Economists Stansbury and Rock debate causality norms in AI labor market research
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-21
Economists Anna Stansbury and Daniel Rock debate research norms around AI's labor market impact. Stansbury argues we should relax the need to claim causality since descriptive collages of evidence are suggestive; Rock proposes papers can simply state early-career workers exposed to AI are having a tougher time, with causality unclear.
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