Sonia Jaffe

I am a Senior Principal Researcher Economist in Microsoft's AI for Good Lab.

Recently my work has focused on how AI is changing jobs and labor markets. I am part of Microsoft's New Future of Work initiative. I am more broady interested in a range of topics in applied theory; prior projects have spanned health economics, matching theory, public finance, and industrial organization.

Before joining the Economics and Computation group, I was part of Microsoft's Office of the Chief Economist from 2018 to 2022. Prior to that, I was a postdoc at the Becker Friedman Institute and the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. I received my PhD from the Harvard University Economics Department in May, 2015. While there I was an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business.

I graduated with honors in economics from the University of Chicago in 2008. During summer 2010, I worked at the Federal Trade Commission, in the Bureau of Economic Research. In 2012-2013 I visited the University of Chicago as a pre-doctoral scholar at the Becker Friedman Institute.

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When not doing economics, I like to play board games, (attempt to) solve word puzzles, and do acroyoga.