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PublishedApril 6, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Measuring What Cannot Be Surveyed: LLMs as Instruments for Latent Cognitive Variables in Labor Economics
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arXiv:2604.02403v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper establishes the theoretical and practical foundations for using Large Language Models (LLMs) as measurement instruments for latent economic variables -- specifically variables that describe the cognitive content of occupational tasks at a
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