Session 1: World Development Report

Artificial Intelligence for Development

Gaurav Nayyar (World Bank) 

AI and Jobs: Some Emerging Evidence and Projection

Shu Yu & Yan Liu (World Bank)

Session 2: AI in the Developing World

Who’s at Risk? Measuring ChatGPT’s Unequal Impact on Mexico’s Workforce

Nain Martinez & Diana Terrazas-Santamaria (El Colegio de México)

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Disruption without Dividend? How the Digital Divide and Task Differences split GenAI’s Global Impact

Paweł Gmyrek (ILO), Mariana Viollaz & Hernan Winkler (World Bank)

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Does Generative AI Really Equalize Low- and High-Skilled Workers?

Guillermo Cruces (Universidad de San Andrés), Diego Fernández Meijide (Universidad de San Andrés), Sebastián Galiani (Universidad de Maryland), Ramiro H. Gálvez (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella), María Lombardi (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)

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Session 3: What Have We Learned from Other Technological Changes?

Jobless Modernity

Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School), Marcela Eslava (Universidad de Los Andes), Martí Mestieri (Institut d’Analisi Economica), Luis Felipe Sáenz (University of South Carolina)

 

The Labor Market Effects of Mobile Internet: Evidence from Mexico

Lisa Sofie Höckel (RWI, IZA), Melanie Khamis (Wesleyan University, IZA), Anica Kramer (TU Dresden, RWI, IZA), Manuel Santos Silva (Frei Universität Berlin)

 

Organizational Changes in Response to Internet Adoption

Pedro Henrique Brandão Leite (PPGE, UFJF), Ricardo da Silva Freguglia (UFJF), Carlos Henrique Leite Corseuil (PPGE, UFJF)

Session 4: Indirect Consequences

Automation, Economic Shocks, and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Mexico

Julian Diaz-Gutierrez (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

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U.S. Robot Impacts in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Workers

Adriana D. Kugler (Georgetown University), Maurice Kugler (George Mason University) & Rodimiro Rodrigo (George Washington University)

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Digital Labor Platforms, Domestic Work and Formalization: Evidence from Argentina

Ariela Micha, Martin Trombetta & Francisca Pereyra (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina)

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Policy Panel: Steering Policy Through Technological Transformation

• David Kaplan, Lead Labor Market Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank

• Adriana Kugler, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Georgetown University

• William Maloney, Chief Economist for LAC, World Bank

• Sergio Urzúa, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland

 

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