Research Briefs

Our research briefs provide highlights of recently published research papers by IDE scholars.

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Misinformation and Fake News From Elites on Twitter

Mar, 2023

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Research Papers The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology

Mar 2021

Neil Thompson | Technologies that Create Prosperity Research Group Lead

Research Briefs Reliance on Emotion Promotes Belief in Fake News

Mar 2021

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Cameron Martel

Gordon Pennycook

Research Briefs The Computational Limits of Deep Learning

Sep 2020

Neil Thompson | Technologies that Create Prosperity Research Group Lead

Kristjan Greenewald

Keeheon Lee

Gabriel F. Manso

Research Briefs Interdependence and the Cost of Uncoordinated Responses to COVID-19

May 2020

David Holtz, Michael Zhao, Seth G. Benzell, Cathy Y. Cao, M. Amin Rahimian, Jeremy Yang, Jennifer Allen, Avinash Collis, Alex Moehring, Tara Sowrirajan, Dipayan Ghosh, Yunhao Zhang, Paramveer S. Dhillon, Christos Nicolaides, Dean Eckles, Sinan Aral

Research Briefs Consumer Protection in an Online World: An analysis of occupational licensing

Jan 2020

Chiara Farronato

Andrey Fradkin

Bradley Larsen

Research Briefs Digital Health Support in Treatment for Tuberculosis

Oct 2019

David Rand

Associate Professor

Erez Yoeli

Research Scientist

Jon Rathauser

Syon P. Bhanot

Maureen K. Kimenye

Eunice Mailu

Enos Masini

Philip Owiti

Research Briefs Building a Productive Workforce: The Role of Structured Management

May 2019

Research Briefs The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement GPTs

Apr 2019

Daniel Rock | Recent Post-Doctoral Associate

Chad Syverson

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