DOES GENERATIVE AI NARROW EDUCATION-BASED PRODUCTIVITY GAPS?EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT

2026

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1) Generative AI significantly boosts productivity across all users, but disproportionately benefits those with lower educational attainment, effectively narrowing existing productivity gaps.

2) This paper presents findings from a randomized online experiment that tested the impact of generative AI on task performance for individuals with varying educational backgrounds. It details the experimental design, methodology for AI-assisted grading, and analyzes the results, including subcomponent performance and AI usage patterns.

3) Generative AI, education, productivity, AI impact, randomized experiment

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