Topic: Digital interventions

Susan Athey examines how machine learning and digital interventions can help explain and improve workers’ transitions between jobs. One project uses Swedish administrative data to identify groups whose earnings and employment are less resilient after layoffs, revealing substantial differences among workers within the same firms and labour markets. A second line of work uses transformer models and large language models to represent careers and analyse gender wage gaps, identifying settings in which large unexplained differences persist. Two further projects develop and evaluate digital interve