AI assistance raises the probability of correctly identifying the task's root cause for both education groups, with near-equalization among treated participants¶

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q3 i? Access to the AI assistant substantially raises correct root-cause identification for both groups, with larger gains for low-education participants and near-equalization among the treated. → Guillermo Cruces 2026

Evidence¶

Guillermo Cruces 2026¶

Guillermo Cruces, Diego Fernández Meijide, Sebastian Galiani, Ramiro H. Gálvez, María Lombardi. (2026). Does generative AI narrow education-based productivity gaps? Evidence from a randomized experiment. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/16607 doi:10.2139/ssrn.6246347

q3 · i? · causal · r3

Preregistered "detected root cause" indicator analysis in the results section of the randomized experiment; the article reports "near-equalization across groups among treated participants" with larger gains for low-education participants.

"Access to the AI assistant substantially raisestheprobabilityofcorrectlyidentifyingtherootcauseforbotheducationgroups, with larger gains for low-education participants, and near-equalization across groups among treated participants."

Discussion¶

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