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Jesse Silbert

@SilbertJesse

Princeton Econ PhD Student studying IO, Labor, AI, and Market Design. I am on the 2025-2026 academic job market.

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Joined May 2019
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@joshgansJan 17
Absolutely first class post from @alexolegimas and Andrey. aleximas.substack.com/p/why-…
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Very excited to see my JMP (with Anaïs Galdin) covered by the Economist! Read the full paper here: jesse-silbert.github.io/webs… #EconTwitter
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@TheEconomist14 Nov 2025
A good cover letter serves as a form of signalling, demonstrating that the applicant cares enough about the position to go through a laborious process. Or, at least, it used to economist.com/finance-and-ec…

How AI is breaking cover letters

And leading to lower pay

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Jesse Silbert’s (@SilbertJesse) job market paper studies how Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, through automating writing, disrupt labor markets that rely on writing as a costly signal of match quality. jesse-silbert.github.io/webs…
Jesse Silbert: Making Talk Cheap: Generative AI and Labor Market Signaling. Areas: Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, and Economics of AI. Letter Writers: Simon Jäger, Adam Kapor (advisor), Jakub Kastl (advisor), Alessandro Lizzeri (advisor).

ALT Jesse Silbert: Making Talk Cheap: Generative AI and Labor Market Signaling. Areas: Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, and Economics of AI. Letter Writers: Simon Jäger, Adam Kapor (advisor), Jakub Kastl (advisor), Alessandro Lizzeri (advisor).

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@paulnovosad4 Nov 2025
What happens when online job applicants start using LLMs? It ain't good. 1. Pre-LLM, cover letter quality predicts your work quality, and a good cover gets you a job 2. LLMs wipe out the signal, and employer demand falls 3. Model suggests high ability workers lose the most 1/n
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Alex Mas
@AMLabEcon17 Apr 2024
So proud of my fantastic student @tsaocaro
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We had a fantastic couple of days at the 2nd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on Economics of Education!🥳 Thanks everyone for making this such a terrific event!🫂 Congratulations to @tsaocaro (@PrincetonEcon) for winning the best paper award! Travel well! nitter.cf/Woessmann/status/17797…
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🚨New paper🚨 Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models Joint w/@sarafish_& @RanShorrer LLM use is automating many business decisions. Pricing might be next (or is already). What if multiple firms decide in good faith to use off-the-shelf-LLMs for pricing? 1/3 #EconTwitter
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Recently accepted to REStud, ``Dynamic Demand Estimation in Auction Markets'', from Backus and Lewis: restud.com/dynamic-demand-es…
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Shengwu Li@ShengwuLi24 Mar 2024
An econ multiverse crossover: It's (labor econ) x (auction theory). Here's a big update on the salary benchmarks paper that I wrote with @zoebcullen and @pereztruglia.
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.@DerekWenning’s job market paper evaluates how national pricing regulation in the US life insurance industry shapes insurers' geographic footprints. derekwenning.github.io/files…
Derek Wenning Paper Title: Equal Prices, Unequal Access: The Effects of National Pricing in the US Life Insurance Industry Areas: Finance, Macroeconomics, Spatial Economics Letter Writers: Ezra Oberfield (advisor), Motohiro Yogo, Richard Rogerson, and Wei Xiong

ALT Derek Wenning Paper Title: Equal Prices, Unequal Access: The Effects of National Pricing in the US Life Insurance Industry Areas: Finance, Macroeconomics, Spatial Economics Letter Writers: Ezra Oberfield (advisor), Motohiro Yogo, Richard Rogerson, and Wei Xiong

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Quan Le’s (@qlquanle) job market paper asks if exclusive vertical contracts intended to be anti-competitive in one market segment can be pro-competitive in another. qlquanle.github.io/newswires…
Quan Le Paper Title: Network Competition and Exclusive Contracts: Evidence from News Agencies Areas: Industrial Organization and Economic History Letter Writers: Kate Ho (advisor), Leah Boustan, Nicholas Buchholz, and Jakub Kastl

ALT Quan Le Paper Title: Network Competition and Exclusive Contracts: Evidence from News Agencies Areas: Industrial Organization and Economic History Letter Writers: Kate Ho (advisor), Leah Boustan, Nicholas Buchholz, and Jakub Kastl

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Karl Schulze’s job market paper asks: is returning to community college later in life an effective way for workers to adapt to adverse shocks? dropbox.com/scl/fi/g18uqliwi…
Karl Schulze Paper Title: Re-skilling, Up-skilling, and the Role of Education in the Adjustment to Economic Shocks Areas: Labor Economics and Applied Microeconomics Letter Writers: Adam Kapor, Leah Boustan, Bo Honoré, and Chris Neilson

ALT Karl Schulze Paper Title: Re-skilling, Up-skilling, and the Role of Education in the Adjustment to Economic Shocks Areas: Labor Economics and Applied Microeconomics Letter Writers: Adam Kapor, Leah Boustan, Bo Honoré, and Chris Neilson

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Rachel Fung’s (@rachelylfung) job market paper studies how the increase in tubal sterilizations in the 1970s affected completed fertility and female labor supply. rachelylfung.github.io/files…
Rachel Fung Paper Title: The Power of Tubal Sterilization: Permanent Contraception, Fertility and Female Labor Supply Areas: Labor Economics and Public Economics Letter Writers: Leah Boustan (advisor), Ilyana Kuziemko (advisor), and Henry Farber

ALT Rachel Fung Paper Title: The Power of Tubal Sterilization: Permanent Contraception, Fertility and Female Labor Supply Areas: Labor Economics and Public Economics Letter Writers: Leah Boustan (advisor), Ilyana Kuziemko (advisor), and Henry Farber

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Jordan Richmond’s (@j_w_richmond) job market paper studies the impacts of limiting interest deductions on firms' investment and financing choices using U.S. tax data. jordan-richmond.github.io/re…
Jordan Richmond Paper Title: Tax Policy, Investment, and Firm Financing: Evidence from the U.S. Interest Limitation Areas: Public Economics and Corporate Finance Letter Writers: Owen Zidar (advisor), Ilyana Kuziemko, and Richard Rogerson

ALT Jordan Richmond Paper Title: Tax Policy, Investment, and Firm Financing: Evidence from the U.S. Interest Limitation Areas: Public Economics and Corporate Finance Letter Writers: Owen Zidar (advisor), Ilyana Kuziemko, and Richard Rogerson

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Jacob Dorn’s job market paper studies hospital–insurer bargaining. American health insurers negotiate hospital prices as fixed multiples of benchmark prices like hospital-set list prices or Medicare reimbursement. jacobdorn.info/files/job-mar…
Jacob Dorn Paper Title: Dynamic Bargaining between Hospitals and Insurers Areas: Industrial Organization and Health Economics Letter Writers: Kate Ho (advisor), Alessandro Lizzeri, and Ulrich Müller

ALT Jacob Dorn Paper Title: Dynamic Bargaining between Hospitals and Insurers Areas: Industrial Organization and Health Economics Letter Writers: Kate Ho (advisor), Alessandro Lizzeri, and Ulrich Müller

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Eduard Boehm’s (@eboehmg) job market paper studies the role of intermediaries in a pension and annuity market where choosing products is difficult and costly. eduardboehm.com/documents/bo…
Eduard Boehm Paper Title: Intermediation, Choice Frictions, and Adverse Selection: Evidence from the Chilean Pension Market Areas: Industrial Organization and Public Finance Letter Writers: Kate Ho (advisor), Alessandro Lizzeri (advisor), and Jakub Kastl

ALT Eduard Boehm Paper Title: Intermediation, Choice Frictions, and Adverse Selection: Evidence from the Chilean Pension Market Areas: Industrial Organization and Public Finance Letter Writers: Kate Ho (advisor), Alessandro Lizzeri (advisor), and Jakub Kastl

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Anaïs Galdin’s job market paper investigates market failures causing persistent shortages in generic injectable pharmaceutical markets. Building a unique dataset that traces U.S. drugs to global factories, she ties reduced resilience to offshoring. agaldin.github.io/webfiles/G…
Anaïs Galdin Paper Title: Resilience of Global Supply Chains and Generic Drug Shortages Areas: International Trade, Spatial Economics, and Health Economics Letter Writers: Eduardo Morales (advisor), Stephen Redding (advisor), and Janet Currie

ALT Anaïs Galdin Paper Title: Resilience of Global Supply Chains and Generic Drug Shortages Areas: International Trade, Spatial Economics, and Health Economics Letter Writers: Eduardo Morales (advisor), Stephen Redding (advisor), and Janet Currie

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Quan Le 🗞️@qlquanle27 Mar 2023
ok there's a legit japanese grocery store that just opened in the middle of princeton and it's by far the most exciting thing to happen to this town since i've been here
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@ESPNF112 Dec 2021
MAX VERSTAPPEN WINS THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ON THE FINAL LAP!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT 🏆🤯
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@F112 Dec 2021
The first Dutch world champion 🇳🇱 #AbuDhabiGP #F1
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@ESPNF112 Dec 2021
What a wing man 👏
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