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
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