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rolled out with a long-run experiment, which allows us to measure its short-run and long-run effects. We find that, although …
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Online reviews could, in principle, greatly improve consumers' ability to evaluate products. However, the authenticity of online user reviews remains a concern; firms have an incentive to manufacture positive reviews for their own products and negative reviews for their rivals. In this paper, we...
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field experiment in collaboration with Yelp across 18,294 firms in the restaurant industry to understand which types of … for three months. The scale of the experiment gives us a unique opportunity to assess the heterogeneity in advertising … those with more reviews and higher pre-experiment organic traffic …
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experiment in which a platform marketplace--an online labor market--guaranteed select sellers for treated buyers. The presence of … relative seller quality. Indeed, a follow-up experiment showed that simply recommending the sellers that the platform would …
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consumer choice sets can be pro-competitive. Finally, we examine a subsequent A/B experiment run by eBay that illustrates the …
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Regulators around the world are discussing, or taking action to limit, self-preferencing by large platforms. This paper explores Amazon's search rankings of its own products as the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) was coming into effect. Using data on over 8 million Amazon search...
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We report the results of a field experiment in which treated employers could not observe the compensation history of …
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We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the …
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borrowers with a personalized measure of their creditworthiness. In a field experiment with over 400,000 student loan borrowers …
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experiment in peri-urban Uganda, and compare output levels across 1000 workers over isomorphic tasks and incentives, framed as …
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