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# Lawrence Schmidt

Northwestern University
Author of 1 paper in this guide

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## Their papers in this guide

- [Technology and Labor Markets: Past, Present, and Future; Evidence from Two Centuries of Innovation](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-1353-eca-2025-a994512/) [Brookings Papers on Economic Activity](https://aifaultline.com/sources/brookings-papers-on-economic-activity/) · 2025

## Questions their papers address

- [Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/jobs/) (1 of 1 papers)

## Writes with, in this guide

[Bryan Seegmiller](https://aifaultline.com/authors/bryan-seegmiller/) (1), [Dimitris Papanikolaou](https://aifaultline.com/authors/dimitris-papanikolaou/) (1), [Huben Liu](https://aifaultline.com/authors/huben-liu/) (1)

Co-authors on their papers here (3 of 3 shown).

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