Economics: Academic Discipline — Prolific Citations Library

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Papers (11 of 11)

On Human Factors in Machine Fairness: Essays in Behavioral Economics

Authors: AC Wömmel

Year: 2025

Published in: 2025 - ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de

Institution: University of Hamburg

Research Area: Machine Fairness, Behavioral Economics, Human-Machine Interaction

Discipline: Behavioral Economics, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Machine Interaction

Human behavior can undermine fairness interventions in AI, amplify inequalities, and reinforce socioeconomic disparities, emphasizing the need to integrate behavioral mechanisms into AI governance.

Methods: The dissertation utilized three empirical approaches: (i) deliberation experiments with UK participants using NLP analysis, (ii) online hiring experiments testing algorithmic fairness interventions, and (iii) panel data analysis of German households measuring digital skills and confidence levels.

Key Findings: Public attitudes towards AI, the adoption of fairness interventions in algorithmic tools, and socioeconomic disparities in digital skills and confidence.

Citations: 1
Scaling Laws for Economic Productivity: Experimental Evidence in LLM‑Assisted Consulting, Data Analyst, and Management Tasks

Authors: Ali Merali

Year: 2025

Published in: ArXiv

Institution: Yale University

Research Area: LLM-Assisted Economic Productivity, Consulting, Data Analysis

Discipline: Economics, Artificial Intelligence

The paper identifies scaling laws linking LLM training compute to professional productivity gains, showing an 8% annual reduction in task time influenced by both compute and algorithmic advances, but with uneven impacts across task types.

Methods: A preregistered experiment involving professional tasks completed by consultants, data analysts, and managers using 13 different LLMs.

Key Findings: Economic productivity impacts of LLMs in professional settings, time savings across task categories, and contribution of compute versus algorithmic progress.

Citations: 1

Sample Size: 500
Take caution in using LLMs as human surrogates: Scylla ex machina

Authors: Y Gao, D Lee, G Burtch, S Fazelpour

Year: 2024

Published in: arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.19599, 2024 - arxiv.org

Institution: Boston University, Northeastern University

Research Area: LLMs as Human Surrogates, Social Science Research Methods, Human Behavior Simulation

Discipline: Economics, Artificial Intelligence, Social Science

LLMs fail to accurately replicate human behavior in the 11-20 money request game, cautioning against their use as surrogates for human cognition in social science research.

Methods: The study evaluates the reasoning depth of various advanced LLMs through their performance on the 11-20 money request game, analyzing failure points related to input language, roles, and safeguarding.

Key Findings: The ability of LLMs to replicate human-like behavior and reasoning distribution in the context of social science simulations.

Citations: 25
Underreporting of AI use: The role of social desirability bias

Authors: Y Ling, A Kale, A Imas

Year: 2024

Published in: Available at SSRN 5464215, 2025 - papers.ssrn.com

Institution: University of Chicago

Research Area: Behavioral Economics, AI Adoption, AI Disclosure

Discipline: Behavioral Economics

Citations: 7
A chorus of different tongues: Official corporate language fluency and informal influence in multinational teams

Authors: F Guzman, B Reiche

Year: 2024

Published in: Science Direct

Institution: IESE Business School, Lille Économie Management

Research Area: Organizational Behavior, Language and Communication in Multinational Teams, Informal Influence, Peer-Granted Status.

Discipline: Behavioral Sciences, Business, Economics, Organisational Psychology, Psychology
Generative AI Triggers Welfare-Reducing Decisions in Humans

Authors: Fabian Dvorak, Regina Stumpf, Sebastian Fehrler, Urs Fischbacher

Year: 2024

Published in: ArXiv

Institution: University of Konstanz

Research Area: Generative AI and Human Decision-Making, Behavioral Economics

Discipline: Artificial Intelligence, Behavioral Economics
Other Worlds: Using AI to Revisit Cybersyn and Rethink Economic Futures

Authors: L Munn, L Magee

Year: 2024

Published in: ArXiv

Institution: University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, University of Queensland

Research Area: AI and Economic Futures, Cybernetics, Social Science

Discipline: Artificial Intelligence, Economics
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Authors: N Gupta

Year: 2023

Published in: 2023 - search.proquest.com

Institution: University of California San Diego

Research Area: Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Dynamic Decision Environments

Discipline: Behavioral Economics

Citations: 1
Perceived risks and benefits of Artificial Intelligence: A behavioral economics approach

Authors: V Kraft

Year: 2023

Published in: 2023 - lup.lub.lu.se

Research Area: Perceived Risks and Benefits of AI, Behavioral Economics

Discipline: Behavioral Economics, Artificial Intelligence

DOI: http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/9118081
Social Dynamics of AI Adoption

Authors: L Bursztyn, A Imas, R Jiménez-Durán, A Leonard

Year: 2022

Published in: 2025 - nber.org

Institution: University of Chicago, National Bureau of Economic Research, Booth School of Business, Bocconi University, Stanford University

Research Area: Behavioral Economics, Social Dynamics of Technology Adoption

Discipline: Behavioral Economics

Citations: 2
The managerial effects of algorithmic fairness activism

Authors: B Cowgill, F Dell'Acqua, S Matz

Year: 2020

Published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020 - aeaweb.org

Institution: Columbia University, Harvard Business School

Research Area: Algorithmic Fairness in Management, Economics

Discipline: Economics

Citations: 34