The top 10 MIT Sloan news stories of 2022
From “smart skills” to digital marketing trends, here are the stories readers were drawn to this year.
Faculty
Alexey Makarin is the Mitsubishi Career Development Assistant Professor in International Management and an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Alexey is an applied economist with research interests in political economy, development economics, and economics of digitization. In his work, he examined the economic consequences of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine conflict and the impact of social media on political and individual outcomes.
Before joining MIT Sloan, Alexey was an Assistant Professor at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) in Rome, Italy. He is a Research Affiliate at CEPR and has published in Econometrica, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Journal of Development Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics.
He received a PhD in economics from Northwestern University in June 2019 and a BA from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia.
Featured Publication
"Social Media and Mental Health."Braghieri, Luca, Roee Levy, and Alexey Makarin. American Economic Review Vol. 112, No. 11 (2022): 3660-3693. SSRN Preprint.
Featured Publication
"Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia."Enikolopov, Ruben, Alexey Makarin, and Maria Petrova. Econometrica Vol. 88, No. 4 (2020): 1479-1514. Download Paper. Online Appendix. Replication Files.
Buyukeren, Berkeren, Alexey Makarin, and Heyu Xiong, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6833-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, March 2023.
Korovkin, Vasily, and Alexey Makarin. American Economic Review Vol. 113, No. 1 (2023): 34-70. SSRN Preprint.
Korovkin, Vasily, and Alexey Makarin, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6709-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, January 2022.
Makarin, Alexey, Nancy Qian, and Shaoda Wang, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6712-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, January 2022.
From “smart skills” to digital marketing trends, here are the stories readers were drawn to this year.
The findings found a rise in the number of students who had access to Facebook reporting severe depression and anxiety (7% and 20% respectively).
"We are not saying that social media can explain 100 percent of the rise of mental health issues. ... But it could explain a sizable portion."
"Almost immediately after Facebook arrives on campus, we see an uptick in mental health issues that students report."
"After the introduction of Facebook, student mental health at colleges with Facebook worsens relative to students at colleges [without]."
"We find that, after the introduction of Facebook, students were more likely to report experiencing impairments to academic performance."