Publications & Papers by David H. Autor

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Labor Economics

What Makes New Work Different from More Work?

forthcoming, Annual Review of Economics
David Autor, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons, and Bryan Seegmiller
March 2026
Labor Economics

Building Pro-Worker Artificial Intelligence

Brookings Institution, February 2026.
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor and Simon Johnson
February 2026
Labor Economics

Resolving the Automation Paradox: Falling Labor Share, Rising Wages

David Autor and B.N. Kausik
January 2026
Labor Economics

Beyond Job Displacement: How AI Could Displace the Value of Human Expertise

The Digitalist Papers, Volume 2
David Autor, Neil Thomas
December 2025
Labor Economics

Misaligned by Design: Incentive Failures in Machine Learning

David Autor, Andrew Caplin, Daniel Martin, and Philip Marx
November 2025
Labor Economics

Places versus People: The Ins and Outs of Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization

Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 6, pp. 549-653.
David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, Maggie R. Jones and Bradley Setzler
September 2025
Labor Economics

A Better Way to Think about AI

The Atlantic
David Autor, James Manyika
August 2025
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Labor Economics

Expertise

Journal of the European Economic Association, 23(4), pp. 1203–1271.
David Autor, Neil Thompson
August 2025

Does automation replace experts or augment expertise? The answer is yes

2024 Schumpeter Lecture, given to the European Economic Association in Rotterdam
David Autor
August 2024
Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Political Economy

Help for the Heartland: The Employment and Electoral Effects of the Trump Tariffs in the United States

David Autor, Anne Beck, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson
August 2024
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Labor Economics

New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940-2018

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 139(3), pp 1399-1465
David Autor, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons, Bryan Seegmiller
August 2024
Labor Economics, Macroeconomics

The Unexpected Compression: Competition at Work in the Low Wage Labor Market

David Autor, Arindrajit Dube, Annie McGrew
April 2024
Labor Economics

AI Could Actually Help Rebuild the Middle Class

NOEMA Magazine
David Autor
February 2024
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Health Economics

Males at the Tails: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap

The Economic Journal, 133 (November), pp. 3136–3152
David Autor, David Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik, Jeffrey Roth and Melanie Wasserman
November 2023

A Young Person's Guide to Lawrence F. Katz

David Autor and David Deming
August 2023
Labor Economics, Macroeconomics

Bottlenecks: Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity Slowdown

Published in NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2023, v. 38, University of Chicago Press.
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Christina Patterson
June 2023

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Presentation to the American Statistical Association (slides) August 4, 2020
Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy

An Evaluation of the Paycheck Protection Program Using Administrative Payroll Microdata

MIT Working Paper
David Autor, David Cho, Leland D. Crane, Mita Goldar, Byron Lutz, Joshua Montes, William B. Peterman, David Ratner, Daniel Villar, Ahu Yildirmaz
July 2022
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Replication Files
Labor Economics

Artificial Intelligence and Jobs - Evidence from Online Vacancies

Journal of Labor Economics, 40(S1), pp. S293-S340.
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Jonathon Hazell, Pascual Restrepo
April 2022