Working Papers

As IDE scholars' projects progress, they share early-stage research through working papers that offer insights into their findings and methodology.

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Field Experiments on Social Media

Jun, 2021

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Working Papers How APIs Create Growth by Inverting the Firm

Aug 2021

Marshall Van Alstyne | Visiting Scholar

Seth Benzell | Digital Fellow

Jonathan Hersh

Working Papers Field Experiments on Social Media

Jun 2021

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Mohsen Mosleh

Gordon Pennycook

Working Papers Platform Mergers and Antitrust

Jun 2021

Geoff Parker | Visiting Scholar

Georgios Petropoulos | Post-Doctoral Associate

Marshall Van Alstyne | Visiting Scholar

Working Papers Digital Resilience: How Work-From-Home Feasibility Affects Firm Performance

May 2021

Sebastian Steffen | PhD Candidate

Wang Jin | Research Scientist

John (Jianqiu) Bai

Erik Brynjolfsson

Chi Wan

Working Papers Scaling Up Fact-Checking Using the Wisdom of Crowds

Apr 2021

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Jennifer Allen | MIT Sloan and MIT IDE

Antonio A. Arechar

Gordon Pennycook

Working Papers Cybersecurity Hiring in Response to Data Breaches

Mar 2021

Sebastian Steffen | PhD Candidate

Sarah Bana | Postdoctoral Associate

Wang Jin | Research Scientist

Erik Brynjolfsson

Xiupeng Wang

Working Papers Ethical Machines: The Human-centric Use of Artificial Intelligence

Mar 2021

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Data-Driven Societies Research Group Lead

B.Lepri

N. Oliver

Working Papers Beliefs About COVID-19 in Canada, the U.K., and the U.S.: A novel test of political polarization and motivated reasoning

Feb 2021

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Gordon Pennycook

Jonathon McPhetres

Bence Bago

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