About Me

I am a Postdoc at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, under the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), working with Erik Brynjolfsson.

Dissertation Title: Micro-Level Perspectives on the Future of Work – New Evidence on Workers’ Skill Returns and Firms’ Skill Demand

Research Interest

My research studies the future of work, focusing on how technological change reshapes skill demand and supply, worker careers, and firms’ hiring practices. I leverage large-scale text data from apprenticeship curricula and online job postings as well as administrative data and field experiments to estimate returns to skills and to analyze labor market adjustments to developments such as remote work, skills-based hiring, and artificial intelligence.

Email: christina_langer@outlook.com or langerc@stanford.edu

Announcements:

[January 2026]: Our paper "Firm-Training, Automation, and Wages: International Worker-Level Evidence" got accepted for publication in Research Policy.
[December 2025]: I presented on "AI in the Real World: Evidence, Experience, and Executive Insight" together with Angela Aristidou at the UCL School of Management
[August 2025]: I participated in the 8th Lindau Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences
[May 2025]: I received a "AI at Work" proposal development grant from Schmidt Sciences
[April 2025]: I was on a panel on the Challenges and Opportunities of AI at Volkswagen (together with representatives from AUDI AG and Microsoft)
[January 2025]: I was in Chicago for a research stay with John List
[January 2025]: I organized and chaired a session on "Technological Change and the Value of Skills" together with Sebastian Steffen at the ASSA 2025 in San Francisco
[June 2024]: I received the Roman Herzog Research Award (1st prize) for my dissertation and the KU best dissertation award
[May 2024]: I got appointed as Honorary Research Fellow at UCL - School of Management
[October 2023]: I started my Postdoc at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab with Erik Brynjolfsson