SI 2022 IT and Digitization

Erik Brynjolfsson, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker, Organizers

July 21-22, 2022

Ballroom A

Format: 20 minutes speaker/10 minutes discussant/10 minutes Q & A

Conference Code of Conduct

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

Social Media and Mental Health
Discussant: Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
10:50 am

How Costly are Cultural Biases?
Discussant: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Stanford University
11:30 am

Automation in Small Business Lending Can Reduce Racial Disparities: Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program
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
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.
Discussant: Brett R. Gordon, Northwestern University
2:40 pm

Competition and Defaults in Online Search
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
Discussant: Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER
4:20 pm

Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing
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
Discussant: Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
9:40 am

The Effect of Independent Online Media in an Autocracy
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
Discussant: Julie Holland Mortimer, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
11:20 am

The Welfare Consequences of Regulating Amazon
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
Discussant: Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
2:00 pm

Driving the Gig Economy
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

Impact of Privacy Regulation on Experimentation and Innovation

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Impact of Fake Reviews on Demand and Welfare

Decrypting the Digital Economy: The Digital Alpha and Its Origins

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

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

Designing Quality Certificates: Insights from eBay
4:10 pm
Adjourn and Reception in Ballroom Foyer