Papers (Automation)

Books

Bessen, James (2015), Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth, Yale University Press.

Brynjolfsson, Erik and Andrew McAfee (2014), The Second Machine Age, Norton: New York.

Cowen, Tyler (2014), Average is Over, Penguin: New York.

Goldin, Claudia and Lawrence Katz (2010), The Race Between Education and Technology, Belknap Press: Cambridge.

Theoretical

Acemoglu, Daron and Pascual Restrepo (2019), “The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand,” Working Paper No.25682, NBER.

Acemoglu, Daron and Pascual Restrepo (2018), "Modeling Automation," mimeo., MIT.

Guerreiro, Joao, Sergio Rebelo, Pedro Teles (2017), "Should Robots be Taxed?" Working Paper, No.23806, NBER.

Acemoglu, Daron and Pascual Restrepo (2017), "The Race Between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares and Employment," mimeo., MIT.

Acemoglu, Daron and David Autor (2012), "What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology," Journal of Economic Literature,  50(2), pp. 426–463.

Sachs, Jeffrey C. and Lawrence Kotlikoff (2012), "Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery," Working Paper, No.18629 , NBER.

Empirical

Acemoglu, Daron and Pascual Restrepo (2019), “Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor,” Working Paper No.25684, NBER.

Acemoglu, Daron and Pascual Restrepo (2018), "Demographics and Automation," Working Paper No. 24421, NBER.

Acemoglu, Daron and Pascual Restrepo (2017), "Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets," mimeo., MIT.

Acemoglu, Daron and Pascual Restrepo (2017), "Secular Stagnation? The Effect of Aging on Economic Growth in the Age of Automation," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (forthcoming).

Mann, Katja and Lukas Püttmann (2017), "Benign Effects of Automation: New Evidence from Patent Texts," mimeo. 

Autor, David H. (2015), "Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer, 29(3), 3–30.

Bessen, James (2012), “More Machines, Better Machines…Or Better Workers?” Journal of Economic History, 72(1), pp, 44-74.

Bessen, James (2011), “Was Mechanization De-Skilling? The Origins of Task-Biased Technical Change,” Boston Univ. School of Law Working Paper No. 11-13.

Acemoglu, Daron and David Autor (2011), "Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings," Handbook of Labor Economics, 4(B), pp. 1043-1171.

Autor, David, Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane (2002), "Upstairs, Downstairs: Computers and Skills on Two Floors of a Large Bank," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April, 55 (3), 432–447.

Autor, David H. (2001), "Wiring the Labor Market," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter, 15(1), 25–40. 

Autor, David, Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger (1998), "Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, November, 113(4), 1169–1214.