Josh Kaisen

Post Doctoral Fellow - Director

Josh Kaisen

Bio

Josh received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of South Florida and his M.Sc. in Physics from the University at Buffalo where he was a CERN/CMS collaborator. Prior to joining the University of Houston, Josh worked as an Assistant Professor at St. Mary's College of Maryland, a top liberal arts college, where he led a team of students to win a national policy design competition—which included presenting their policy in front of the US Congress—and a second team to place as finalists in the competition the following year. Josh has published in renowned journals across multiple disciplines—Science, Physical Review Letters A, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization—and has an impressive research pipeline with several papers under review in top business journals. Josh applies skills developed in his Physics background to conduct large-scale natural experiments surrounding relevant business outcomes. Josh now directs the corporate outreach and education initiatives for the Human-Centered AI Institute where he launched a seminar series, co-founded a student organization, and organized several events.

Research Interests

  • Technology and Productivity
  • Reference-Dependent Decisions
  • Digital Platforms

Areas of Expertise

  • AI
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Labor Economics
  • Programming

Selected Publications

  • Barbos, A., and Kaisen, J. (2022) An example of negative wage elasticity for YouTube content creators. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 203:382-400
  • Chatrchyan, S. et al. (2014). Description and performance of track and primary-vertex reconstruction with the CMS tracker. Journal of Instrumentation, 9(10).
  • Fiorentini, G. et al. (2013). Measurement of muon neutrino quasielastic scattering on a hydrocarbon target at E=3.5 GeV. Physical Review Letters, 111.
  • Fiorentini, G. et al. (2013). Measurement of muon antineutrino quasielastic scattering on a hydrocarbon target at E=3.5 GeV. Physical Review Letters, 111.
  • CMS collaboration (2012). A new boson with a mass of 125 GeV observed with the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Science, 338(6114), 1569-1575.

Working Papers

  • AI and productivity: The impact of ChatGPT's release on blogging
  • AI training and misinformation
  • Compromise effect and price-closeness: Ranges of consideration
  • The effect of fairness on conformity in risky choice

    • Contact Info

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    Email:
    jkkaisen@uh.edu
    Room:
    MH 325
    Website:
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    Education

    Ph.D., Economics, University of South Florida
    M.Sc., Physics, University at Buffalo