Emma Wiles (née van Inwegen)

I hold the Isabel Anderson Career Development Professorship at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, and am an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems group. I am also a digital fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and a faculty fellow in BU’s Digital Business Institute. My research examines how AI is changing hiring and work, for both workers and firms. I use large-scale field experiments with hiring platforms and inside organizations to study not only whether AI improves productivity, but who benefits, who bears the costs, and which design choices determine whether AI improves matching and expands opportunity. I have published in top management and economics journals such as Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, AEJ: Economic Policy, and Harvard Business Review. My work has been covered in major media outlets and policy reports including the New York Times, the Economist, the Financial Times, US White House, and US Senate.

In the Summer of 2026 I am a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis to focus on AI’s implications on economic growth and the labor market.

I received my PhD from MIT Sloan in 2024. My dissertation titled “Artificial Intelligence and Labor Market Matching” won the University of Padua’s International PhD Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence in Entrepreneurship and Management (AIEM).

Previously I was a researcher at the University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance studying the effects of the Seattle minimum wage. I graduated with my undergraduate degree in mathematics and economics in 2015.

In my free time I enjoy musical theatre, the premier league and international football, and sampling the various playgrounds of Cambridge with my daughter and husband.

My CV is available here. Contact: emma [dot] b [dot] wiles [at] gmail [dot] com
Spouse: Edward Wiles. (Trade and Development Economist)