Featured Reseach
Select Research in Progress
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Managerial Advocacy for and Intent to Employ AI versus Humans
Does AI productivity and labor narratives shape managerial adoption of AI and advocacy for labor?
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Public Support for Techno-Governance: What Would Drive People to Support AI use in Government?
Does public distrust for governance increases support for techno-governance, i.e., AI use in government?
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Equalizer or Divider? The Geography of AI’s Impact
How does AI differentially affect local labor markets across the country?
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Tasking Energy: Human vs. AI Energy Consumption Across Occupations
Working Papers
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Advancing AI Capabilities and Evolving Labor Outcomes
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Racial Disparities in Police-Algorithm Interactions: Evidence from Rearrest Predictions
CESIfo Working Paper No. 11877
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Robots and Labor in the Service Sector: Evidence from Nursing Homes
NBER Working Paper 28322.
Publications
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Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning 2024
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Does Information About AI Regulation Change Manager Evaluation of Ethical Concerns and Intent to Adopt AI?
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar , Benjamin Larsen , Yong Suk Lee , Michael Webb. Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization. 2024.
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When Does AI Pay Off? AI-Adoption Intensity, Complementary Investments, and R&D Strategy
Yong Suk Lee, Taekyun Kim, Sukwoong Choi , Wonjoon Kim. Technovation. 2022, vol 118.
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Can AI Help Reduce Human Bias?
Proceedings of Fourth European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR. 2025.
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Do Multimodal Large Language Models Understand Welding?
Yong Suk Lee, Nitesh Chawla, Grigorii Khvatskii, Corey Angst, Maria Gibbs, Robert Landers. Forthcoming Information Fusion. 2025.
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Robots and Labor in Nursing Homes
Yong Suk Lee, Karen Eggleston and Toshiaki Iizuka. Labour Economics. 2025
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The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs
John Chung and Yong Suk Lee. ILR Review. 2023.
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US-China Tech Decoupling Increases Willingness to Share Personal Data in China
Yong Suk Lee, Benjamin Larsen and Jingxin Wu. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 2025.
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Optimizing Whose Engagement? Beliefs and Protest Participation of Social Media Users in South Korea.
AI and Ethics. 2023.
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Do University Entrepreneurship Programs Promote Entrepreneurship?
Charles Eesley, Yong Suk Lee. Strategic Management Journal, 2021.
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University Education Reform and Entrepreneurship Among Alumni
Charles E. Eesley, Xiaocong Tian, Delin Yang, Yong Suk Lee. Management and Organization Review. 2025.
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In Institutions We Trust? Trust in Government and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Intention
Charles Eesley and Yong Suk Lee. Organization Science. 2023.
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Modern Management and the Demand for Technical Skill.
Yong Suk Lee. Labour Economics, 2018, 55:328-343.
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The Persistence of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Immigrants
Yong Suk Lee, Charles Eesley. Research Policy, 2018.
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Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses, and Economic Growth in Cities.
Yong Suk Lee. Journal of Economic Geography, 2017, 17(2). Winner of Urban Land Institute Prize for best paper published in Journal of Economic Geography in 2017.
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International Isolation and Regional Inequality: Evidence from Sanctions on North Korea.
Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 103:34-51.