What motivates people to create (fraudolent) online reviews? What behavioral biases exist in the online review process? This and SO MUCH MORE in our new paper discussing the state of the lit on online reviews over the past 20 years: ssrn.com/abstract=45655… Davide Proserpio yanivdover

A few tips on what makes a good discussion of an (econ) paper at a conference. #EconTwitter #AcademicTwitter #PhDchat #PhDLife A short 🧵

Ph.D. students in economics: How to organize your projects and not make the replication files a huge pain - a thread with a minimal working example with some potential extensions.

FINDING ECONOMIC ARTICLES WITH PRE-REGISTRATION AND REPRODUCTION PACKAGES My web app ejd.econ.mathematik.uni-ulm.de now has a new feature: you can search for articles that are pre-registered in the AEA RCT Registry. Also, links to the pre-registration are shown. 1/3

Are you considering a transition to marketing academia (or trying the mkt job market)? We will host a Zoom event on Mar 25 2pm with a speaker panel who can answer questions and discuss their transitions. Register here: transitionstomktg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bs… Panel includes Eric J. Johnson...

We will host the 6th edition of the Digital Economics Workshop in Rotterdam next week and we are fortunate to have these two stellar keynotes (by Jui Ramaprasad & Anindya Ghose ) in our program. Join if you are around (no streaming offered)! digitalecon.org/workshop/rotte…

64% of TikTok users would be better off if the app didn't exist. TikTok users would pay $28 to have others, including themselves, delete their accounts . UChicago Economics' Leonardo Bursztyn, Benjamin Handel, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, & Christopher Roth ow.ly/3iYJ50QUjyu

Very happy to announce that we will host the Conference on "Research with and within Organisations" ZEW September 9-11. Exciting keynotes: Raffaella Sadun Steve Tadelis Canice Prendergast + practitioner keynote. Submit your paper until April 30. CfP & info: zew.de/VA4370-1

I was visiting another school and a faculty member mentioned spending $100/month on Github Copilot. PSA: you can access Copilot for free if registered with education.github.com. Copilot integrates with RStudio, VSCode, and in-context code completion is a game-changer...

Really interesting thread if you care about reproducibility and are interested in how the process at Management Science works. Thanks Ben & colleagues!

Here is my tool to automatically translate oTree and uproot experiments. Works like a flippin' charm. gitlab.com/gr0ssmann/tran…

🚀 Just published! Our (w/ yanivdover Davide Proserpio) comprehensive review on online reviews is now online at International Journal of Research in Marketing. A short 🧵: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The Behavioral IO and Marketing Symposium will be held on May 15-16, 2025 at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. This conference provides opportunities for IO and Quantitative Marketing researchers working on behavioral economics topics to interact.

Job market candidates: a quick thread on how the econ market works, incl. at business schools. 1) It is not unusual to get many 100s of applications. Nobody reads them all first-pass. Most places take a quick glance at letter/cv/intro, and keep the top x%.