Revealing Life Preferences Through LLMs

For helpful comments, we thank Ben Bushong, Katherine Coffman, Sendhil Mullainathan, Paul Novosad, Suproteem Sarkar, Andrei Shleifer, Adi Sunderam, Dmitry Taubinsky, and Hans-Joachim Voth, and participants at various seminars and conferences. We thank Isabel Galea, Alex Philip, and Julia Schwed for outstanding research assistance. This work is supported by Harvard Business School; the European Research Council (ERC) under the FELICITAS grant (No. 101165518); and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2126/1 – 390838866. Views and opinions expressed are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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