Tianyu Jiang

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Michigan.

My research is in the economics of artificial intelligence and political economy. I study how generative AI changes productivity and inequality in knowledge work, and how beliefs, incentives and social image shape political behavior and economic outcomes.

I am on the 2026–2027 academic job market.

Before Michigan, I was a predoctoral research fellow at SIEPR and the University of Chicago.