Emil Palikot
I am an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Northeastern University. I am also a research affiliate at Golub Capital Social Impact Lab at Stanford University.
I study AI, platforms, and labor markets: how digital technologies reshape work, hiring, and economic opportunity. My current work covers the economics of digitization in labor markets, platform design for matching, and causal inference with machine learning to understand worker behavior. Applications include AI-assisted recruitment, online reputation systems, digital labor platforms, algorithmic hiring, and technology interventions for career development and social mobility.
To learn more about my research, please visit my google scholar page or download my full curriculum vitae.
Recent News
January 2027:Presenting Better Together: Quantifying the Benefits of AI-Assisted Recruitment at the 3rd Lausanne Management & Economics Workshop (HEC Lausanne)
November 2026:Panelist at the NABE Tech Economics Conference
November 2026:Presenting The Economics of Algorithmic Personalization: Evidence from an Educational Technology Platform at the INFORMS Annual Meeting
November 2026:Invited Seminar, Boston University, Information Systems
October 2026:Invited Seminar, Boston College, Information Systems
September 2026:"The Impact of Shared Telecom Infrastructure on Digital Connectivity and Inclusion" accepted for publication in Review of Network Economics
September 2026:New version of "The Economics of Algorithmic Personalization: Evidence from an Educational Technology Platform" available
September 2026:Presented The Economics of Algorithmic Personalization: Evidence from an Educational Technology Platform at Amazon (EDS Seminar Series)
July 2026:New version of "Fighting Discrimination with Reputation: The Case of Online Platforms" available
July 2026:Presented The Economics of Algorithmic Personalization: Evidence from an Educational Technology Platform at the Platform Strategy Research Symposium at Boston University
June 2026:New version of "Smiles in Profiles: Improving Efficiency While Reducing Disparities in Online Marketplaces" available on arXiv
June 2026:Presented Better Together: Quantifying the Benefits of AI-Assisted Recruitment at the ISMS Marketing Science Conference at Nova School of Business and Economics
June 2026:Presented The Value of Non-Traditional Credentials in the Labor Market at the North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society
May 2026:Presented Better Together: Quantifying the Benefits of AI-Assisted Recruitment as a keynote talk at the Speero Conference on Experimentation
May 2026:Presented The Economics of Algorithmic Personalization: Evidence from an Educational Technology Platform at the Bay Area Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop (USF)
May 2026:"Contest, Gamification, and Persistent Engagement in Educational Technology" published in Quantitative Marketing and Economics
April 2026:Presented The Economics of Algorithmic Personalization: Evidence from an Educational Technology Platform at the Midwest International Economic Development Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 2026:Presented The Economics of Algorithmic Personalization: Evidence from an Educational Technology Platform at the International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC)
April 2026:Presented The Labor Market Value of Non-Traditional Credentials at the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Decision Making and Well-Being at Northeastern University
March 2026:Presented The Labor Market Value of Non-Traditional Credentials at the Strategy and Innovation Seminar at Boston University
February 2026:"Effective and Scalable Programs to Facilitate Labor Market Transitions for Women in Technology" featured in NBER Research Spotlight View spotlight
January 2026:Revised draft of "Effective and Scalable Programs to Facilitate Labor Market Transitions for Women in Technology" available as an NBER Working Paper
December 2025: New working paper "The Economics of Algorithmic Personalization: Evidence from an Educational Technology Platform" available on SSRN
December 2025: Presented The Value of Non-Traditional Credentials in the Labor Market at the University of Warsaw
December 2025: Presented The Value of Non-Traditional Credentials in the Labor Market at the European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society
November 2025:Revised draft of "The Value of Non-Traditional Credentials in the Labor Market" available on arXiv
November 2025:Revised draft of "Effective and Scalable Programs to Facilitate Labor Market Transitions for Women in Technology" available on arXiv
November 2025:Presented Better Together: Quantifying the Benefits of AI-Assisted Recruitment as a plenary talk at CODE@MIT
November 2025:Presented The Value of Non-Traditional Credentials in the Labor Market at the Northeast Universities Development Consortium 2025 Conference
September 2025:Presented Personalized Recommendations in Edtech: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial at the AI in Social Science Conferenece
September 2025:Presented The Value of Non-Traditional Credentials in the Labor Market at the Advances with Field Experiments Conference
July 2025:Presented Smiles in Profiles: Improving Efficiency While Reducing Disparities in Online Marketplaces at the NBER Summer Institute
July 2025:Presented The Value of Non-Traditional Credentials in the Labor Market at the Platform Strategy Research Symposium
July 2025:New working paper "Better Together: Quantifying the Benefits of AI-Assisted Recruitment" available on arXiv
June 2025:Presented Smiles in Profiles: Improving Efficiency While Reducing Disparities in Online Marketplaces at the ECOP Workshop on Economics of Platforms in Barcelona
June 2025:Revised draft of "The Impact of Shared Telecom Infrastructure on Digital Connectivity and Inclusion" available on arXiv
I am also the founder of MoveUp, an AI platform for team productivity.