How Justin Wolfers appears in AI

The profile below was assembled from public web search results — bios, press, and company pages.

Built from public web sources, not a neutral encyclopedia — treat identity accuracy as directional.

Current role

Professor of Economics and Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Current affiliation

University of Michigan

Field of work

Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, Economics of the Family, Social Policy, Law and Economics, Political Economy, Behavioral Economics, Happiness and income research, Prediction markets

Nationality

Australian-American

Date of birth

1972-12-11

Education

B.A. in Economics (First Class Honors), University of Sydney, 1994 (University Medal winner), M.A. in Economics, Harvard University, 2000, Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, 2001

Notable work

Principles of Microeconomics (2019, co-authored with Betsey Stevenson), Principles of Macroeconomics (2019, co-authored with Betsey Stevenson), Think Like an Economist podcast (co-hosted with Betsey Stevenson), Platypus Economics newsletter on Substack (launched Spring 2026), Research on happiness and its relation to income, Contributing columns for The New York Times (Upshot blog)

We asked each model "Who is Justin Wolfers?" — with and without web browsing — and compared the answer to the neutral source baseline. Average identity accuracy 91/100 across 4 models. Cross-model consistency 94/100.

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Claude

without web browsing

82/100 accurate

Differences vs. neutral source

Role accurateEmployer accurate

Contains outdated (once-correct) information

• Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
• Senior Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution

The response accurately describes Wolfers' current roles at the University of Michigan and Peterson Institute, correctly identifies his research areas, and appropriately characterizes him as a public intellectual. However, it includes factual errors regarding affiliations with NBER and Brookings Institution that are not supported by the known facts, and it omits the recent Platypus Economics newsletter launched in Spring 2026.

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Tracked attributes

Each narrative was semantically matched against the 33 AI answers collected for this report — the identity questions ("Who is this person?", with and without browsing) and the field-level discovery prompts, across every model tested. Select a narrative to see where it surfaced.