NBER Digital Economics and AI Meeting
Organized by Avi Goldfarb, John J. Horton, Abhishek Nagaraj, and Catherine Tucker
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Microsoft Github
February 29 - March 1, 2024
Vidalakis Room, Schwab Residential Center, 680 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Format: 20 minutes for the authors, 10 minutes for the discussants, 10 minutes for general Q&A
Thursday, February 29
Session 1
1:31 pm

The Causal Effects of Online Dating Apps: Evidence From U.S. Colleges

Berkeren Buyukeren, RED, EIEF, and LUISS
Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Heyu Xiong, Case Western Reserve University

Discussant:
Andrey Simonov, Columbia University
1:32 pm

The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance

Nicholas Otis, University of California, Berkeley
Rowan P. Clarke, Harvard University
Solène Delecourt, University of California, Berkeley
David Holtz, Columbia University
Rembrand M. Koning, Harvard University

Discussant:
Chuck Eesley, Stanford University
Break
Session 2
3:11 pm

Selling Subscriptions

Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
Benjamin Klopack, Texas A&M University
Neale Mahoney, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
3:30 pm

The Effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 Election: A Deactivation Experiment

Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Sarah Moshary, University of California, Berkeley
3:31 pm
draft of this paper is available from authors by request. presentation will not be available on YouTube
Adjourn
Dinner - Il Fornaio Restaurant, 520 Cowper Street (at the Garden Court Hotel) Palo Alto
Friday, March 1
Continental Breakfast
Session 3
9:01 am

Online versus In-Person Services: Effects on Patients and Providers

Amanda Dahlstrand, University of Zurich
Guy Michaels, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Nestor Le Nestour, Stockholm University

Discussant:
Dan Zeltzer, University of California, Berkeley
9:03 am

The Effect of Quality Disclosure on Firm Entry and Exit Dynamics: Evidence from Online Review Platforms

Ying Bao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Limin Fang, University of British Columbia
Matthew J. Osborne, University of Toronto

Discussant:
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Break
Session 4
10:43 am

The Ghost in the Machine: Generating Beliefs with Large Language Models

Leland Bybee, University of Chicago

Discussant:
Sophia Kazinnik, Stanford University
10:45 am

Digital Media Mergers: Theory and Application to Facebook-Instagram

Justin Katz, Harvard University
Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Guy Aridor, Northwestern University
Adjourn