Research — Brian Jabarian
Research
5 working papers · 1 publications · 6 scientific methods
5
Working Papers
1
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Research spanning AI in labor markets, prediction markets, behavioral economics, and field experiments

Working Papers

5 papers
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Choice as Signal: Designing AI Adoption in Labor Market ScreeningNew

with Pëllumb Reshidi
Fast Company · Chicago Booth AI
SSRN
2026

Voice AI in Firms: A Natural Field Experiment on Automated Job InterviewsNew

with Luca Henkel
NABE E.A. Mannis Prize; 2025 Thaler-Tversky Award
Bloomberg · Financial Times · NPR · Fortune+27 more · Business Insider · The Information · Fast Company · HuffPost · Nasdaq · Marginal Revolution · Chicago Booth Review · Chicago Booth AI · Poets & Quants · Yahoo Finance · Rest of World · Morning Brew · eWeek · ReWorked · Kyla Scanlon · TF1 · El Espectador · Numerama · Au Feminin · Slate FR · National Affairs · Staffing Industry · HR Tech Cube · HRM Outlook · Talent Edge · PSG Global Solutions · Barchart
SSRN

Artificial Writing and Automated DetectionNew

with Alex Imas
The Information · Marginal Revolution · Forbes · Chicago Booth Review+1 more · TechLearning
Replication Package
SSRNNBER
Investigates the reliability of identifying AI-generated writing by comparing multiple detectors across diverse datasets, evaluating performance metrics and detection thresholds
2025

Critical Thinking and Storytelling Contexts

with Elia Sartori
CESifo

Two-Ball Ellsberg Paradox

with Simon Lazarus
CESifo Distinguished Affiliate Award 2023, finalist
CESifo

Selected Work-in-Progress

3 papers

AI Personalization in Labor Markets

with Luca Henkel
Design Phase
2026

Automated Hiring Decision-Making: Theory and Natural Field Experiment

with Luca Henkel, Ruru Hoong, Pellumb Reshidi
Design Phase
2026

Critical Thinking and Economic Impacts: A Natural Field Experiment in Saudi Arabia on Educational and Labor Performance

with Michael Cuna, Faith Fatchen, Faisal Kattan, Min Sok Lee, John List
Ongoing
2026

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1 paper

The Next Generation of Experimental Research with LLMs

with Gary Charness, John List
Published
World Economic Forum · Chicago Booth Review · VoxEU
Teaching Slides
Nature Human Behaviour
NBERNature
Investigates how LLMs can enhance scientific experimentation: improving experimental design, creating consistent participant experiences, assisting data analysis, and proposing a governance framework for responsible use
2025

Scientific Methods, Surveys, Notes and Chapters

6 papers

AI Behavioral ScienceNew

with Matthew O. Jackson, Qiaozhu Mei, Stephanie W. Wang, et al.
SSRNArXiv
Discusses the three main areas of AI Behavioral Science: how AI enhances behavioral research, how behavioral sciences can study and design AI, and how the world changes as AI and humans interact
2025

Black Boxes: Mental Models and AI Models

Invited
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance
SSRN
2025

LLMs for Behavioral Economics: Ensuring Internal Validity and Elicitating Mental Models

Invited
Elgar Encyclopedia of Experimental Social Science
SSRN
2025

LLMs for Behavioral Economics: Synthetic Mental Models and Data Generalization

Invited
Elgar Encyclopedia of Experimental Social Science
SSRN
2025

The Virtues of Lab Experiments

with Gary Charness, James Cox, Charles Holt, Catherine Eckel
R&R
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
CESifo
2025

Distributional Approach to Risk Preferences

with Nir Chemaya, Charles Johnson, Enoch Yeung, Gary Charness
Pre-print
Proposes a distributional framework treating risk preferences as a full probability distribution rather than a point estimate, using the flexible beta family to encompass the entire spectrum from risk aversion to risk-seeking
2024

Doctoral Theses

2 papers

Philosophy Writings & Art

5 papers

Decision Under Normative Uncertainty

with Franz Dietrich
Economics & Philosophy · Published
Journal
2021

The Moral Burden of Ambiguity Aversion

ArXiv
Examines pluralist egalitarianism under uncertainty through a new two-stage Ellsberg thought experiment that challenges the theory's core principle in health ethics scenarios
2020

Axiomatic Foundations of Normative Uncertainty

with Franz Dietrich
Draft
2019

The Risk Attitude Under Normative Uncertainty

with Franz Dietrich
Draft
2019

Limites de la rationalité, asymétrie d’information et jugements en éthique et art

Manuscript
2016