Research Reports
Project Swap: What Happens When Agents Trade for Us*
‍ ‍with Sylvie Carr, Tess Cotter, Kevin Troy, Maxim Massenkoff, and Peter McCrory
‍ ‍Anthropic Economic Research, September 2026

Agentic Coding and Persistent Returns to Expertise*
with Maxim Massenkoff, Eva Lyubich, Ryan Heller and Peter McCrory
‍ ‍Anthropic Economic Research, June 2026

Anthropic Economic Index: Cadences
with Maxim Massenkoff, Eva Lyubich, Szymon Sacher, Shaoyi Zhang, Ryan Heller and Peter McCrory
‍ ‍Anthropic Economics Research, June 2026

CoVal: Learning Values-aware Rubrics from the Crowd*
with Tyna Eloundou, Mitchell Gordon, Sandhini Agarwal and Adam Kalai
‍ ‍OpenAI Alignment Blog, January 2026

*Indicates lead author

Publications
Contextually Private Mechanisms
with Andreas Haupt
‍ ‍Forthcoming in American Economic Review, 2026
‍ ‍Extended abstract at EC, 2022
[Draft: December 2025]

Platform Growth is Hard: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Carpooling Platform
with Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Ruimin He and Xin Wei Ngiam
‍ ‍Forthcoming in Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
[Draft: October 2025]

The Consistency Dilemma in LLMs: Generator-Evaluator Agreement and Vulnerability to Mistakes
with Marina Mancoridis
‍ ‍Forthcoming at ICML, 2026
‍ ‍[Paper]

AI’s Use of Knowledge in Society
with Erik Brynjolfsson
‍ ‍Forthcoming in NBER Volume on Transformative AI, 2026
[Draft: September 2025]

Contextual Confidence and Generative AI
with Shrey Jain and Pamela Mishkin
‍ ‍IEEE SaTML, 2025
[Draft: October 2024] [MSR Podcast]

A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods
with Vitalik Buterin and Glen Weyl
‍ ‍Management Science Vol. 65 (11), July 2019
‍ ‍[Paper] [Publisher's Version] [Marginal Revolution] [WIRED] [TED]

The Normative Gap: Mechanism Design and Ideal Theories of Justice
‍ ‍Economics & Philosophy, Vol. 36 (3), November 2020
‍ ‍Best paper award at MD4SG at EC ‘19
[Paper]

Working Papers
How People Use ChatGPT
with Ronnie Chatterji, Tom Cunningham, David Deming,
Christopher Ong, Carl Shan, and Kevin Wadman
‍ ‍[Draft: September 2025] [Washington Post] [The Verge]

Opaque Contracts
with Andreas Haupt
[Draft: January 2023]

Optimal Defaults, Limited Enforcement and the Regulation of Contracts
with Benjamin Niswonger
[Draft: February 2023]

My first book of nonfiction will be published by Crown in the US in late 2027 and Hamish Hamilton in the UK in early 2028. It is a reckoning with how, as we make ourselves more legible to machines, we are eroding the unknowability that is essential to personal growth, love, friendship, and a functioning economy. It will also appear in German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish and Korean.

I am the author of two books of poetry:

• Not Us Now, winner of the Changes Book Prize (judged by Louise Glück), published by Changes in 2024.

• Mezzanine, published by Ecco/Harpercollins in 2020.

I currently serve as poetry editor of The Drift.

Some of my poems are online: Paris Review The New Yorker Poetry Harpers New Statesman London Review of Books New York Review of Books Granta.

Selected features, reviews and interviews are also online: The New Yorker Poetry Podcast Colloquy The White Review Poetry Foundation McSweeney’s Chicago Review of Books Cleveland Review of Books Adroit Antiphony

And here is some other prose:
On why I left my last job
On how we surveil the people we love
On art made by DALL-E
On Rachel Kushner
On Ryan Ruby
On Ben Lerner
On Ocean Vuong

Personhood Credentials: Artificial intelligence and the Value of Privacy-Preserving Tools to Distinguish Who is Real Online
with Steven Adler, Shrey Jain and many others
‍ ‍2025 Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award
‍ ‍from the Future of Privacy Forum
[Draft: August 2024] [Washington Post] [MIT Tech Review] [NBC]

Economic Democracy and Market Power
with Michelle Meagher, André Veiga and Glen Weyl
‍ ‍Competition Policy International Antitrust Chronicle, 2020
[Paper]

The Technological Politics of Mechanism Design
with Lily Hu and Salomé Viljoen
‍ ‍University of Chicago Law Review, 2019
[Paper]

Email
contact@zoehitzig.com

Literary agent
Alice Whitwham at the Cheney Agency
alice@cheneyagency.com

Speaking inquiries
Hannah Scott at Lyceum Agency
hannah@lyceumagency.com