Project Team
The Generative AI Economics Research group was created in 2024 to assess and forecast the labor market impact of artificial intelligence technologies. The project is a collaborative effort by scholars from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Clemson University, and Stanford University.
Our Team
Jonathan Hartley
Jon is an economist specializing in finance, labor economics, and macroeconomics. He is currently a Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution, an economics PhD Candidate at Stanford University, Research Fellow at the UT-Austin Civitas Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and an Affiliated Scholar at the Mercatus Center.
Filip Jolevski
Filip is an Economist in the Enterprise Analysis Unit which is part of the Development Economics Vice Presidency of the World Bank. His research is focused on firm dynamics, spatial economics, and the informal sector of the economy. A Macedonian national, Filip holds a PhD in Economics from George Mason University.
Vitor Melo
Vitor is a PhD candidate at Clemson University, a Senior Research Associate at the Knee Regulatory Research Center, and a Fellow at the Initiative on Enabling Choice and Competition at the University of Chicago.
Brendan Moore
Brendan is an economics Ph.D student at Stanford University. As a labor economist, his academic research studies the causes and consequences of unemployment. He studies how workers cope with job loss, such as take-up of unemployment insurance and retraining at community colleges. He is also interested in how AI will shape employment patterns much like how automation affected the labor markets of generations past.
Omar Mirza
Omar works as a research associate at Princeton University for the project, ”Pygmalion effects and classroom networks: Evidence from Schools in Pakistan” where he is exploring how delivering teachers expectations impacts student outcomes. Omar also has experience working in the energy sector for the project “Short Term Load Forecasting of Pakistani Households.” He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business/Social Sciences from The University of London International Programmes and a Master’s degree in Economics from the Lahore University of Management Sciences. His thesis was titled “The Impact of Covid -19 Lockdown on Air Quality.”
Michael Li
Michael is an undergraduate at Stanford University intending to major in Philosophy and Math. He is interested in financial history, the economic consequences of AI, and monetary systems.
