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2024

Presidential Address, ASSA 2024, January 06, 2024

An Interview with Susan Athey, Founding Director of the Golub Capital Social Impact Lab at Stanford, Golub Capital, January 05, 2024

Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Bulletin, YoungStats Interviews Susan Athey, January 01, 2024

2023

Immigrant Nobel Prize Laureates, Nobel Laureates in Economics: International Collaboration and Social Impact, December 19, 2023

Tech increases access to contraceptives in Cameroon, Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast, November 21, 2023

Capitol Gains: GSB Professors Share Their Expertise in DC and Beyond | Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, October 25, 2023

Is Your Business Ready to Jump Into A.I.? Read This First. | Stanford Graduate School of Business Stanford Graduate School of Business, October 25, 2023

Responsible AI at the company level | Fortune, Fortune, October 18, 2023

Machine-learning technique identifies people who would benefit most from treatment to reduce future cardiovascular disease risk, UCLA Health, April 13, 2023

A Novel Strategy for Fighting Discrimination on Online Platforms, Kellogg Insight, March 1, 2023

A low-cost fix for tech’s diversity problem, Stanford SIEPR, February 9, 2023

COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated, Harvard Business School, February 10, 2023

2022

As carbon removal gains traction, economists imagine a new market to save the planet, NPR.org, January 11, 2022

Cell Phone Data Adds New Detail to Our Picture of Urban Segregation, Insights by Stanford Business, March 11, 2022

The economic case for federal investment in COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics remains strong, Brookings, April 1, 2022

Federal banking agencies trying to ensure AI, ML benefit most rather than the few, Federal News Network, April 28, 2022

Technology Economist Susan Athey Adds DOJ Role to Her Multidimensional Career, HAI Stanford University, July 7, 2022

Congregation 2022 – 06 July – Morning Ceremony, London Business School, July 6, 2022

Pioneering Tech Economist Susan Athey Joins Federal Antitrust Team, Stanford Graduate School of Business, July 7, 2022

Interview with Susan Athey, Professor at Stanford, President of AEA, Scott Cunningham, June 16, 2022

2021

How Will the Digital Markets Act Regulate Big Tech?, ProMarket, January 11, 2021

Designing and Analyzing Behavioral Experiments with Machine Learning, BCFG March 8, 2021

We Can Use Machine Learning to Make Better Decisions: World of DaaS interview with Stanford professor of economics, Susan Athey, Safe Graph, July 30, 2021

Women in Economics, IMF Blog, August 6, 2021

Designing Markets for Faster, Better Vaccines, Insights by Stanford Business, October 19, 2021

“Artificial Intelligence for Social Good,” with Professor Susan Athey, Stanford Graduate School of Business, October 21, 2021

Agile Discovery and Innovation:, Stanford Medicine, November 19, 2021

Opinion | Advance Market Commitments Worked for Vaccines. They Could Work for Carbon Removal, Too. Politico, December 2021

2020

Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities, Science Magazine, August 28, 2020

Putting Together a Search Party for Better Covid-19 Treatments, August 13, 2020

Generic Drug Repurposing for COVID-19 and Beyond, Boston University, Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy, July 17, 2020

Tim Harford: can the pandemic help us fix our technology problem?, Financial Times, June 10, 2020

Create a health impact fund to spur development and equitable use of a Covid-19 vaccine, StatNews, June 3, 2020

Three Big Ideas, NPR | KQED, May 27, 2020

Preventing ‘Cytokine Storm’ May Ease Severe COVID-19 Symptoms, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, May 20, 2020

Everyone Wins from Vaccine Cooperation, Project Syndicate, May 14, 2020

Experts’ 7 best ideas on how to beat Covid-19 and save the economy, VOX, May 13, 2020

Interview with Susan Athey Coronavirus Pandemic, MSNBC, May, 2020

In the Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, We Must Go Big. Really, Really Big., The New York Times | Opinion, May 4, 2020

How to practice social distancing while helping the economy, Washington Post, March 16, 2020

Bringing an Economist’s Perspective to Data Science, Women in Data Science (WiDS), January 16, 2020

2019

HAI 2019 Fall Conference: AI and the Economy, with Susan Athey and Erik Brynjolfsson, The Stanford Daily, October 28, 2019

“AI in 10 minutes” Interview from SNS Tylösand Summit, October 14. 2019

Economist as Engineer, IMF: F&D Article, June 2019

Tech: Economists Wanted, AEA Reseach Highlights, March 15, 2019

Machine Learning and Economics, TNIT News, February 2019

Why Tech Companies Hire So Many Economists, HBR, February 12, 2019

Artificial Intelligence: Separating the Hype from Reality, Fortune, January 22, 2019

5 Game-Changing Papers From This Year’s Largest Gathering of Economists, Yahoo! Finance, January 8, 2019

2018

AI and the Future of Work, The Stanford AI Lab Blog, December 20, 2018

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try ‘Digitization Economist’, HBS Working Knowledge, October 29, 2018

Reshaping Markets to Solve Poverty and Inequality, Stanford GSB, October 10, 2018

Susan Athey: Why business leaders shouldn’t have blind faith in AI, Forbes India (from Stanford Business Insights), September 10, 2018

Fixing big data’s blind spot, Forbes India, June 8, 2018

Bitcoin: The Past, Present and Future, Bloomberg, April 26, 2018

Is it possible to be too data driven?, Bangkok Post, February 21, 2018

Can Amazon Go help the unbanked go digital?, Engadget, January 31, 2018

Susan Athey: Applying Machine Learning to the Economy, Stanford GSB News, January 29, 2018

2017

Here’s what people get wrong when debating automation: Stanford professor, Yahoo News, November 25, 2017

We say we want data privacy—then researchers put free pizza in front of us, Quartz, October 11, 2017

Pizza over privacy?, Stanford News, August 3, 2017

Machine Learning for Policy Analysis, The Wonk Podcast, June 2017

Angry Over Zillow’s Home Prices? You Can Win a Prize by Improving Them, The New York Times, May 24, 2017

Interview with Susan Athey – Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize 2016, Toulouse School of Economics, February 2017

Beyond prediction: Using big data for policy problems, Science, February 3, 2017

2016

Featured Economist, STEM Gems Book, 2016

Susan Athey on Machine Learning, Big Data, and Causation, Library of Economics and Liberty, September 12, 2016

Artificial Intelligence: The Economic and Policy Implications , Technology Policy Institute, September 12, 2016

Can business schools prepare students for a 70-year career?, Financial Times, September 8, 2016

Simulating Business Success, ANSYS Dimensions Magazine, Summer 2016

Designing Online Marketplaces, Programmatic I/O San Francisco, AdExchanger, April 14, 2016

How Academia Is Shaping Ad Tech And Platform Business Models, AdExchanger, April 6, 2016

Why do Technology Companies Hire Economists, Forbes, January 27, 2016

What Will The Impact of Machine Learning Be On Economists?, Forbes, January 27, 2016

2015

Designing Online Advertising Markets, UC Berkeley Simons Institute, Algorithmic Game Theory and Practice, November 16, 2015

CMSA Big Data Interview, Harvard University – CMSA, August 26, 2015

Bitcoin Blockchain Technology In Financial Services: How The Disruption Will Play Out, Forbes, September 14, 2015

Economists and the Real World, Econ Focus, 1st quarter, 2015

The Economics of Bitcoin & Virtual Currency, Stanford GSB, June 18, 2015

Why Managers Must Embrace Big Data or Be Left Behind, The Fast Track, June 1, 2015

Nasdaq Signals Confidence in Bitcoin, Not Just the Blockchain, American Banker, May 19, 2015

Stanford Professor Combines Machine Learning and Econometrics, The Harvard Crimson, April 29, 2015

E-Commmerce Ad rates Paying by Time, Not Clicks, Businessweek, April 26, 2015

Diverse Perspectives Needed To Provide Better Analysis Of Big Data, Becker Friedman Institute, April 10, 2015

Women in Business: Sara Clemens, Chief Strategy Officer, Pandora, Huffington Post, March 31, 2015

2014

Who Will Benefit From Digital Currency? Bitcoin Experiment Gives A Glimpse, Forbes.com, November 26, 2014

Could Digital Currency Make Our Money More Secure?, Forbes.com, November 25, 2014

Susan Athey On How Digital Currency Could Transform Our Lives, Forbes.com, November 24, 2014

Ripple Labs welcomes Susan Athey to its Board of Directors, Ripple Laps, April 8, 2014

Software Piracy: Evidence from Windows 7, Technology Academics Policy, April 3, 2014

If People Use it, Bitcoin Has Intrinsic Value, CoinDesk, April 1, 2014

Why Everybody Who Doesn’t Hate Bitcoin Loves it: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast, Freakonomics, March 27, 2014

Adios, 3-to-5 day money transfers, CNN Money, March 21, 2014

NYDFS Public Hearing Regarding Virtual Currencies, Department of Financial Services, January 28-29. 2014

2013

What 2013 Taught Economists About Infant Mortality and Austerity, Bloomberg, December 31, 2013

Big data can blind us to the long term, Financial Times, December 9, 2013 (Subscription required)

The bitcoin crash of 2013: Don’t you feel silly now?, LA Times, December 7, 2013

Bit By Bit by Bitcoin, OnPoint Radio with Tom Ashbrook, Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Susan Athey: Breaking the Stereotype, Imagine Magazine, Nov/Dec 2013

Susan Athey: How Big Data Changes Business Management, Stanford GSB News, September 20, 2013

Econometricians looked at the news business, and it isn’t pretty, Washington Post, September 17, 2013

GSB Economist uses big data to shake up the Internet, Stanford Daily, August 23, 2013

The Profession: Where are the Women, Econ Focus, August 15, 2013

Stanford Economist Musters Big Data to Shape Web Future, Bloomberg, June 26, 2013

Data scientists in big demand as numbers pile up, newsobserver.com, June 11, 2013

Interview with Susan Athey, minneapolisfed.org, March 6, 2013

Seven notables to get honorary Duke degrees, The Chronicle, Duke University, January 22, 2009

2007

SAT Exam, Taken at Age 13, Can Predict Career Path of Gifted, Bloomberg, September 7, 2007

Back to Basics: Harvard’s Susan Athey Wins the John Bates Clark Medal, The Economist, April 26, 2007

Athey helps determine how uncertainty affects decision-making, Bloomberg, April 25, 2007

Harvard professor wins economics prize, Financial Times, April 23, 2007

Economist who aided Canada wins top honour, The Globe and Mail, April 23, 2007. (correction: the last quote of this article should have read “we’re some” rather than “I’m one.”)

Economist Breaks New Ground As First Female Winner of Top Prize, Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2007

Young Prof Snags Top Ec Medal, The Crimson, April 23, 2007 (correction: Athey is 36, not 37)

Clark Medal to Susan Athey, Economic Principals, April 22, 2007

Clark Medal announcement from the AEA, 2007

2006

Building A Better Auction, Harvard Gazette, November 9, 2006

Stanford’s Athey Named FAS Professor of Economics, Harvard Gazette, February 9, 2006

2004

A Woman in a Man’s Discipline, The Chronicle of Higher Ed, December 2004

2001

2000 Elaine Bennett Award Winner Susan Athey, MIT–As interviewed by Rachel Croson regarding her work, her mentors, and her goals, CSWEP Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2001