Emma Wiles
@emmawiles.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. Boston University. Formerly MIT Sloan. AI in labor markets, digital platforms, a secret third thing (min*m*m w*ge.) Other interests: diabetes, musicals, and the premier league.
née van Inwegen
née van Inwegen
Huge day for me, frankly
May 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Huge day for me, frankly
I’ve thought about the Maggie Smith poem Good Bones every day since she was born
April 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I’ve thought about the Maggie Smith poem Good Bones every day since she was born
Happy to announce that @edwardwiles.bsky.social and I have a new addition to the family! Welcome to the world, Penelope!
April 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Happy to announce that @edwardwiles.bsky.social and I have a new addition to the family! Welcome to the world, Penelope!
New office decorations just dropped
April 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New office decorations just dropped
After the experiment, the market rolled out the tool to 95% of new employers. A difference in difference analysis suggests results hold or get worse as more of market is exposed to AI.
March 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
After the experiment, the market rolled out the tool to 95% of new employers. A difference in difference analysis suggests results hold or get worse as more of market is exposed to AI.
Here, you can see that in the control group, job posts where the employer spent almost no time writing receive fewer applications. However, in the treatment group, job posts where employers spent 0-2 minutes writing the job post get *more applications*!
March 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Here, you can see that in the control group, job posts where the employer spent almost no time writing receive fewer applications. However, in the treatment group, job posts where employers spent 0-2 minutes writing the job post get *more applications*!
The AI appeared to dilute signals of employer seriousness: here we show that in the control group, the time an employer spent writing a job post is correlated with how long the job post is. In the treatment group, this relationship is much weaker.
March 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The AI appeared to dilute signals of employer seriousness: here we show that in the control group, the time an employer spent writing a job post is correlated with how long the job post is. In the treatment group, this relationship is much weaker.
Why? First, the treatment appeared to induce job posts from employers who were less inclined to make a hire (marginal jobs.) Second, even the inframarginal jobs were affected by the AI treatment---the job posts in the treatment group look significantly more generic than those in the control group.
March 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Why? First, the treatment appeared to induce job posts from employers who were less inclined to make a hire (marginal jobs.) Second, even the inframarginal jobs were affected by the AI treatment---the job posts in the treatment group look significantly more generic than those in the control group.
However, employers in the treatment group were much less likely to make a hire. Despite the ~20% more job posts, and the increase in applications, there were *no more* jobs formed in the treatment group than in the control group.
March 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
However, employers in the treatment group were much less likely to make a hire. Despite the ~20% more job posts, and the increase in applications, there were *no more* jobs formed in the treatment group than in the control group.
We randomly assign newly registered employers to an online labor market to a control group or treatment group after they have begun the process of posting a job. We offer treated employers access to a GPT3.5 written job post, based on a short description of their needs.
March 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We randomly assign newly registered employers to an online labor market to a control group or treatment group after they have begun the process of posting a job. We offer treated employers access to a GPT3.5 written job post, based on a short description of their needs.
🚨 New paper alert, with @johnjhorton.bsky.social! Using an experiment run on a large online labor market, we provide evidence that providing employers access to an AI-written first draft of a job post harms the efficiency of the market.
emmawiles.github.io/storage/jobo...
emmawiles.github.io/storage/jobo...
March 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🚨 New paper alert, with @johnjhorton.bsky.social! Using an experiment run on a large online labor market, we provide evidence that providing employers access to an AI-written first draft of a job post harms the efficiency of the market.
emmawiles.github.io/storage/jobo...
emmawiles.github.io/storage/jobo...
Happy St Patrick’s Day from a Dropkick Murphy’s concert at Fenway! <- Most Bostonian sentence of all time
March 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Happy St Patrick’s Day from a Dropkick Murphy’s concert at Fenway! <- Most Bostonian sentence of all time
My husband asked for help on this section of the crossword where something was clearly wrong.
On this clue he had put ELLA and said to me, his beloved wife EMMA, “Not sure about ELLA. I’m sure about the E & the A, but I can’t think of any other names that take the form E __ __ A.”
On this clue he had put ELLA and said to me, his beloved wife EMMA, “Not sure about ELLA. I’m sure about the E & the A, but I can’t think of any other names that take the form E __ __ A.”
February 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
My husband asked for help on this section of the crossword where something was clearly wrong.
On this clue he had put ELLA and said to me, his beloved wife EMMA, “Not sure about ELLA. I’m sure about the E & the A, but I can’t think of any other names that take the form E __ __ A.”
On this clue he had put ELLA and said to me, his beloved wife EMMA, “Not sure about ELLA. I’m sure about the E & the A, but I can’t think of any other names that take the form E __ __ A.”
New collective noun for economists just dropped
February 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New collective noun for economists just dropped
@noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev is the poem you’re looking for Louise Gluck’s White Lilies?
January 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
@noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev is the poem you’re looking for Louise Gluck’s White Lilies?
I bought a bunch of clay to do Christmas arts and crafts and my husband found it and did this
December 13, 2024 at 9:41 PM
I bought a bunch of clay to do Christmas arts and crafts and my husband found it and did this
A+ commute in beautiful Boston
December 9, 2024 at 2:17 PM
A+ commute in beautiful Boston
Almost! I thought it was so cool then and I continue to think it's cool
December 6, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Almost! I thought it was so cool then and I continue to think it's cool
December 5, 2024 at 3:25 PM
There is absolutely nothing like the 1994 Little Women for a winter sick day
November 24, 2024 at 7:00 PM
There is absolutely nothing like the 1994 Little Women for a winter sick day
I was raised in these streets
November 18, 2024 at 8:48 PM
I was raised in these streets
George Eliot got the 2024 election spot on in 1871
November 12, 2024 at 12:34 PM
George Eliot got the 2024 election spot on in 1871
My favorite new idea came from @devoncantwell.bsky.social who includes a question on the in person final exam with an AI generated answer to some prompt, and the students have to "correct, edit, and critique" the answer using materials from class.
100% doing this.
100% doing this.
November 11, 2024 at 2:31 PM
My favorite new idea came from @devoncantwell.bsky.social who includes a question on the in person final exam with an AI generated answer to some prompt, and the students have to "correct, edit, and critique" the answer using materials from class.
100% doing this.
100% doing this.