Howard and Nancy Marks Fellow, a Principal Researcher at the Roman Family Center for Decision Research, and an Affiliated Researcher at the Center for Applied AI at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Contact Information

The University of Chicago
Booth School of Business

Charles M. Harper Center, Office 059
5807 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637

brian.jabarian@chicagobooth.edu

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Booth profile
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I am the Howard and Nancy Marks Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where I partner with organizations to study how technologies transform work, decision-making, and the design of firms, markets, and institutions. I received a Ph.D. in economics from the Paris School of Economics in 2023.

I am on the AP job market in 2025-2026
Curriculum Vitae

Job Market Paper

Voice AI in Firms: A Natural Field Experiment on Automated Job Interviews
with Luca Henkel

📄 Download PDF (latest version: September 05, 2025)
🌐 SSRN version | Twitter thread | Bloomberg interview

Media Coverage
Press Releases:
PSG Global Solutions; Teleperformance; CBS; Barchart; Yahoo Finance;
Interviews: Booth Center for Applied AI; The Information; Bloomberg;
Podcasts: Chicago Booth Review Podcast (scheduled);
Quotes: Business Insider;
Mentions: Financial Times; Fortune; Rest of World; HRM Outlook; HR Tech Cube; Kyla’s Newsletter (Kyla Scanlon); Nasdaq; El Espectador; eWeek; Morning Brew; ReWorked; Greg Isenberg’s posts; Ethan Molick’s posts; Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen); Talent Edge (Brian Heger);

Recent and Scheduled Talks
Academic Conferences: Conference on Field Experiments in Strategy 2025, Harvard Business School & INSEAD, San Francisco; Advances with Field Experiments Conference 2025, University of Chicago, Department of Economics;
Invited Academic Talks: Applied Micro Seminar (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Economics; AI Behavioral Science Workshop 2025, Stanford University, CASBS; Behavioral Science Seminar, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, 2025; Experimental Economics Workshop University of Chicago, Department of Economics, 2025; TOM Workshop Meeting Harvard Business School, 2024; Conference on Field Experiments in Strategy 2024, Harvard Business School & INSEAD; Paris; Conference on AI in Business, Harvard Business School, Harvard D3 and Nova Business School, 2024.
Invited Policy & Industry Talks: Google, Google Economics Seminar; Microsoft Research, AI & Business Value Internal Meeting;

Selected Research

Artificial Writing and Automated Detection New Paper
with Alex Imas
🌐 SSRN version
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NBER version
🌐 Twitter thread

Media Coverage
Mentions: Less Wrong #132 (Zvi Mowshowitz); Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen);
Podcasts: Chicago Booth Review Podcast (scheduled);

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 version

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

Critical Thinking and Storytelling Contexts
with Elia Sartori
🌐 CESifo version

Cognitive Automation and Human-AI Error Coming Soon

Screening Skills with AI and Humans Field Data Collected
with Pëllumb Reshidi

Human-AI Learning: Theory and Field Evidence Field Data Collected
with Andrew Koh and Sahana Subramanyam

Critical Thinking and Economic Impacts: A Natural Field Experiment in Saudi Arabia on Educational and Labor Performance  Pilot Data Collected
with Michael Cuna, Faith Fatchen, Faisal Kattan, Min Sok Lee, and John List

The Next Generation of Experimental Research with LLMs
with Gary Charness and John List

🌐 NBER No. 31679
🌐 Teaching Slides
Nature Human Behaviour, 2025
Covered in the
World Economic Forum, Chicago Booth Review, VoxEU Column