Economists Use Firms' Historic University Hiring Patterns as an Instrument for AI Adoption
TaniaBabina · x · 2026-10-08
In a discussion tied to New York Fed research, economists note a persistent problem in studying AI adoption: firms' adoption decisions can't be randomized.
TaniaBabina and coauthors propose a clever instrument that leverages firms' historic hiring patterns from specific universities, offering a new identification strategy for causal research on AI adoption.
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