The Heterogeneous Productivity Effects of Generative AI

David H. Kreitmeir and Paul Raschky

No 2024-01, SoDa Laboratories Working Paper Series from Monash University

Abstract: We analyse the individual productivity effects of Italy's ban on ChatGPT, a generative pretrained transformer chatbot. We compile data on the daily coding output quantity and quality of over 36,000 GitHub users in Italy and other European countries and combine these data with the sudden announcement of the ban in a difference-in-differences framework. Among the affected users in Italy, we find a short-term increase in output quantity and quality for less experienced users and a decrease in productivity on more routine tasks for experienced users.

Keywords: artificial intelligence; productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D8 J24 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-03-01
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