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Friday October 13 #AMEC (#NYFed) will host this symposium covering WFH & the future of cities (Emma Harrington Yichen Su @SVNieuwerbur); AI & productivity growth (Avi Goldfarb Prasanna Tambe Laura Veldkamp); & the forces shaping future growth (John Fernald Lucia Foster Robert Gordon)

Join webinar tmrw at 11 AM ET, "New Census Bureau Economic Data Products," to hear about new high frequency and administrative records data products released by the agency; U.S. Census Bureau Chief Economist Lucia Foster to moderate; more info/sign up at: nabe.com/NABE/Events/Ev…

The Annual Business Survey in the US found that AI adoption was concentrated in firms with more educated and younger owners, high-growth start-ups, and superstar cities, from @k_mcelheran, J. Frank Li, Erik Brynjolfsson, Kroff, Dinlersoz, Lucia Foster, and Zolas nber.org/papers/w31788

Responses to our Business Trends & Outlook Survey Oct. 9-22 show Demand Indexes, which measure changes to consumer demand, were 43.3 (current) and 52.6 (future). #BTOS indexes measure recent or expected changes to business conditions: census.gov/hfp/btos/data #CensusEconData

New data from BTOS on AI use and expected use (!) by firms. High frequency, timely data with sector, size, and geography detail. Here are a couple highlights averaging the three waves published yesterday. Erik Brynjolfsson @k_mcelheran Flavio Calvino Daron Acemoglu Ethan Mollick tylercowen

Join U.S. Census Bureau for the virtual workshop on Advancing Research on Race, Ethnicity and Inequality on Nov. 14-15, 2023. Presented research will examine racial and ethnic inequalities in health, employment, education, housing, and more. census.gov/newsroom/press…

Responses to our Business Trends & Outlook Survey Oct. 23-Nov. 5 show 3.9% of firms currently use Artificial Intelligence or AI, and 6.5% expect to in the future. #BTOS indexes measure recent or expected changes to business conditions: census.gov/hfp/btos/data #CensusEconData

Nathan Goldschlag finds that fewer inventors are at small, young firms and more at older, larger firms. How might that affect the nature of innovation?

Nathan Goldschlag presents his awesome new paper with Ufuk Akcigit showing new firms are better at innovation!

Registration is open for the next #AMEC symposium—U.S. Productivity Growth: Looking Ahead See the lineup of sessions and speakers here: nyfed.org/3NVr0PT Hybrid event Friday, Feb. 16 9:30 am-3:00 pm #AI #supplychain #superstarfirms #productivity #inequality #cities

CONFIRMED: Erika McEntarfer to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor By a vote of 86-8.

Welcome Commissioner McEntarfer! : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics @ErikaMcentarfer bls.gov/blog/2024/welc… So happy for you and BLS!

Lucia Foster (U.S. Census Bureau) highlighted new data available on adoption of #AI across industry sectors and noted forthcoming survey data asking holdouts why they aren’t adopting it. #AMEC symposium >> nyfed.org/3NVr0PT

📢New data and working paper!📢 Business dynamics of high-growth firms, 44 new tables of BDS stats by firm growth rates with the stock and flow of firms, establishments, and employment covering over 4 decades. John Haltiwanger Joonkyu Choi Danny Kim census.gov/programs-surve…

Released today is Census BTOS data and working paper on AI use by businesses in real time (September 2023-February 2024). Working paper can be found at: census.gov/library/workin… AI use for business purposes remains relatively small but growing. Higher at larger businesses:

🤖🔮New *Real Time* Data and Working Paper on AI Use 🤖🔮 Our earlier work using firm survey data on AI use was prior to the rise of LLMs. This new data from BTOS covers Sep '23 to Feb '24 and asks about both current use and future expected use of AI. census.gov/library/workin…

Great line-up in the special issue of JEMS! We managed to get Joel Waldfogel, Tim Bresnahan, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb, @k_mcelheran, Erik Brynjolfsson and many other awesome authors in the same issue!

AI use for business purposes is relatively small but growing rapidly, from Kathryn Bonney, Cory Breaux, @cathybuffington, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia Foster, Nathan Goldschlag, John Haltiwanger, Zachary Kroff, and Keith Savage nber.org/papers/w32319

U.S. productivity is popping. And it’s not because of AI. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

AI use by businesses is small but growing rapidly, led by IT sector and firms in Colorado and DC | AP News apnews.com/article/ai-cen…