NBER Digital Economics and AI Meeting
Avi Goldfarb, John J. Horton, Abhishek Nagaraj, and Catherine Tucker, Organizers
February 29 - March 1, 2024
Supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and GitHub
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 |
Berkeren Buyukeren, RED, EIEF, and LUISS Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Heyu Xiong, Case Western Reserve University The Causal Effects of Online Dating Apps: Evidence From U.S. Colleges
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| 1:32 pm |
Nicholas Otis, University of California, Berkeley Rowan P. Clarke, Harvard University Solène Delecourt, University of California, Berkeley David Holtz, University of California, Berkeley Rembrand M. Koning, Harvard University The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance
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| Session 2 | ||||
| 3:11 pm |
Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER Benjamin Klopack, Texas A&M University Neale Mahoney, Stanford University and NBER Selling Subscriptions
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| 3:30 pm |
Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER The Effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 Election: A Deactivation Experiment
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| 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 |
Amanda Dahlstrand, University of Zurich Guy Michaels, London School of Economics Nestor Le Nestour, Stockholm University Online versus In-Person Services: Effects on Patients and Providers
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| 9:03 am |
Ying Bao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Limin Fang, University of British Columbia Matthew J. Osborne, University of Toronto The Effect of Quality Disclosure on Firm Entry and Exit Dynamics: Evidence from Online Review Platforms
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| Session 4 | ||||
| 10:43 am |
Leland Bybee, Yale University The Ghost in the Machine: Generating Beliefs with Large Language Models
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| 10:45 am |
Justin Katz, Harvard University Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER Digital Media Mergers: Theory and Application to Facebook-Instagram
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| Adjourn | ||||