Ashesh Rambachan

Predoctoral Researcher MIT - Predoctoral Researcher - Cambridge MA 02139

Interested in using economics and AI + ML to better understand the world? Want to collaborate across economics and computer science?

Come work with me at MIT! Pre-doc position in econometrics and AI/ML starting Summer 2026.

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I just moved to the Bay Area and am excited to visit Stanford for the 2025-2026 academic year. If you're around and want to talk AI/economics or grab a Philz coffee, please reach out!

Looking forward to the NBER SI Thursday metrics session next week where we will be presenting work on remote sensed outcomes with Rahul Singh and Ashesh Rambachan. Here is the program www.nber.org/conferences/... and preview dviviano.github.io/projects/pre... Drop by if you are around!

Can an AI model predict perfectly and still have a terrible world model?

What would that even mean?

Our new ICML paper (poster tomorrow!) formalizes these questions.

One result tells the story: A transformer trained on 10M solar systems nails planetary orbits. But it botches gravitational laws 🧵

Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice* ABSTRACT. A researcher can use a tightly parameterized structural model to obtain internally consistent estimates of a wide range of economically interesti

#QJE Aug 2025, #3, “Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice,” by Andrews, Barahona (@nanobarahona.bsky.social), Gentzkow, Rambachan (@asheshrambachan.bsky.social), and Shapiro: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Enjoying a great day with #EctJ events at #RES2025. Stéphane Bonhomme gave the Sargan Lecture on dynamic feedback & unobserved heterogeneity in panel data. In EctJ’s Special Session, @asheshrambachan.bsky.social & Tim Christensen discussed challenges arising from using AI/LLMs in economic research

Machine Learning in Economics Summer Conference The MLESC conference brings together researchers working at the intersection of machine learning and economics.

The deadline to submit your work to the Machine Learning in Economics Summer Conference (MLESC) is in one week! Send us your work!

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Machine Learning in Economics Summer Conference The MLESC conference brings together researchers working at the intersection of machine learning and economics.

Reminder to submit your papers to the Machine Learning in Economics Summer Conference (MLESC) at Chicago Booth. The deadline is May 9th. We would love to read your work!

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Last chance to apply to this year's Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute, our AI/ML summer school for graduate students, co-organized with @sendhil.bsky.social @asheshrambachan.bsky.social @aleximas.bsky.social @lindseyraymond.bsky.social: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen... #econsky

Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice* Abstract. A researcher can use a tightly parameterized structural model to obtain internally consistent estimates of a wide range of economically interesti

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice,” by Andrews, Barahona (@nanobarahona.bsky.social), Gentzkow, Rambachan (@asheshrambachan.bsky.social), and Shapiro: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Digital Economics and AI Meeting, Spring 2025

Excited to spend the day at the NBER Digital Economics and AI Meeting!

I'll be presenting this paper on LLMs and empirical research: www.nber.org/papers/w33344

Full lineup of the conference: www.nber.org/conferences/...

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Applications are open for the Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute (MLESI) 2025 are open!

If you're a graduate student, come learn about ML/AI and its uses throughout economics.

Apply by March 28. The application and more info can be found here: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...