🚨New working paper!🚨 We study the "privacy-for-content" tradeoff using the 2019 YouTube COPPA settlement. "COPPAcalypse? The YouTube settlement’s impact on kids content” w/ Tesary Lin, James Cooper, & Liang Zhong ➡️ ssrn.com/abstract=44303… 1/9

Tell your grad students! NBER Digital Economics & AI PhD workshop, Sept 21 in Toronto. Applications due July 24. nber.org/calls-papers-a… NBER

Managers can explain a great deal of productivity within firms, separate from management practices, from Robert Metcalfe Alexandre Sollaci and Chad Syverson nber.org/papers/w31192

Join Questrom School of Business, Boston University and Hariri Institute for Computing, Boston University's digital marketing expert Garrett Johnson for a reddit AMA on Thursday, May 18 from 12 - 2pm ET! In this live Q&A, he will discuss online display advertising, browser cookies, online privacy, Europe's #GDPR, and the post-🍪 future of the web.

Tesary Lin showcased the bias vs volume tradeoff in using frames to encourage consumers to share their data with companies. Key idea: value of privacy is correlated with responsiveness to the frame of the ask, and that has an impact on the composition of data collected.

New PEP research from James Cooper, Garrett Johnson , Tesary Lin, and Liang Zhong uses YouTube’s COPPA settlement with the Federal Trade Commission to examine the relationship between privacy and content generation. Read the full paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf….

How valuable can data sharing by large digital platforms be for smaller players? Xiaoxia Lei (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Yixing Chen (Notre Dame University), and I have a new working paper that delves into this question (1/n). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Not as proud as I am of my amazing student Tesary Lin 🎉🥳🎊

Thank you everyone! I'm honored to receive the John Little Award and above all, very heartened to hear this from my advisor! 😇Very grateful for everything I've learned from Sanjog Misra Brad Shapiro, Pradeep and others at Booth.

Submit your Economics of AI work. Applications due today!

Research update: "The Editor and the Algorithm: Recommendation Technology in Online News" is now published in Management Science. I collaborated with Ananya Sen from Carnegie Mellon University & Jörg Claussen from Universität München . pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.12…

Join us for a talk by Hariri Institute Distinguished Speaker Arvind Narayanan Princeton University on "The Reproducibility Crisis in Machine Learning-based Science" ➡️ FRI, 11/3, 11:00am – 12:00pm ET, ZOOM ➡️ Register: spr.ly/6019ud3k5 Host: Tesary Lin Prof. Questrom School of Business, Boston University #ML #CompSc

🚨Working paper update!🚨 What is the impact of strict #privacy regulation on content supply and demand? In Sept 2019, YouTube paid a record $170M to settle charges it violated children’s privacy law (#COPPA). We use this to study the "privacy-for-content" tradeoff. 1/11

Come see Raviv Murciano-Goroff Joel Waldfogel Farshad Ravasan Sam Goldberg Mert Demirer Guy Aridor Kellogg School Tesary Lin and myself at the #ASSA2024 #EconTwitter "Firms and Data: Privacy, Monitoring, and Cybersecurity" session Saturday, 2:30 pm aeaweb.org/conference/202…

New working paper!!! (joint with Chiara Farronato and Andrey Fradkin) How does the use of dark patterns during data collection affect website competition? Read on:

Marketing job market candidates: BU is hiring! We've got a fantastic team doing cool research. Please apply!

We wrapped up the 11th annual Conference on Digital Experimentation this past Saturday with our second half of plenary speakers and the fireside panel on "The Changing Data Environment." Thank you to everyone for another successful year of Conference on Digital Experimentation - we look forward to having you join us

Newly Accepted Articles 10/24 (1 of 4) "Choice Architecture, Privacy Valuations, and Selection Bias in Consumer Data" by Lin, Tesary and Strulov-Shlain, Avner Tesary Lin

Newly Accepted Articles 05/25 (1 of 5) "The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Privacy Regulation for Consumer Marketing by Dubé, Jean-Pierre; Lynch, Jr., John G.; Bergemann, Dirk; Demirer, Mert; Goldfarb, Avi; Johnson, Garrett A.; Lambrecht, Anja; Lin, Tesary;

In our new working paper, we study how to design consent mechanisms for data collection. TLDR; instead of focusing on the specific consent interface, we should focus on the frequency of consent decisions and default sharing rules.