How does artificial intelligence (AI) impact audit quality and efficiency? We explore this question by leveraging a unique dataset of more than 310,000 detailed individual resumes for the 36 largest audit firms to identify audit firms’ employment of AI workers. We provide a first look into the...

This paper investigates how consulting services affect audit quality, from the perspective of knowledge and expertise sharing between employees. Using a comprehensive office-level dataset of employment profiles and skillsets covering 86% of all employees at large U.S. public accounting firms, we...

Why do investors react to old information? We provide survey evidence to experimentally document that active finance professionals are more susceptible to old information when it comes as a recombination of content from multiple sources. To evaluate the market implications of this mechanism, we...

How resilient are high-skilled, white collar workers? We exploit a uniquely comprehensive dataset of individual-level resumes of bank employees and the setting of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy to estimate the effect of an unanticipated shock on the career paths of mobile and high skilled labor....

How does skilled human capital affect firm performance? By directly observing the monthly career migration patterns of 37 million employees of US public companies, along with their education, demographics, and skills, we explore firm-level "skill premia." Our key empirical finding is that,...

Which firms invest in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and how do these investments affect individual firms and industries? We provide a comprehensive picture of the use of AI technologies and their impact among US firms over the last decade, using a unique combination of job postings...

We study the shifts in U.S. firms’ workforce composition and organization associated with the use of AI technologies. To do so, we leverage a unique combination of worker resume and job postings datasets to measure firm-level AI investments and workforce composition variables, such as...

We study the shifts in U.S. firms' workforce composition and organization associated with the use of AI technologies. To do so, we leverage a unique combination of worker resume and job postings datasets to measure firm-level AI investments and workforce composition variables, such as...