Featured Reseach

  • Robots and Labor in Nursing Homes

    How do employment, tasks, and productivity change with robot adoption? As a first step towards filling this gap, we study Japanese nursing homes using original facility-level panel data that includes the different robots used and the tasks performed.

  • Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI

    The potential for these seismic changes has triggered a lively debate about potential risks and resulted in calls for tighter regulation, in particular from some of the major tech companies who are leading in AI development. This regulation is likely to put at risk the budding field of open-source Generative AI. We argue for the responsible open sourcing of generative AI models in the near and medium term.

Select Research in Progress

  • 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?

  • 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?

  • Equalizer or Divider? The Geography of AI’s Impact

    How does AI differentially affect local labor markets across the country?

  • Tasking Energy: Human vs. AI Energy Consumption Across Occupations

Working Papers

  • Advancing AI Capabilities and Evolving Labor Outcomes

  • Racial Disparities in Police-Algorithm Interactions: Evidence from Rearrest Predictions

    CESIfo Working Paper No. 11877

  • Robots and Labor in the Service Sector: Evidence from Nursing Homes

    NBER Working Paper 28322.

Publications

  • Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning 2024

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Can AI Help Reduce Human Bias?

    Proceedings of Fourth European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR. 2025.

  • Do Multimodal Large Language Models Understand Welding?

    Yong Suk Lee, Nitesh Chawla, Grigorii Khvatskii, Corey Angst, Maria Gibbs, Robert Landers. Forthcoming Information Fusion. 2025.

  • Robots and Labor in Nursing Homes

    Yong Suk Lee, Karen Eggleston and Toshiaki Iizuka.  Labour Economics. 2025

  • The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs

    John Chung and Yong Suk Lee. ILR Review. 2023.

  • 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.

  • Optimizing Whose Engagement? Beliefs and Protest Participation of Social Media Users in South Korea.

    AI and Ethics. 2023.

  • Do University Entrepreneurship Programs Promote Entrepreneurship?

    Charles Eesley, Yong Suk Lee. Strategic Management Journal, 2021. 

  • University Education Reform and Entrepreneurship Among Alumni

    Charles E. Eesley, Xiaocong Tian, Delin Yang, Yong Suk Lee. Management and Organization Review. 2025.

  • In Institutions We Trust? Trust in Government and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Intention

    Charles Eesley and Yong Suk Lee. Organization Science. 2023.

  • Modern Management and the Demand for Technical Skill.

    Yong Suk Lee. Labour Economics, 2018, 55:328-343.

  • The Persistence of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Immigrants

    Yong Suk Lee, Charles Eesley. Research Policy, 2018.

  • 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.

  • International Isolation and Regional Inequality: Evidence from Sanctions on North Korea.

    Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 103:34-51.