working papers

Friends, Key Players and the Adoption and Use of Experience Goods
(with Murrian, R. and Ackermann, K.)
[NotebookLM Podcast style audio summary]

The Heterogeneous Productivity Effects of Generative AI
(with Kreitmeier, D.)
(reject & resubmit in Management Science/i>)

Competing for Attention - The Effect of Talk Radio on Elections and Political Polarization in the US
(with Amarasinghe, A.)

Predicting Political Ideology Using Digital Footprints
(with Kitchener, M., Anantharama, N., and Angus, S.)

Estimating Sleep and Work Hours from Alternative Data by Segmented Functional Classification Analysis (SFCA)
(with Ackermann, K. and Angus, S.)

Object Recognition for Economic Development from Daytime Satellite Imagery
(with Ackermann, K., Chernikov, A., Anantharama, N., and Zaman, M.)

Conflicts in Spatial Networks
(with Amarasinghe, A., Zenou, Y., and Zhou, J.)
(revise & resubmit in European Economic Review)

The Internet as Quantitative Social Science Platform: Insights from a Trillion Observations
(with Ackermann, K. and Angus, S.)
Media: MIT Technology Review, Wired (in German), Daily Mail

work in progress

Geography, History and the Persistence of Political Attitudes (with Amarasinghe, A. and Zaman, M.)

Internet and Protests
(with Ackermann, K., Angus, S., and Hodler R.)

The Role of Media in Asymmetric Warfare