RECENT AWARDS

Schimdt Sciences
AI at Work Grant Program, 2025
Principal Investigator
Project:
Artificial Process Outsourcing

Booth Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence
Seed Grant, 2025
Principal Investigator
Project:
Artificial Process Outsourcing

Google Cloud
Education Research Program Grant, 2025
Principal Investigator
Project:
Artificial Process Outsourcing

Becker-Friedman Institute
Research Program in Behavioral Economics
Research Seed Grant, 2024
Principal Investigator
Project:
Artificial Process Outsourcing

UPCOMING TALKS

HEC Paris
AI and Entrepreneurship Workshop
December 12, 2025 (scheduled)

EM Lyon Business School
AI in Management Seminar
December 18, 2025 (scheduled)

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MOST RECENT TALKS

See all past talks 2023-2025 here.

ETH Zurich and University of Zurich
Zurich Workshop in AI+Economics
December 5-6, 2025

University of Chicago
Development Innovation Lab
Lunch Research Seminar
November 13, 2025

ETH Zurich
Economics + Data Science Online Seminar
November 12, 2025

Luohan Academy
Webinar Series
November 11, 2025

World Bank
DIME-KDI School 6th Development Impact Conference
November 6-7, 2025

Google
Google Economics Seminar
October 23, 2025

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Department of Economics
Applied Micro Seminar
October 22, 2025

Microsoft Research
AI & Business Value Internal Meeting
September 29, 2025

BIO

I am the Howard & Nancy Marks Fellow (Postdoc) at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the Paris School of Economics in 2023, including a two-year visiting period at Princeton University's Department of Economics.

I work on behavioral economics and the economics of technology, focusing on individual (cognition, evaluation, incentives, decision-making) and organizational (operations, design, governance, welfare) dimensions. I design large-scale field experiments with firms to study how emerging technologies are integrated into core systems and how they reshape work, information flows, decision rights, and firm performance.

I am currently on the academic job market for the 2025–2026 cycle.

My job market paper, Voice AI in Firms, is the first large-scale natural field experiment on AI-led job interviews. Using data from over 70,000 real interviews, I study how replacing human interviewers with AI interviewers impacts labor matching, firm performance, and human-AI interactions. You can read about this work in recent interviews with Bloomberg and Poets & Quants, listen to two short podcasts from NPR The Indicator & NPR Planet Money, and watch an episode with the Chicago Booth Review.

In my follow-up paper, Choice as Signal, I show how choosing to interview with an AI voice agent becomes an informative screening signal with heterogeneous welfare impacts across candidates, and I characterize the conditions under which automation can expand, rather than substitute for, human work for the same task.. You can read about this work in a recent interview with Fast Company.

I am the Principal Investigator of the research program, Artificial Process Outsourcing, which examines how emergent technologies reshape work in global markets. Through theory-driven natural field experiments embedded in real-world business processes, I study the design, mechanisms, and welfare trade-offs of technology augmentation and automation. This agenda builds on a five-year research partnership I launched in 2024 with PSG Global Solutions, a subsidiary of Teleperformance, one of the world’s largest Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firms. It is supported by research grants from Schmidt Sciences, Google Cloud, Effective Ventures US, the Becker Friedman Institute, the Booth Center for Applied AI, and the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Curriculum Vitae | Email | Google Scholar | Booth profile | ORCID

JOB MARKET PAPER

Voice AI in Firms: A Natural Field Experiment on Automated Job Interviews 
with Luca Henkel
SSRN | Latest version: November 03, 2025 (PDF) | Twitter thread

Awards
(1) the NABE E. A. Mannis Prize In Recognition of the most outstanding paper presented at the 67th NABE Annual Meeting
(2) the 2025 Thaler-Tversky Award.

Selected Coverage
Bloomberg | The Information | HuffPost | Poets & Quant | Marginal Revolution | Fast Company | NPR | Booth Center for Applied AI (interview) | Business Insider | Financial Times | Fortune | Nasdaq | El Espectador | TF1 | Slate FR | National Affairs | see more

Selected Presentations
Luohan Academy | World Bank | Google | Microsoft | Stanford CASBS| Harvard Business School | USC Marshall Initiative on Digital Competition | UIUC Econ | UIUC Gies | University of Chicago Econ | see more

SELECTED RESEARCH

Choice as Signal: Designing AI Adoption in Labor Market Screening new paper
with Pëllumb Reshidi
SSRN
Fast Company

Artificial Writing and Automated Detection new paper
with Alex Imas
SSRN | NBER | Replication Package
The Information | Marginal Revolution | Forbes | Chicago Booth Review | TechLearning | YC News | see more

AI Behavioral Science new paper
with Matthew O. Jackson, Qiaozhu Mei, Stephanie W. Wang, Yutong Xie, Walter Yuan, Seth Benzell, Erik Brynjolfsson, Colin F. Camerer, James Evans, Jon Kleinberg, Juanjuan Meng, Sendhil Mullainathan, Asu Ozdaglar, Thomas Pfeiffer, Moshe Tennenholtz, Robb Willer, Diyi Yang, and Teng Ye
SSRN | ArXiv

Two-Ball Ellsberg Paradox
with Simon Lazarus
CESifo | CESifo Distinguished Affiliate Award 2023, finalist

Critical Thinking and Storytelling Contexts
with Elia Sartori
CESifo

The Next Generation of Experimental Research with LLMs
with Gary Charness and John List
Nature Human Behaviour, 2025
NBER | Teaching Slides
World Economic Forum | Chicago Booth Review | VoxEU Column