Social media are at the center of countless debates on polarization, misinformation, and even the state of democracy in various parts of the world. An essential feature of social media is their recommendation algorithm that determines the ranking of content presented to the users. This paper...

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methods, particularly TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) and VIKOR (VIsekriterijumska optimizacija i KOmpromisno Resenje) (Multicriteria Optimization and Compromise Solution), are extensively used in logistics for...

We use data from a Norwegian field experiment where young students were taught mathematics in small, homogenous groups to investigate how treatment effects varied across middle-achieving students dependent on their rank order and their tutors’ instructional practices. We find that individuals...

We estimate the long-term consequences of math and reading rank within an elementary school on short and long-term outcomes. We find that higher rank leads to better outcomes. Students ranked at the top in grade 7 perform up to 0.33 standard deviations higher on future school exams, are more...