Select Publications and Working Papers
"Competition Avoidance vs. Herding in Job Search: Evidence from Large-Scale Field Experiments on an Online Job Board."
Fradkin, Andrey, Monica Bhole, and John J. Horton. Management Science. Forthcoming. Postprint.
"Consumer Demand with 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.
"Economic Rationales for Regulating Behavioral Ads."
Moradi, Pegah, Cristobal Cheyre, and Alessandro Acquisti. Yale Journal of Law & Technology. Forthcoming.
"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.
"The Production and Consumption of Social Media."
Filippas, Apostolos, John J. Horton, Elliot Lipnowski, and Prasanna Parasurama. Management Science. Forthcoming.
"Reproducibility of Social Science Research Under Privacy Noise."
Topic: Data Privacy
Steed, Ryan, Eduardo Schnadower Mustri, and Alessandro Acquisti, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7355-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2025.
Keyword: Digital Economic
"Algorithmic Writing Assistance on Jobseekers’ Resumes Increases Hires."
Wiles, Emma, Zanele Munyikwa, and John J. Horton. Management Science Vol. 71, No. 12 (2025): 144-164. NBER Preprint. Supplementary Materials.
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.
"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).
"Did Apple's App Tracking Transparency Framework Harm the App Ecosystem?"
Topic: Data Privacy
Cheyre, Cristobal, Benjamin T. Leyden, Sagar Baviskar, and Alessandro Acquisti, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7352-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, August 2025.
Keyword: Digital Economic
"Information Frictions and Heterogeneity in Valuations of Personal Data."
Topic: Data Privacy
Collis, Avinash, Alex Moehring, Ananya Sen, and Alessandro Acquisti, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7353-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, August 2025.
Keywords: Digital Economic, Value of Data, Data Dividends, Privacy, Experiment, Information Treatments
"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.