Economics
Using economic theory and data-driven research to design better technologies, markets, and public policies.
New Future of Work Report 2025
IDEAS Research
Science + Innovation for Next-Gen Productivity IDEAS Research is the applied science team in IDEAS, the central data organization in Microsoft’s productivity division. Our mission is to advance the frontier of human productivity in the…
Magentic Marketplace
Magentic Marketplace is an open-source simulation environment for exploring the numerous possibilities of agentic markets and their societal implications at scale. It provides a foundation for studying these markets and guiding them toward outcomes that benefit everyone.
Applicability vs. job displacement: further notes on our recent research on AI and occupations
Recently, we released a paper Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI that studied what occupations might find AI chatbots useful, and to what degree. The paper sparked significant discussion, which is no surprise since people care deeply about the future of AI and jobs–that’s part…
