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Posts June 4, 2026

Event recap—Understanding the costs of social media

On June 2, The Hamilton Project hosted an event exploring the costs of social media.
Papers June 2, 2026

Digital addiction: Evidence and policy implications

Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, and Lena Song present evidence of digital addiction among social media users.
Papers June 2, 2026

Product market traps in social media: Evidence and policy implications

Leonardo Bursztyn, Benjamin Handel, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, and Christopher Roth find evidence that many social media users are caught in a "product market trap."
Posts March 12, 2026

Event recap—AI + work: Understanding AI’s impact on the labor market

On March 10, the Budget Lab at Yale, The Hamilton Project, and Peterson Institute for International Economics hosted an event on AI’s impact on the labor marke…
Posts March 10, 2026

Research on AI and the labor market is still in the first inning

Jed Kolko reviews a selection of recent research on AI and the labor market.
Posts February 27, 2026

Event recap—AI + work: Building pro-worker AI

On February 25, The Hamilton Project hosted a virtual event with Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Simon Johnson, and Natasha Sarin to discuss pro-worker AI.
Papers February 23, 2026

Building pro-worker AI

Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson ask: What is pro-worker AI, and how can we build it?
Policy Proposals December 4, 2025

Artificial intelligence and algorithmic exclusion

In this proposal, Catherine Tucker makes the case for including algorithmic exclusion, defined as failure or harm arising from insufficient input data, in AI p…
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