpubs Org Econ workshop is approaching! Send us your best work by Sept 1st, details below: 👇
The call for papers for the next Organizational Economics Working Group is up! We will meet in Cambridge, MA on November 13 and 14 2025. Please submit your paper by September 1st 2025 at: https://t.co/XUEE6gt1Sl
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This working paper looks really cool. "The Education-Innovation Gap" 🧵🧵🧵
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Every serious economist should speak out in defense of maintaining non-partisan, professional statistical agencies in the US.
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