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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Collaborating with AI Agents: Field Experiments on Teamwork, Productivity, and Performance

Mar, 2025

Harang Ju | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

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

Working Papers Restarting the Economy and Avoiding Big Brother

Apr 2020

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Professor, MIT Media Lab

Working Papers Don’t get it or don’t spread it? Comparing self-interested versus prosocially framed COVID-19 prevention messaging

Apr 2020

David Rand

Professor

Jillian Jordan

Erez Yoeli

Working Papers Effect of Social Distancing Measures in the New York City Metropolitan area

Mar 2020

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Professor, MIT Media Lab

Michiel Bakker

Alex Berke

Matt Groh

Esteban Moro

Working Papers Effectiveness of social distancing strategies for protecting a community from a pandemic

Mar 2020

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Professor, MIT Media Lab

David Martín-Calvo

Alberto Aleta

Yamir Moreno

Esteban Moro

Working Papers Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy Nudge Intervention

Mar 2020

David Rand | Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Gordon Pennycook

Jonathon McPhetres

Yunhao Zhang

Working Papers Scalable Bundling via Dense Product Embeddings

Jan 2020

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

Dean Eckles

Madhav Kumar

Working Papers Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing

Jan 2020

Chiara Farronato

Andrey Fradkin

Bradley Larsen

Working Papers Fake news, Fast and Slow: Deliberation reduces belief in false (but not true) news headlines

Jan 2020

David Rand

Associate Professor

Gordon Pennycook

Bence Bago

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