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 Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor

Mar 2019

Daron Acemoglu | Institute Professor, MIT Economics Department

Pascal Restrepo

Working Papers Social Media Sharing and Online News Consumption

Feb 2019

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

Michael Zhao

Working Papers Validating Gravity-Based Market Share Models Using Large-Scale Transactional Data

Feb 2019

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Professor, MIT Media Lab

Yoshihiko Suhara

MIT Media Lab

Mohsen Bahrami ·

MIT Media Lab

Bur¸cin Bozkaya

Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

Working Papers Digital Abundance and Scarce Genius: Implications for Wages, Interest Rates, and Growth

Jan 2019

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

Working Papers Data Cooperatives: Digital Empowerment of Citizens and Workers

Jan 2019

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Professor, MIT Media Lab

Working Papers Robots, Trade, And Luddism: A Sufficient Statistic Approach to Optimal Technology Regulation

Dec 2018

Working Papers The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology

Nov 2018

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

Working Papers The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies

Oct 2018

Daniel Rock | Assistant Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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