Benjamin Manning

Ph.D. Candidate

Benjamin is a Ph.D. student at MIT Sloan in the Information Technology group. He is interested in behavioral economics and how researchers can use generative AI to improve experimental methodology.

Before MIT, Benjamin worked as a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, conducting large-scale randomized controlled trials and studying bias in researcher decision-making. He has a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis.

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Working Papers The Coasean Singularity? Demand, Supply, and Market Design with AI Agents

September 18, 2025

John Horton | Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Benjamin Manning | Ph.D. Candidate
Andrey Fradkin | Assistant Professor, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

Peyman Shahidi

Gili Rusak

Working Papers As Generative Models Improve, People Adapt Their Prompts

July 19, 2024

David Holtz | Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School
Benjamin Manning | Ph.D. Candidate

Eaman Jahani

University of Maryland

Joe Zhang

Stanford University

Hong-Yi TuYe

MIT

Mohammed Alsobay

MIT

Siddharth Suri

Microsoft Research

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