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IDE researchers publish their findings and work in highly respected academic journals.

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Science is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial

Sep, 2017

Neil Thompson | Research Scientist

Research Papers How Users Drive Value: Platform Investments that Matter

Jul 2020

Marshall Van Alstyne | Visiting Scholar

Zhou Zhou

Lingling Zhang

Research Papers Proposal: A Market for Truth to Address False Ads on Social Media

Jul 2020

Marshall Van Alstyne

Visiting Scholar

Research Papers The Computational Limits of Deep Learning

Jul 2020

Neil Thompson | Research Scientist

Kristjan Greenewald

Keeheon Lee

Gabriel F. Manso

Research Papers Interdependence and the Cost of Uncoordinated Responses to COVID-19

Jul 2020

Michael Zhao, Seth G. Benzell, Cathy Y. Cao, M. Amin Rahimian, Jeremy Yang, Jennifer Allen, Avinash Collis, Alex Moehring, Tara Sowrirajan, Dipayan Ghosh, Yunhao Zhang, Paramveer S. Dhillon, Christos Nicolaides, Dean Eckles, Sinan Aral

Research Papers Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention

Jun 2020

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Gordon Pennycook

Jonathon McPhetres

Yunhao Zhang

Jackson G. Lu

Research Papers Understanding the impact of government aid to firms in the COVID-19 pandemic

Jun 2020

Morten Bennedsen, Birthe Larsen, Ian Schmutte

Research Papers Globalization and the Rise and Fall of Cognitive Control

Jun 2020

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Mohsen Mosleh

Katelynn Kyker

Jonathan D. Cohen

Research Papers Rationing Social Contact During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Transmission risk and social benefits of US locations

Jun 2020

Avinash Collis

Christos Nicolaides

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