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At the IDE, research and data-based evidence underlie all that we do. Explore the IDE’s publications archives, including cutting-edge academic papers, featured in leading publications around the globe.

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Working Papers The Fiscal Frontier: Projecting AI’s long-term impact on the US fiscal outlook

Sep 2025

Eric So | Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Benjamin H. Harris

Neil Mehrotra

IDE Special Reports 2025 Platform Strategy Summit Event Report

Sep 2025

Research Papers The Hidden Costs of Coding With Generative AI

Aug 2025

Geoffrey Parker | Professor, Dartmouth College

Edward Anderson

Burcu Tan

Generative AI can boost coding productivity, but careless deployment creates technical debt that cripples scalability and destabilizes systems.

Research Briefs Generative AI and the Nature of Work

Aug 2025

Frank Nagle | Research Scientist

Manuel Hoffman

Sam Boysel

Sida Peng

Kevin Xu

Research Briefs Can Generative AI Create Low-Cost Personalized Video Ads That Engage Consumers?

Jul 2025

Madhav Kumar | Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School

Anuj Kapoor

Research Papers Does Privacy Regulation Harm Content Providers? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of the GDPR

Jul 2025

Alessandro Acquisti | T. Wilson (1953) Professor in Management and Professor of Information Technology, MIT Sloan

Vincent Lefrere
Logan Warberg
Cristobal Cheyre
Veronica Marotta

Research Papers Expertise

Jun 2025

Neil Thompson | Research Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management and CSAIL

David Autor

When job tasks are automated, does this augment or diminish the value of labor in the tasks that remain? This paper’s authors argue the answer depends on whether removing tasks raises or reduces the expertise required for remaining non-automated tasks.

Working Papers Measuring Social Media Network Effects

Jun 2025

Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Seth Benzell | Assistant Professor, Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University

Avinash Collis | Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

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