How platform entry affects industry structure and competition

Goodreads’ introduction of paid giveaways reveals how charging for discovery affects ecosystem diversity and match quality.

Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differences in the workforce.

High quality independent research into competition policy and regulation

Most of the internet is out of your reach, but the barrier isn't just algorithms. In another language, the same platforms turn into whole other worlds.

Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

As public archival institutions fade and the state rewrites curricula, the next generation of cultural workers is stepping up

How has Wikipedia activity changed for articles with content similar to ChatGPT following its introduction? We estimate the impact using differences-in-differences models, with dissimilar Wikipedia ar...

Our new paper finds that swapping out one climate term for another does not meaningfully change people’s stated commitment to fight climate change

The real threat isn't AI using open knowledge — it's AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free

Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Aggregate Growth Prospects by Tim Bresnahan

Learning from the EPA about trustworthy tech governance

The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.

Without insurance, it’s impossible to get a mortgage; without a mortgage, most Americans can’t buy a home.

(Forthcoming Article) - We explore the implications of ownership concentration for the recently concluded incentive auction that re-purposed spectrum from broadcast TV to mobile broadband usage in the...

There is a 2019 paper, in the journal Political Analysis (htm), with over 1000 Google cites, titled "How Much Should We Trust Estimates from Multiplicative Interaction Models? Simple Tools to Improve ...

When the witty and wry English fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett interviewed Bill Gates for GQ in 1995, only 39% of Americans had access to a home computer. According to the Pew Research Center, the…