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When Big Data Enables Behavioral Manipulation
American Economic Review: InsightsWe build a model of online behavioral manipulation driven by AI advances. A platform dynamically offers one of n products to a user who slowly learns product quality.
D. Acemoglu +3 more
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Political Social Learning: Short-Term Memory and Cycles of Polarization
The American Economic ReviewThis paper investigates the effect of voters’ short-term memory on political outcomes by considering politics as a collective learning process. We find that short-term memory may lead to cycles of polarization and consensus across parties’ platforms ...
Gilat Levy, R. Razin
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Consistent Depth of Reasoning in Level-k Models
American Economic Journal: MicroeconomicsLevel-k models often assume that individuals employ a fixed depth of reasoning across different games. We study this assumption by having subjects make choices in five classes of games chosen to identify inconsistent depth of reasoning.
D. Cooper +3 more
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Communicating Program Eligibility: A Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Field Experiment
American Economic Journal: Economic PolicyWe conducted a direct mail field experiment with 4,016,461 individuals to test several key hypotheses about why take-up of Supplemental Security Income among individuals age 65 and above is so low.
Jeffrey Hemmeter +3 more
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Journal of Political Economy
We show how early warning about an impending regime change eliminates panic. Agents anticipate a future shock and decide when to attack. Waiting is costly, especially when others attack and cause a regime change while one waits. This may create panic. We
Deepal Basak, Zhen Zhou
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We show how early warning about an impending regime change eliminates panic. Agents anticipate a future shock and decide when to attack. Waiting is costly, especially when others attack and cause a regime change while one waits. This may create panic. We
Deepal Basak, Zhen Zhou
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Digital Information Provision and Behavior Change: Lessons from Six Experiments in East Africa
Social Science Research NetworkWhile some studies suggest mobile phone–based information programs change behavior; others find no effect. We evaluate six text message agricultural extension programs, collectively covering 128,000 farmers.
Raissa Fabregas +4 more
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Strategic Incentives and the Optimal Sale of Information
American Economic Journal: MicroeconomicsA monopolist data seller offers information to privately informed data buyers. I characterize the seller’s optimal menu, which screens between two types of buyers.
Rosina Rodríguez Olivera
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BRAIN ROT: OVERCONSUMPTION OF ONLINE CONTENT (AN ESSAY ON THE PUBLICNESS SOCIAL MEDIA)
Journal of Business Innovation and GovernanceThe term "brain rot" first appeared in 1854. But it has evolved to define a modern concern about how it will shape our digital lives. Anxiety and despair about the expected negative effects because of overconsumption of online content are of increasing ...
Aylin İdikut Özpençe
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Social Connectedness and Information Markets
American Economic Journal: MicroeconomicsThis paper investigates information quality in a simple model of socially connected information markets. Suppliers’ payoffs derive from the fraction of consumers who see their stories.
R. Kranton, David McAdams
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