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Faculty
John Horton is the Richard S. Leghorn (1939) Career Development Professor and an Associate Professor of Information Technologies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Horton's research focuses on the intersection of labor economics, market design, and information systems. He is particularly interested in improving the efficiency and equity of matching markets.
After completing his PhD and prior to joining NYU Stern School of Business in 2013, he served for two years as the staff economist for oDesk, an online labor market.
Horton received a BS in mathematics from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a PhD in public policy from Harvard University.
Filippas, Apostolos, John J. Horton, and Joseph Golden. Market Science. Forthcoming. SSRN Preprint.
Filippas, Apostolos, John J. Horton, and Richard Zeckhauser. Management Science Vol. 66, No. 9 (2020): 4152-4172. Replication. Download Paper.
Barach, Moshe, Joseph Golden, and John Joseph Horton. Management Science Vol. 66, No. 9 (2020): 4047-4070. Download Paper.
Brynjolfsson, Erik, John Horton, Adam Ozimek, Daniel Rock, Garima Sharma, and Hong Yi Tu Ye, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6088-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, April 2020.
Horton, John J. Management Science Vol. 65, No. 8 (2019): 3518-3540. SSRN Paper.
John J. Horton and Richard Zeckhauser. Replication.
They also received more offers and higher wages, an experiment finds.
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