Research

(1300+ citations, h-index = 11)

Refereed Journal Publications

(* denotes first author or joint first author 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 Benzell and Christos Nicolaides). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (26) 14642-14644, June 30, 2020. (Download)

*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), Nature Human Behavior 6: 1310–1317, 2022. (Download)

Providing normative information increases intentions to accept a COVID-19 vaccine (with Alex Moehring, Kiran Garimella, M. Amin Rahimian, Sinan Aral, and Dean Eckles), Nature Communications 14, Article number: 126, 2023.
Interdependence and the Cost of Uncoordinated Responses to COVID-19 (with David Holtz, Michael Zhao, Seth 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)

*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)
*Boosting Business Value by Reducing COVID-19 Transmission Risk (with Seth Benzell and Christos Nicolaides). MIT Sloan Management Review, September 2020. (Download)
*Consumer welfare in the digital economy. GAI Report on the Digital Economy, 2020.
*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)

*The Digital Welfare of Nations: New Measures of Welfare Gains and Inequality (with Erik Brynjolfsson, Asad Liaqat, Daley Kutzman, Haritz Garro, Daniel Deisenroth, Nils Wernerfelt, and JJ Lee), 2023.
*GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods (with Erik Brynjolfsson, Erwin Diewert, Felix Eggers, and Kevin Fox), 2023. NBER Working Paper No. 25695. (revised and resubmitted to American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics)
*Information Frictions and Heterogeneity in Valuations of Personal Data (with Alex Moehring, Ananya Sen, and Alessandro Acquisti), 2023. (invited resubmission at Management Science)
Countering state-controlled media propaganda through labeling: Evidence from Facebook (with Tricia Moravec and Nicholas Wolczynski), 2023. (revised and resubmitted to Information Systems Research)
*Regulating Digital Platform Monopolies: The Case of Facebook (with Seth Benzell), 2022.
*Measuring the Value of Connections Across Platforms (with Sinan Aral, Seth Benzell, and Christos Nicolaides), 2023.