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Nathan Goldschlag is an economist whose research sits at the intersection of technology adoption, automation, and firm dynamics, with a particular focus on how advanced technologies reshape the American workforce and economy. Working closely with U.S. Census Bureau data infrastructure, Goldschlag has made foundational contributions by helping design and analyze the Annual Business Survey (ABS), a landmark instrument that opened new empirical windows into how firms adopt artificial intelligence, robotics, and other advanced technologies across all economic sectors. His most influential work, "Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms" (2020, 169 citations), established a comprehensive empirical baseline for understanding technology diffusion across U.S. businesses. Subsequent research on automation and the workforce (2022, 85 citations) deepened this picture at the firm level, while his causal analysis of technology adoption (2023, 48 citations) revealed that adopting firms were already larger and faster-growing before adoption — challenging simple narratives about technology's transformative effects. More recently, Goldschlag has pioneered the concept of "robot hubs," demonstrating that robotics investment is strikingly concentrated geographically and among larger establishments in U.S. manufacturing. Together, his body of work — accumulating nearly 400 citations — provides indispensable empirical grounding for policy debates surrounding technological change and labor markets.