CARDCarnegie Mellon University
Assistant Professor
Google, Inaugural Google AI & Economy Researcher
Chicago Booth Center for Applied AI, Affiliate
CESifo, Research Network Fellow
J-PAL, Invited Researcher
Innovation Growth Lab, Research Affiliate
Research Interests
Behavioral & Experimental Economics; Economics of AI;
Digital Economy and Information Systems; Ethics of AI
Research Programs
Artificial Process Outsourcing
Contact Information
jabarian@cmu.edu | Curriculum Vitae | Google Scholar
BIOGRAPHYI am an economist studying frontier AI systems that are automating an increasing share of real-world labor and measuring the implications for organizations, markets, alignment, and welfare. My research combines large-scale natural field experiments, synthetic experiments, and prediction markets in partnership with organizations deploying these systems.
I received my Ph.D. in economics from the Paris School of Economics and my Ph.D. in philosophy from the Sorbonne, both in 2023.
My work has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, NPR Planet Money, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Poets & Quants, Business Insider, Financial Times, The Information, HuffPost, among others.
SELECTED RESEARCHChoice as Signal: Designing AI Adoption in Labor Market Screening
with Pëllumb Reshidi
SSRN
Fast Company | Chicago Booth AI
Voice AI in Firms: A Natural Field Experiment on Automated Job Interviews
with Luca Henkel
SSRN | Slides (short) | Slides (long) | Summary | NABE E. A. Mannis Prize | 2025 Thaler-Tversky Award
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
Artificial Writing and Automated Detection
with Alex Imas
SSRN | NBER | Replication Package
The Information | Marginal Revolution | Forbes | Chicago Booth Review | TechLearning | YC News | see more
AI Behavioral Science
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
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