Public lecture deck
How to Use AI in This Class
A lecture on using AI as a research tool while preserving researcher judgment, context, and responsibility.
Courses & materials
Teaching
Materials for teaching modern labor economics, including assignments that ask students to evaluate and improve upon frontier-model research.
AI & research practice
Using AI in Economics Research
PhD Labor Economics · Fall 2026
Assignment
AI Context Pack Evaluation Assignment
Students develop a reusable context pack and evaluate whether it improves a frontier model’s reasoning about an important question in labor economics.
Selected module
Job Amenities
PhD Labor Economics · Fall 2026
Lecture slides
Compensating Wage Differentials
I provide lecture notes for the benefit of other instructors wishing to incorporate recent advances in the field into their own teaching.
Download slidesPowerPoint · PPTX↓Problem set
Pricing Job Amenities
Students receive the questions together with frontier-model responses that establish the baseline for evaluation.
Part 1 · Questions
Assignment
Questions on equilibrium amenity prices, utility dispersion, alternative estimators, and their empirical implementation.
Download questionsWord document · DOCX↓Part 2 · AI baseline
Baseline AI Responses
These attempts are normalized to zero for grading. Students start from them and are evaluated on how well they improve upon the baseline.