In the News
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
2011
President Obama Announces More Key Administrative Posts, whitehouse.gov, April 21, 2011
2010
Tech firms add economists to arsenal, MercuryNews.com, November 22, 2010
Using smarts to bring businesses on top in web searches, Marketplace Tech, October 7, 2010
2009
FTC workshop explores future of journalism, regulation of aggregation, digiphile.wordpress.com, December 2, 2009
Is Qi Lu Microsoft’s search engine savior?, Bloomberg Businessweek, May 28, 2009
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
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
1998
The Interview: Susan Athey, The Boston Globe, August 2, 1998
1996
Diversity Adds up to Profits in Economists’ Math Equations,Dallas Morning News, October 1996
1995
A League of Her Own, Palo Alto Weekly, July 1995
The Top Draft Pick in Economics; A Professor-to-Be Coveted by Two Dozen Universities, New York Times, April 1995
What Would the Old Boys Say? New York Times, April 1995
Selected Blog Mention
http://www.economics.com.au/?p=796#more-796 (this one explains Athey's research in layman's terms).
http://lawreview.justia.com/2007/04/susan_athey_awarded_the_2007_j.html
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2007/04/congratulations-susan.html
http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2007/04/20/susan-athey-wins-clark-medal/
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/sss/archives/2007/04/congrats_to_sus.shtml
http://heavylifting.blogspot.com/2007/04/congrats-to-susan-athey.html