Christian Gunadi

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Christian Gunadi is an economist whose research sits at the intersection of technology, labor markets, and human well-being. His work focuses on understanding how the rapid automation of industrial work — particularly the proliferation of robotic technology — shapes the lives of everyday workers and communities across the United States. In his 2023 study, Gunadi investigates how workers psychologically and behaviorally respond to the looming threat of job displacement by robots, a timely question given that robot adoption in the U.S. economy surged by roughly 70% between 2005 and 2017. Complementing this, his 2021 paper explores a less-examined dimension of automation: its consequences for public health. By leveraging variation in industrial employment distributions across U.S. cities alongside international robot adoption trends, Gunadi offers novel empirical insights into how technological change reverberates beyond the workplace and into people's physical well-being. Though his publication record is still developing — with his most-cited works each garnering 5 citations — Gunadi represents an emerging voice addressing some of the most pressing socioeconomic questions of the automation age. His interdisciplinary approach makes his work particularly valuable for researchers in economics, public health, and labor policy.