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50-word bio
John J. Horton is the Chrysler Professor of Management at MIT Sloan and an NBER Research Associate. His research examines market design, labor markets, online platforms, and how artificial intelligence changes work and social-science methodology. He is also a co-founder of Expected Parrot, which builds open-source tools for automated social science.
100-word bio
John J. Horton is the Chrysler Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, jointly appointed to the TIES and Information Technology groups, and a Research Associate at the NBER. His research spans information systems, market design, labor economics, organizational economics, and online platforms. His recent work studies how artificial intelligence changes labor markets and how AI agents can improve social-science research. Horton received his PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University and his BS in Mathematics from the United States Military Academy. He also co-founded Expected Parrot, which builds open-source tools and infrastructure for automated social science.
Full bio
I am an economist and the Chrysler Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, jointly appointed to the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management (TIES) and Information Technology (IT) groups, and a Research Associate at the NBER. My research is primarily focused on issues in information systems, market design, labor economics and organizational economics, particularly in the context of online markets. I am also interested in the effects of AI on labor markets and the potential of AI to improve social science methodology.
Before joining MIT, Horton was a faculty member at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a staff economist at oDesk. He received his PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University in 2011 and his BS in Mathematics, with a minor in Computer Science, from the United States Military Academy in 2001. He served as a tank platoon leader and executive officer in the U.S. Army.
He is a member of the Anthropic Economic Advisory Council and a co-founder of Expected Parrot, which develops open-source tools and infrastructure for automated social science.
