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IDE researchers publish their findings and work in highly respected academic journals.

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A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties

Sep, 2022

Sinan Aral | Director

Research Papers The Impact of New Technology on the Healthcare Workforce

Oct 2020

John Van Reenen | Professor

Ari Bronsoler

Joseph Doyle

Research Papers Tit for Tat? The Difficulty of Designing Two-Sided Reputation Systems

Oct 2020

David Holtz | Research Affiliate

Andrey Fradkin | Digital Fellow

Research Papers Reliance on Emotion Promotes Belief in Fake News

Oct 2020

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Cameron Martel

Gordon Pennycook

Research Papers Social Advertising Effectiveness Across Products: A Large- Scale Field Experiment

Oct 2020

Sinan Aral | Director

Shan Huang

Research Affiliate

Yu Jeffrey Hu

Visiting Scholar

Erik Brynjolfsson

Former Director, IDE

Research Papers Boosting Business Value by Reducing COVID-19 Transmission Risk

Sep 2020

Avinash Collis | Digital Fellow

Seth Benzell | Digital Fellow

Christos Nicolaides | Research Affiliate

Research Papers Who Gets Credit for AI-Generated Art?

Sep 2020

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Ziv Epstein

Sydney Levine

Iyad Rahwan

Research Papers How Users Drive Value: Platform Investments that Matter

Jul 2020

Marshall Van Alstyne | Visiting Scholar

Zhou Zhou

Lingling Zhang

Research Papers Proposal: A Market for Truth to Address False Ads on Social Media

Jul 2020

Marshall Van Alstyne

Visiting Scholar

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