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Evidence (2066 claims)

Adoption
8570 claims
Productivity
7631 claims
Governance
6869 claims
Human-AI Collaboration
6491 claims
Org Design
4175 claims
Innovation
4114 claims
Labor Markets
3566 claims
Skills & Training
2966 claims
Inequality
2066 claims

Evidence Matrix

Claim counts by outcome category and direction of finding.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 758 199 100 900 2007
Governance & Regulation 826 400 191 122 1563
Organizational Efficiency 777 193 124 84 1189
Technology Adoption Rate 635 233 124 97 1098
Research Productivity 422 128 57 336 954
Output Quality 476 179 59 47 761
Decision Quality 328 177 81 47 640
Firm Productivity 435 57 88 20 606
AI Safety & Ethics 218 277 65 33 599
Market Structure 180 170 123 24 502
Task Allocation 213 64 72 33 387
Skill Acquisition 170 61 61 17 309
Innovation Output 203 27 43 18 292
Employment Level 105 54 107 13 281
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 131 69 43 26 276
Consumer Welfare 117 63 42 11 233
Firm Revenue 153 48 26 3 230
Task Completion Time 173 31 8 12 225
Inequality Measures 44 122 49 6 221
Worker Satisfaction 89 65 22 12 188
Error Rate 69 92 10 2 173
Regulatory Compliance 77 69 14 5 165
Automation Exposure 56 56 26 13 154
Training Effectiveness 94 21 13 19 149
Wages & Compensation 77 36 25 6 144
Team Performance 86 17 27 10 141
Developer Productivity 95 17 14 6 133
Job Displacement 12 80 20 1 113
Hiring & Recruitment 52 7 8 3 70
Creative Output 31 18 8 3 61
Skill Obsolescence 5 46 6 1 58
Social Protection 27 16 8 2 53
Labor Share of Income 17 19 17 53
Worker Turnover 11 12 3 26
Industry 1 1
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Climate change intensifies direct harms to children (heat injury, extreme weather injury) and indirect harms (food insecurity, mental health impacts, shifting disease ecologies).
Climate-health literature and sectoral reports synthesized; references to observational studies and modeling showing associations between climate events and the listed harms (no pooled effect sizes).
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... incidence of heat-related illness, injury from extreme weather, food insecurity ...
Pediatric and neonatal AMR pose distinct clinical and surveillance challenges compared to adult AMR.
Clinical literature and surveillance reports synthesized in the review highlighting differences in pathogen spectra, dosing, diagnostics, and reporting for pediatric/neonatal populations; narrative description without quantitative synthesis.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... adequacy of clinical management and surveillance sensitivity for AMR in pediatri...
Children are disproportionately exposed to antimicrobial-resistant pathogens via clinical care, community transmission, food chains, and environmental contamination.
Synthesis of clinical studies, community surveillance reports, food-safety literature, and environmental microbiology studies; review notes pediatric and environmental sources but provides no pooled prevalence estimates.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... exposure/infection rates with antimicrobial-resistant pathogens in children
Children's dependence on caregivers and local ecosystems (for nutrition, shelter, sanitation) increases vulnerability to ecosystem-level shocks.
Social and public-health literature integrated in the review describing caregiver-mediated dependence and ecosystem service reliance; qualitative and observational evidence rather than quantitative pooled estimates.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... child health outcomes mediated by caregiver capacity and local ecosystem integri...
Children are uniquely vulnerable within the One Health nexus because physiological immaturity, developmental sensitivity, behavior-driven exposures, and ecosystem dependence make them disproportionately affected by AMR, climate change, and emerging zoonotic/vector-borne infections.
Narrative synthesis of interdisciplinary peer-reviewed studies, surveillance reports, and policy literature; biological and epidemiological reasoning rather than a pooled quantitative analysis; heterogeneous and cross-disciplinary evidence summarized by the authors.
medium negative Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on... overall child vulnerability to AMR, climate change, and zoonotic/vector-borne in...
Holding schools liable under federal civil‑rights statutes is sometimes possible but often insufficient to prevent or remediate harms caused by EdTech products.
Policy argumentation and doctrinal analysis with hypotheticals and illustrative cases demonstrating enforcement limitations when only schools are targeted (no empirical prevalence data).
medium negative Civil Rights and the EdTech Revolution effectiveness of school‑only liability in preventing/remediating EdTech discrimi...
Regulatory frameworks often lack tools for algorithmic accountability, data portability, and cross-border enforcement for platformed services.
Policy and regulatory studies reviewed in the paper; assessment based on gap analysis rather than new regulatory audit data.
medium negative Financial Inclusion in the Age of FinTech Platforms: Opportu... availability of regulatory tools (algorithmic accountability, data portability);...
Algorithmic bias—stemming from training data, feature selection, or proxy variables—can produce systematic discrimination (for example, gendered access to credit).
Reviewed empirical and methodological studies on algorithmic fairness; paper cites documented instances and outlines mechanisms but does not present original audit data.
medium negative Financial Inclusion in the Age of FinTech Platforms: Opportu... disparate treatment/outcomes by demographic group (e.g., gender) in credit decis...
Data asymmetry and differential digital footprints create information advantages for platforms and reinforce borrower segmentation.
Theoretical argument supported by literature on data externalities and platform information advantages; illustrated with case examples rather than new data analysis.
medium negative Financial Inclusion in the Age of FinTech Platforms: Opportu... information asymmetry metrics; borrower segmentation (heterogeneity in credit of...
Differential digital literacy, device/infrastructure access, and biased data-driven decision rules can exclude or disadvantage groups.
Conceptual synthesis and references to documented cases of digital divides and algorithmic bias in existing literature; no new empirical measurement provided.
medium negative Financial Inclusion in the Age of FinTech Platforms: Opportu... access disparities by digital literacy/device access; biased decision outcomes (...
Without deliberate governance, platformization can amplify exclusion through data asymmetries, algorithmic bias, gendered barriers, infrastructure gaps, and market concentration.
Literature synthesis and illustrative examples of platform dynamics and algorithmic decision rules; no systematic causal estimates in the paper.
medium negative Financial Inclusion in the Age of FinTech Platforms: Opportu... exclusion (access disparities by gender, connectivity, digital literacy); market...
FinTech simultaneously creates new structural inequalities and systemic risks.
Argumentative synthesis of theoretical and empirical work across development finance and regulatory studies; illustrative case examples referenced (e.g., platform market effects and algorithmic decision-making).
medium negative Financial Inclusion in the Age of FinTech Platforms: Opportu... inequality (distributional outcomes); systemic financial risk
Short-run displacement risks from AI adoption create distributional concerns that warrant active labor market policies (retraining, wage insurance) and portable social protections.
Worker-level evidence of short-run employment losses in routine occupations, particularly in emerging economies, and literature synthesis on displacement effects motivating policy recommendations.
medium negative S-TCO: A Sustainable Teacher Context Ontology for Educationa... short-run employment changes in vulnerable occupations and implied welfare/distr...
Framing policy as 'Digital Sovereignty' supports data‑localization and stronger cross‑border constraints, which will affect multinational fintechs and cross‑border credit/data services.
Policy-framing and international governance analysis in the compendium; inference about cross‑border regulatory impacts rather than measured effects.
medium negative Diego Saucedo Portillo Sauceport Research degree of data localization measures enacted, changes in cross‑border data flows...
Mandatory white‑box transparency and audit requirements are likely to favor firms that can afford compliance (larger incumbents and certified auditors), potentially raising barriers to entry for small fintechs unless mitigated by proportional rules or sandboxes.
Economic inference and market-structure analysis presented in the "Market structure & competition" section; no empirical panel or field data (theoretical reasoning).
medium negative Diego Saucedo Portillo Sauceport Research barriers to entry / market concentration / number of small fintech entrants
Poorly calibrated rules may unintentionally restrict product offerings or increase costs for low‑income borrowers if compliance expenses are passed through.
Risk analysis and economic reasoning in the compendium; projection based on standard pass‑through and market equilibrium logic (no empirical measurement provided).
medium negative Diego Saucedo Portillo Sauceport Research product availability, costs (interest rates/fees) for low‑income borrowers
Recognition of digital sovereignty and data‑localization pressures can fragment data flows, increasing costs for cross‑border model training and lowering scale economies that benefit high‑quality AI.
Policy and economic analysis in the compendium drawing on comparative examples and theory about data localization and scale economies; no empirical cost accounting provided.
medium negative Diego Saucedo Portillo Sauceport Research cross‑border data flows, costs of model training, scale economies in AI developm...
Replacing opaque predictive features with interpretable substitutes could reduce predictive accuracy in some models, creating trade‑offs between fairness/transparency and short‑term efficiency.
Synthesis of technical AI governance literature and normative design discussion in the compendium; no new experimental validation reported.
medium negative Diego Saucedo Portillo Sauceport Research predictive accuracy of credit-scoring models; measures of fairness/transparency
Mandatory white‑box requirements and audits will raise compliance costs, which can increase barriers to entry for smaller fintechs and favor incumbents unless mitigated by supporting measures.
Economic reasoning and policy analysis in the AI economics section; theoretical projection based on compliance cost effects (no empirical trial reported).
medium negative Diego Saucedo Portillo Sauceport Research compliance costs for fintechs; barriers to market entry (market structure effect...
AI substitutes for and displaces many routine and low-skill occupations, increasing automation risk for those roles.
Multiple empirical studies in the reviewed sample document higher automation/substitution risk and observed employment declines in routine/low-skill tasks and occupations.
medium negative The role of generative artificial intelligence on labor mark... employment levels in routine and low-skill occupations
Young workers experience pronounced negative effects in occupations exposed to AI.
Demographic breakdowns in occupation-level analyses showing larger employment declines (or weaker employment growth) for younger cohorts in AI-exposed occupations.
medium negative Bridging Skill Gaps for the Future Employment outcomes for young workers in AI-exposed occupations
Diffusion of AI skills is associated with lower employment in occupations that are both highly exposed to AI and have low complementarity with it.
Panel/cross-sectional analyses linking occupation-level AI exposure and measured worker–AI complementarity to employment changes, using occupation classifications of exposure and complementarity.
medium negative Bridging Skill Gaps for the Future Employment changes in occupations with high AI exposure and low complementarity
Middle-skilled occupations are most at risk, contributing to a shrinking middle class (declines in middle-skilled employment).
Occupation-level analyses showing employment declines concentrated in middle-skilled occupations as new skills (IT/AI) diffuse.
medium negative Bridging Skill Gaps for the Future Employment levels in middle-skilled occupations
AI adoption can reinforce winner‑take‑most market dynamics and increase market concentration due to data‑ and AI‑driven advantages.
Theoretical arguments and industry analyses on platform markets and data economies; empirical market‑structure studies and descriptive evidence cited in the review; the claim is derived from synthesis rather than a single causal identification design.
medium negative The Impact of AI Machine Learning on Human Labor in the Work... market concentration measures and firm market shares (competition outcomes)
Impacts of AI on labor are uneven globally: developing regions face larger risks due to digital infrastructure gaps, limited reskilling capacity, and weaker social protections.
Cross‑country comparative analyses, policy and industry reports highlighting infrastructure and institutional differences, and sectoral case studies; review notes geographic bias toward advanced economies in the empirical literature, making some cross‑region inference provisional.
medium negative The Impact of AI Machine Learning on Human Labor in the Work... vulnerability to job displacement, capacity for reskilling, and distributional i...
There is widespread displacement of routine and lower‑skilled tasks associated with AI and automation.
Task‑based analyses decomposing occupations into automatable vs augmentable tasks, econometric studies correlating measures of automation/AI exposure with declines in employment and/or hours in routine occupations, and industry reports documenting automation of routine tasks; evidence is largely from cross‑country and country‑specific empirical work summarized in the review.
medium negative The Impact of AI Machine Learning on Human Labor in the Work... employment levels and task content in routine and lower‑skilled occupations
Prevailing reskilling strategies assume access to stable employment, time and funds for training, certification systems, and institutional support — conditions that are weak or absent for informal platform workers; therefore standard reskilling policies are poorly suited to this context.
Qualitative synthesis of policy analyses and literature on reskilling programs and labour-market institutions; conceptual critique rather than new empirical testing.
medium negative Who Loses to Automation? AI-Driven Labour Displacement and t... effectiveness of reskilling programs in producing stable employment outcomes for...
Algorithmic management (opaque algorithms for assignment, pricing, and performance metrics) restructures platform work in ways that both change task composition and intensify precarity, reducing workers' ability to adapt to automation.
Draws on prior empirical studies and policy analyses of algorithmic management cited in the literature review; no new empirical data collected in this paper.
medium negative Who Loses to Automation? AI-Driven Labour Displacement and t... worker precarity and adaptability (e.g., job security, ability to transition to ...
Task versus job displacement operate differently across institutional contexts: in formal labour markets, task automation can be accommodated through reallocation or protections, while in informal platform work task loss typically becomes outright job loss.
Argument built from secondary literature comparing formal and informal labour-market institutions and existing empirical studies on reallocation mechanisms; conceptual analysis in the paper (qualitative synthesis only).
medium negative Who Loses to Automation? AI-Driven Labour Displacement and t... rate of worker reallocation vs complete job loss following task automation
AI-driven automation in platform-based informal work in India primarily displaces tasks, but because workers lack job security, institutional protections, and access to alternative labour tracks, task-level automation often manifests as full job displacement.
Synthesis of prior empirical studies, policy analyses, and theoretical work on platform-based labour and automation focused on India and comparable developing-country settings; conceptual framing distinguishing task-level vs job-level effects; no primary data or new empirical analysis in this paper.
medium negative Who Loses to Automation? AI-Driven Labour Displacement and t... job displacement / employment loss among platform-based informal workers
Reduced labor shares disproportionately harm lower- and middle-skill workers relative to higher-skill workers, increasing distributional inequality.
Micro and firm-case analyses linking K_T exposure to occupation- and skill-level wage/employment outcomes; regressions showing heterogeneous effects across skill groups; supporting evidence from sectoral studies.
medium negative The Macroeconomic Transition of Technological Capital in the... employment and wages by skill group; inequality indicators across skill deciles
The loss of labor share and payrolls materially undermines PAYG pension sustainability and payroll-tax revenue bases under realistic adoption trajectories.
Dynamic general equilibrium overlapping-generations model calibrated and simulated to incorporate substitution between labor and K_T and a PAYG pension sector; fiscal simulations show declining contributor bases and pressure on pension balances; sensitivity analyses across adoption speeds.
medium negative The Macroeconomic Transition of Technological Capital in the... PAYG pension sustainability metrics (e.g., contribution-revenue ratios, projecte...
Wages for workers in K_T‑intensive firms/industries fall or grow more slowly relative to less-exposed counterparts, compressing wage contributions to income.
Panel regressions estimating wage outcomes conditional on K_T intensity measures, with controls and robustness specifications; supported by matched employer‑employee microdata in case studies and industry-level decompositions.
medium negative The Macroeconomic Transition of Technological Capital in the... wage levels and wage growth
Standard GDP statistics can mask AI-driven demand shortfalls; central banks and statistical agencies should therefore monitor labor-share–velocity links, distributional income measures, and consumption by income quantile in addition to headline GDP.
Theoretical Ghost GDP channel and calibration results showing divergence between measured GDP and consumption-relevant income; policy recommendation follows from those model results.
medium neutral Abundant Intelligence and Deficient Demand: A Macro-Financia... detection of demand shortfalls (labor-share–velocity relationship and consumptio...
Time-series metrics (e.g., derivatives like d/dt(student enrollment)) are useful monitoring signals for validation and system oversight.
Methodological suggestion in the paper proposing time-series analysis of enrollment and other administrative data; no empirical demonstration or threshold criteria provided.
medium neutral Establishes a technical and academic bridge between the educ... sensitivity of monitoring to enrollment changes, anomaly detection lead time
Generative AI (GenAI) is the first automation wave to reach high-cognitive tasks at scale.
Framing statement in the paper's introduction, supported by the authors' literature-based argumentation (not primary empirical evidence within this paper).
medium null result Generative AI impacts on intra-urban inequality and skill pr... scope of automation reach (high-cognitive task automation at scale)
Mobile penetration reaches 84% (in the context of low-income countries), a statistic used to motivate RSI's potential reach.
Single numeric statistic reported in the paper as background context; source or empirical basis for the statistic not provided within the supplied text.
medium null result Revenue-Sharing as Infrastructure: A Distributed Business Mo... mobile penetration rate (percent)
Many AI-assisted decision systems operate in competitive settings (e.g., admission or hiring) where only a fraction of candidates can succeed.
Authors' characterization of real-world contexts motivating the study (literature-based/contextual claim within the paper).
medium null result Actionable Recourse in Competitive Environments: A Dynamic G... prevalence of competitive selection constraints (fraction of candidates selected...
A Sankey diagram of thematic evolution shows lexical convergence over time and indicates that a small set of authors has disproportionate influence in structuring the discourse.
Thematic evolution analysis visualized with a Sankey diagram; author influence inferred from performance trends (citations/publication counts) in the bibliometric data.
medium null result Generative AI and the algorithmic workplace: a bibliometric ... lexical convergence across themes and concentration of author influence (disprop...
Distributed agency (Problem C) complicates classical principal–agent models; economists should develop models that capture multiple, overlapping agents and ambiguous attribution of outcomes.
Conceptual implication for economic modeling derived from the paper’s diagnosis of distributed agency; recommendation for formal modeling and simulations but none provided.
medium null result Examining ethical challenges in human–robot interaction usin... adequacy of classical principal–agent models to represent distributed agency (th...
Existing research largely focuses on general computer literacy and lacks precise measurement of the economic returns to specific vocational digital skills.
Paper's literature review and motivating statements (qualitative assessment of prior studies; no quantitative meta-analysis reported in the excerpt).
medium null result Measuring the Economic Returns of Vocational Digital Skills ... coverage/precision of prior research on economic returns to vocational digital s...
Early evidence from nationally representative datasets shows limited aggregate wage and employment changes following GenAI's emergence.
Empirical analyses referenced in the paper that use nationally representative population-level datasets (specific datasets and sample sizes not provided in the excerpt).
medium null result The Impact of Generative AI on the Future of Employment: Opp... aggregate wages and employment levels
Empirically, many markets are concentrated and characterized by large, dominant employers.
Empirical assertion in the paper; the excerpt does not provide the datasets, measures of concentration (e.g., HHI), sample sizes, or citations supporting this statement.
medium null result Labor Market Power: From Micro Evidence to Macro Consequence... market concentration / presence of large dominant employers
Previous studies have identified language barriers as impediments to labor market engagement but empirical information assessing both policy reductions and the relative efficacy of professional, AI-assisted, and hybrid translation methods is scarce.
Paper's literature review claim that existing literature documents language barriers but lacks comparative empirical evaluations of policy reductions and multiple translation models; asserted as motivation for current study.
medium null result Translation Models Empowering Immigrant Workforce Integratio... state of literature (presence/absence of comparative empirical evidence)
The Photo Big 5 is only weakly correlated with cognitive measures such as test scores.
Correlation/associational analysis between Photo Big 5 trait scores and cognitive measures (e.g., test scores) reported for the MBA graduate sample.
medium null result AI Personality Extraction from Faces: Labor Market Implicati... correlation with cognitive measures / test scores
The study explores the influence of AI on HRM practice specifically within top IT companies.
Scope statement in the paper: empirical study involved HR professionals from various (described as top) IT firms. The summary does not supply the list of companies or sampling criteria.
medium null result AI-Driven Decision Making and Digital Recruitment: Transform... influence of AI on HRM practices within selected IT companies
The paper contributes to both theory and policy by reconceptualizing procurement value and offering an actionable roadmap for embedding ESG principles in public healthcare procurement.
Scholarly contribution claimed via literature synthesis and framework/roadmap creation; contribution is normative and conceptual rather than empirically validated.
medium null result Greening the Medicaid Supply Chain: An ESG-Integrated Framew... academic and policy contributions (theoretical reconceptualization and practical...
We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature on AI/HR analytics and organizational decision making, using 85 publications and grounding the work in theories of algorithm-automated decision-making (AST) and matching/hybrid models (STS).
Paper's methods: systematic review and meta-analysis; sample = 85 publications; theoretical framing explicitly stated as AST and STS.
medium null result ALGORITHMIC DETERMINISM VERSUS HUMAN AGENCY: A SYSTEMATIC RE... scope/coverage of literature (number of publications reviewed); theoretical fram...
No significant differences emerged in job titles and industry suggested by GPT-5 across genders.
Empirical finding from analysis of GPT-5 outputs comparing suggested job titles and industries for the 24 profiles; exact statistical tests not specified in the summary.
medium null result Gender Bias in Generative AI-assisted Recruitment Processes suggested job titles and industry assignments by GPT-5 across male and female pr...
AI will not cause permanent mass unemployment at the aggregate level.
Analytical argument and literature synthesis using labor-economics theory (Skill-Biased Technological Change and structural transformation). No primary microdata, no stated empirical identification strategy or sample size in the paper (methodology appears to be theoretical and sectoral synthesis).
medium null result Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Employment Dynamics... aggregate employment / unemployment