Natania Wong

I study how generative AI is reshaping the labor market.

Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Stanford HAI and SIEPR, working with Erik Brynjolfsson and Sarah Bana.

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About

My research examines how the rapid adoption of generative AI is reshaping work, from shifts in skill demand and changes in employment and earnings to the evolving nature of where and how people work. I am especially interested in who benefits, who is left behind, and how policy can support workers through periods of technological change.

I graduated from UC Berkeley in 2024 with a B.A. in Economics (with Honors) and a minor in Data Science. Before Stanford, I was a research assistant for Michael Reich at Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, studying California's $20 fast-food minimum wage. My senior honors thesis examined how the language spoken at home affects immigrants' wages and social mobility.

Outside of research, I am probably knitting or reading (Goodreads). Check out my knits on Off the Clock.

Interests
Labor Economics, Public Economics, AI & Economics, ML in Economics

Research & projects

  • Generative AI and the value of work activities

    Ongoing

    Stanford Digital Economy Lab · 2025 – now

  • Evaluation tooling for research pipelines

    Ongoing

    Stanford Digital Economy Lab · 2025 – now

Papers, prototypes and code will be linked here as they're ready.

Experience

  1. Predoctoral Research Fellow

    Jul 2025 – Present

    Stanford Digital Economy Lab · HAI · SIEPR

    PI: Erik Brynjolfsson.
    Data pipelines, LLM-based classification and causal estimates of how generative AI is changing the value of work.

  2. Research Assistant

    Sep 2024 – Jul 2025

    Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UC Berkeley

    PI: Michael Reich.
    California's $20 fast-food minimum wage, and income and education disparities in the Federal Reserve's SHED survey.

  3. B.A. Economics (Honors), Minor in Data Science

    May 2024

    University of California, Berkeley

    General Distinction. Senior honors thesis on language at home and immigrant mobility; Boskin Scholarship.