Select Publications and Working Papers
"Algorithmic Writing Assistance on Jobseekers’ Resumes Increases Hires."
Wiles, Emma, Zanele Munyikwa, and John J. Horton. Management Science. Forthcoming. NBER Preprint. Supplementary Materials.
"Consumer Demand w/ Social Influences: Evidence from an E-commerce Platform."
Caoui, El Hadi, Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, and Robert Schultz. Management Science. Forthcoming. NBER Preprint.
"Does Privacy Regulation Harm Content Providers? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of the GDPR."
Lefrere, Vincent, Logan Warberg, Cristobal Cheyre, Veronica Marotta, and Alessandro Acquisti. Management Science. Forthcoming.
"Information about vacancy congestion redirects job search."
Fradkin, Andrey, Monica Bhole, and John J. Horton. Management Science. Forthcoming. Postprint.
"Statistical Discrimination in Learning Agents."
Duéñez-Guzmán, Edgar A., Kevin R. McKee, Yiran Mao, Ben Coppin, Silvia Chiappa, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, Michiel A. Bakker, Yoram Bachrach, Suzanne Sadedin, William Isaac, Karl Tuyls, and Joel Z. Leibo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Forthcoming. arXiv Preprint.
Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI?
Pentland, Alex. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2025.
"Evaluating Multiple Models Using Labeled and Unlabeled Data."
Shanmugam, Divya, Shuvom Sadhuka, Manish Raghavan, John Guttag, Bonnie Berger, and Emma Pierson, Working Paper. October 2025.
"Economic Rationales for Regulating Behavioral Ads."
Topic: Economics
Moradi, Pegah, Cristobal Cheyre, and Alessandro Acquisti, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7340-24. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, September 2025.
Keywords: Behavioral Advertising, Data Privacy, Privacy Regulation, Economics
"Synthetic Census Data Generation via Multidimensional Multiset Sum."
Dwork, Cynthia, Kristjan Greenewald, and Manish Raghavan. Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality Vol. 15, No. 2 (2025).
"Measuring Social Media Network Effects."
Aral, Sinan, Seth G. Benzell, Avinash Collis, and Christos Nicolaides, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6975-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, June 2025.
Keywords: Network Effects, Social Media, Consumer Surplus
"Are Crypto Ecosystems (De)centralizing? A Framework for Longitudinal Analysis."
Ju, Harang, Ehsan Valavi, Madhav Kumar, and Sinan Aral, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6972-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, June 2025.
"Explaining Sustained Blockchain Decentralization with Quasi-Experiments: Resource Flexibility of Consensus Mechanisms."
Ju, Harang, Madhav Kumar, Ehsan Valavi, and Sinan Aral, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6971-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, May 2025.
"Complementarity Between Paid and Organic Installs in Mobile App Advertising."
Topic: Marketing
Ju, Harang, Michael Zhao, and Sinan Aral, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7279-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, April 2025.
Keywords: Digital Advertising, Experiment
"Double Machine Learning for Causal Inference under Shared-State Interference."
Hays, Chris and Manish Raghavan, Working Paper. April 2025. ICML 2025.
"Human Trust in AI Search: A Large-Scale Experiment."
Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Li, Haiwen and Sinan K. Aral, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7246-24. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, April 2025. arXiv Preprint.