What a gorgeous morning at home. Happy Thanksgiving to all! 🦃

🤖 As firms increasingly automate hiring, our study suggests that removing human interaction from candidate screening might hurt workers by robbing them of valuable information about prospective employers.

🚨Next time you hire, don’t take it easy! In a new working paper, @elliottash.bsky.social, Jason Sockin, and I show the difficulty of the interview signals to workers whether the job is a good fit. 🚨 Paper link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🚨Next time you hire, don’t take it easy! In a new working paper, @elliottash.bsky.social, Jason Sockin, and I show the difficulty of the interview signals to workers whether the job is a good fit. 🚨 Paper link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Rafa is ready for Halloween 🎃

Job interviews are not just a mechanism for employers to evaluate applicants. Research by @elliottash.bsky.social et al finds candidates use them to screen firms, rejecting offers if the interview was too easy: buff.ly/Py2mnlz TL;DR:🧵by @soumitrashukla.bsky.social buff.ly/WGArLaz

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Deadline is approaching! Send us your best work by September 1st 2025.

Last sunset of summer with my girl Rafa 🌅🐕💛

No place like home 🧩 🌊 💙

Thrilled that our “Interviews” paper was accepted to UChicago’s AI in Social Science Conference on Sep 25-26 🎉 We show that interview difficulty signals match quality, including future colleagues. Easy interviews lead to more rejections and faster turnover!

Running through fields of gold

Beautiful evening in the Cape

Morning walks with Daddo 🐾 🐕 ☀️

Birthday boat cruise with dearest Rafa 🐾 🛥️

Pretty perfect day with Rafa baby on the lawn

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Yesterday at NBER SI Jason Sockin presented our work with Elliott Ash and me showing how your interview process shapes how job seekers form perceptions of you as an employer. These impressions can impact everything from offer acceptance to employee retention!

Green card approved! Officially a permanent resident of the United States of America!! 🇺🇸🗽💚

Honored to have my research highlighted by the great Steven Pinker! When I started this work, I had no idea where it would lead. This is such a cool moment—I’ll cherish it for a very very long time.

Conehead

Thrilled to announce I'm joining HBS as a research fellow working closely with the Digital Reskilling Lab on labor, ORG, and personnel econ! I'll also be associated as a consultant with The Burning Glass Institute, the leading non-profit organization shaping the dialogue on the future of work.

Thrilled to see our paper 'Interviews,' co-authored with Jason Sockin and Elliott Ash, on the NBER SI Labor Studies program alongside work from many superstars in economics. www.nber.org/conferences/...

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Happy in the rain

🎉Just clicked on this program to see if it was up and it turns out our new paper "Interviews" got into the NBER Summer Institute in both the Labor and Personnel Econ programs! What a wonderful surprise!!

🎉Just clicked on this program to see if it was up and it turns out our new paper "Interviews" got into the NBER Summer Institute in both the Labor and Personnel Econ programs! What a wonderful surprise!!

🚨 We’re hiring! The Digital Reskilling Lab at Harvard is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our research on workforce development, labor markets and AI. Apply here 👉 academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14918 #EconJobs #Postdoc #FutureOfWork #AI #LaborEconomics #Harvard

Posing for daddo

Super excited to be participating in the NBER Economics of Culture and Institutions conference this Saturday! Thank you so much to Alberto Bisin and Paola Giuliano for having me there -- looks like a fantastic program! www.nber.org/conferences/...

This is one of the best papers on discrimination in recent years. Read it, read it again. More and more evidence that introducing subjectivity at almost any stage increases discrimination.

In her happy place

Throwback to when I was forcefully converted to being a Red Sox fan

📣 New paper drop! Why do some employees take up training and others don’t, even when the programs are the same? Surprisingly, the answer isn’t HR policy—it’s middle managers. 🧵

Rafa in her element

Heading back to DC after a fantastic NBER ORG organized by @raffasadun.bsky.social and @andreaprat.bsky.social—great talks in theory & empirical org econ. Highlight: texting my wife, sister, and parents when a speaker cited my work :) www.nber.org/conferences/...

Unbothered. In her lane. Thriving.

Wrapped up day 1 of the NBER ORG meetings and caught my paper getting a shout-out. Great dinner and conversation to finish off a pretty great day overall :)

Looking forward to the next @nber.org Organizational Economics Working Group meeting on April 10/11, coorganized with @andreaprat.bsky.social. We have a great line-up of new research papers in Org Econ! Program and livestream link: www.nber.org/conferences/...

Excited for the NBER ORG meeting this week! Thanks Raffaella Sadun & Andrea Prat for leading this forward-thinking group exploring fascinating topics, including AI and labor markets. Enjoyed discussing Anna’s paper on class gaps last fall—delighted to return!

Parents streaming my NBER talk on YouTube from 8,000 miles away. Pretty sure they’re now telling everyone—including relatives I haven’t seen since 2005—that I invented economics.

Great experience presenting my paper today at the NBER Race and Stratification Working Group! Thank you so much to @trevondlogan.bsky.social, Ellora Derenoncourt, Vicki Bogan, and Dania V. Francis for having me on the program.

Just received the great news that I'll be presenting my paper at the NBER Race and Stratification Working Group this Spring! www.nber.org/programs-pro...

Barrister’s Ball

Arguing our case for best dressed at Barrister's Ball 🌹⚖️

Pepe’s Brookline >> Pepe’s New Haven

Rafa Studio Ghibli Style

Successful day for Rafa!