Working Papers

General Social Agents

With John J. Horton.
Working paper.

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Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What we can learn from Homo Silicus

With John J. Horton and Apostolos Filippas.
Revise and Resubmit at the Review of Economics and Statistics.

Automated Social Science: Language Models as Scientist and Subjects

With Kehang Zhu and John J. Horton.
Reject and Resubmit at the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

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Prompt Adaptation as a Dynamic Complement in Generative AI Systems

With Eaman Jahani, Joe Zhang, Hong-Yi TuYe, Mohammed Alsobay, Christos Nicolaides, Siddharth Suri, and David Holtz.
Revise and Resubmit at Information Systems Research.

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

A national megastudy shows that email nudges to elementary school teachers boost student math achievement, particularly when personalized

with Angela L. Duckworth, Katherine L. Milkman, and 26 others).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025.

Effect Size Magnification. No Variable is as Important as the One You’re Thinking About—While You’re Thinking About It

With Linnea Gandhi and Angela L. Duckworth.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2024.

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Book Chapters

The Coasean Singularity? Demand, Supply, and Market Design with AI Agents

With Peyman Shahidi, Gili Rusak, Andrey Fradkin, and John J. Horton.
Forthcoming chapter in The Economics of Transformative AI

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Published Conference Proceedings

Strategic Tradeoffs Between Humans and AI in Multi-Agent Bargaining

With Crystal Qian, Kehang Zhu, John Horton, Vivian Tsai, James Wexler, and Nithum Thain.
ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2026.