SI 2022 IT and Digitization
Organized by Erik Brynjolfsson, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Tides Foundation
July 21-22, 2022
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us
Format: 20 minutes speaker/10 minutes discussant/10 minutes Q & A
Thursday, July 21
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Introductions
9:10 am

Drivers of Digital Attention: Evidence from a Social Media Experiment

Guy Aridor, Northwestern University

Discussant:
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
9:50 am

Social Media and Mental Health

Luca Braghieri, Bocconi University
Roee Levy, Tel Aviv University
Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
10:50 am

How Costly are Cultural Biases?

Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University
Alberto G. Rossi, Georgetown University
Pulak Ghosh, India Institute of Management Bangalore

Discussant:
Himabindu Lakkaraju, Stanford University
11:30 am

Automation in Small Business Lending Can Reduce Racial Disparities: Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program

Sabrina T. Howell, Harvard University and NBER
Theresa Kuchler, New York University and NBER
David Snitkof, Ocrolus
Johannes Stroebel, New York University and NBER
Jun Wong, University of Chicago

Discussant:
Kalinda Ukanwa, University of Southern California
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

The First Sale Doctrine and the Digital Challenge to Public Libraries

Imke C. Reimers, Cornell University
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

Discussant:
Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
1:40 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Counter-stereotypical Messaging and Partisan Cues: Moving the Needle on Vaccines in a Polarized U.S.

Bradley Larsen, Washington University in St Louis and NBER
Timothy J. Ryan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steven H. Greene, North Carolina State University
Marc J. Hetherington, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rahsaan D. Maxwell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Discussant:
Brett R. Gordon, Northwestern University
2:40 pm

Competition and Defaults in Online Search

Francesco Decarolis, Bocconi University
Muxin Li, University of Pennsylvania
Filippo Alber. Paternollo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
3:20 pm
Break
3:40 pm

New Evidence on the Effect of Technology on Employment and Skill Demand

Joonas V. Tuhkuri, Stockholm University
Aapo Stenhammar, University of Bonn
Johannes Hirvonen, Northwestern University

Discussant:
Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER
4:20 pm

Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing

Petri Böckerman, Labour Institute for Economic Research
Liisa T. Laine, University of Missouri
Mikko Nurminen, The Social Insurance Institution of Finland
Tanja Saxell, VATT Institute for Economic Research

Discussant:
Leila Agha, Harvard University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Reception and Group Dinner in Longfellow Room
Friday, July 22
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

The Economics of Content Moderation: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Hate Speech on Twitter

Rafael Jimenez, Bocconi University

Discussant:
Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
9:40 am

The Effect of Independent Online Media in an Autocracy

Ruben Enikolopov, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Michael Rochlitz, University of Bremen
Koen Schoors, Gent University
Nikita Zakharov, University of Freiburg

Discussant:
Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics
10:20 am
Break
Two Joint Papers with the IO Group
10:40 am

Choice Frictions in Large Assortments

Olivia R. Natan, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant:
Julie Holland Mortimer, Washington University in St Louis and NBER
11:20 am

The Welfare Consequences of Regulating Amazon

Germán Gutiérrez, University of Washington

Discussant:
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:20 pm

Is Hybrid Work the Best of Both Worlds? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Prithwiraj Choudhury, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Tarun Khanna, Harvard University
Christos Makridis, Arizona State University
Kyle L. Schirmann, Harvard University

Discussant:
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
2:00 pm

Driving the Gig Economy

Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Claire Y. Hou, Congressional Budget Office
Kristin Sandusky, U.S. Census Bureau
James Spletzer, U.S. Census Bureau, retired

Discussant:
Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
2:40 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Lightning Round Papers (5 minutes per paper)

A Portrait of AI Adopters: Evidence from France

Flavio Calvino, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Luca Fontanelli, University of Brescia

Impact of Privacy Regulation on Experimentation and Innovation

Michail Batikas, Nova School of Business and Economics
Yi Liu, Rennes School of Business
Milan Miric, University of Southern California
Hakan Ozalp, University of Amsterdam

Do Incentives to Review Help the Market? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Airbnb

Andrey Fradkin, Boston University
David Holtz, Columbia University

Internet Search Activity and Firms' Intangible Capital Acquisition (slides)

Gaurav Kankanhalli, University of Pittsburgh
Preetesh Kantak, Indiana University
Alan Kwan, Hong Kong University

Platform Design and Innovation Incentives: Evidence from the Product Ratings System on Apple's App Store

Benjamin T. Leyden, Cornell University

Capping Mobile Data Access Creates Value for Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Consumers – Experimental Evidence from a Mumbai Settlement

Alp Sungu, University of Pennsylvania
Kamalini Ramdas, London Business School

Healthcare across Boundaries: Urban-Rural Differences in the Financial and Healthcare Consequences of Telehealth Adoption (slides)

Meizi Zhou, Boston University
Xuelin Li, Columbia University
Gordon Burtch, Boston University

Impact of free legal search on rule of law: Evidence from Indian Kanoon

Sandeep Bhupatiraju, The World Bank
Daniel Chen, Toulouse School of Economics
Ritesh Das, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shareen Joshi, Georgetown University
Peter Neis, CERDI

The Impact of Fake Reviews on Demand and Welfare

Jesper Akesson, The Behavioralist
Robert W. Hahn, University of Oxford
Robert D. Metcalfe, Columbia University and NBER
Manuel Monti-Nussbaum, The Behavioralist

Decrypting the Digital Economy: The Digital Alpha and Its Origins

Mingyi Hua, Ivey Business School, Western University

Browsing the Aisles or Browsing the App? How Online Grocery Shopping is Changing What We Buy

Sai Chand Chintala, Cornell University
Jura Liaukonyte, Cornell University
Nathan Yang, Cornell University

Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Wage-Setting in Ride-Hailing

Yanyou Chen, University of Toronto
Yao Luo, University of Toronto
Zhe Yuan, Zhejiang University

Designing Quality Certificates: Insights from eBay

Xiang Hui, Washington University in St Louis
Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Meng Liu, Washington University in St Louis
4:10 pm
Adjourn and Reception in Ballroom Foyer