Research

Journal Publications

• *Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-being (with Erik Brynjolfsson and Felix Eggers). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (15) 7250-7255, April 9, 2019. (Download)

• *Rationing Social Contact During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Transmission Risk and Social Benefits of US Locations (with Seth G. Benzell and Christos Nicolaides). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (26) 14642-14644, June 30, 2020. (Download)

• Interdependence and the Cost of Uncoordinated Responses to COVID-19 (with David Holtz, Michael Zhao, Seth G. Benzell, Cathy Cao, M. Amin Rahimian, Jeremy Yang, Jennifer Allen, Alex Moehring, Tara Sowrirajan, Dipayan Ghosh, Yunhao Zhang, Paramveer Dhillon, Christos Nicolaides, Dean Eckles and Sinan Aral). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (33) 19837-19843, August 18, 2020. (Download)

• *How should we measure the digital economy? (with Erik Brynjolfsson). Harvard Business Review (Print), Nov/Dec 2019. (Download)

• *Boosting Business Value by Reducing COVID-19 Transmission Risk (with Seth G. Benzell and Christos Nicolaides). MIT Sloan Management Review, September 2020. (Download)

• *Measuring the Impact of Free Goods on Real Household Consumption (with Erik Brynjolfsson, Erwin Diewert, Felix Eggers and Kevin Fox). American Economic Association - Papers and Proceedings 110: 25-30, May 2020. (Download)

• *Measuring Welfare with Massive Online Choice Experiments: A Brief Introduction (with Erik Brynjolfsson and Felix Eggers). American Economic Association - Papers and Proceedings 108 : 473-76, May 2018. (Download)

• The Impact of Openness on the Market Potential of Multi-sided Platforms: A Case Study of Mobile Payment Platforms (with Jan Ondrus and Kalle Lyytinen), Journal of Information Technology 30 (3) 260–275, September 2015. (Download)

Working Papers

• *GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy (with Erik Brynjolfsson, Erwin Diewert, Felix Eggers and Kevin Fox), 2019. NBER Working Paper No. 25695.

• Surfacing norms to increase vaccine acceptance (with Alex Moehring, Kiran Garimella, M. Amin Rahimian, Dean Eckles and Sinan Aral), 2021.

• *How to Govern Facebook: A Structural Model for Taxing and Regulating Big Tech (with Seth G. Benzell), 2020.

• *The Efficiency of US Public Space Utilization During the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Seth G. Benzell and Christos Nicolaides), 2021.

• *Can Health Information Technology Save Lives During a Pandemic? (with Seth G. Benzell, Christos Nicolaides and Indranil Bardhan), 2020.

• *Effects of restricting social media usage (with Felix Eggers), 2020.

Other Publications

• *Consumer welfare in the digital economy. GAI Report on the Digital Economy, 2020.

• *Global survey on COVID-19 beliefs, behaviors, and norms (with Kiran Garimella, Alex Moehring, M. Amin Rahimian, Stella Babalola, Nina Gobat, Dominick Shattuck, Jeni Stolow, Dean Eckles and Sinan Aral). Technical report on an international survey (N = 2 million, 67 countries) conducted with Facebook, WHO & Johns Hopkins University, 2020. (Project website)

• *GDP and well-being in the digital economy (with Erik Brynjolfsson). OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook, 2018.

• *A Post-Failure Analysis of Mobile Payment Platforms (with Jan Ondrus and Kalle Lyytinen), Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2015. (Download)