- Social Media and Mental Health (with Luca Braghieri and Ro’ee Levy), American Economic Review, November 2022, 112(11), Pages 3660-3693 [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Journal link] [SSRN link]
- Media coverage: Financial Times, The Guardian, New York Times, NPR (1, 2, 3), Scientific American, Psychology Today, Yahoo Finance, Seeking Alpha, Markets Insider, Benzinga, Morningstar, MIT Sloan Ideas Made to Matter, AP News, BioMedWire, Medical Xpress, Mad in America, N12 News (Israel), The Jerusalem Post, i24NEWS, Yedioth Ahronoth, The Times of Israel, NoCamels, The Jewish Press, Jewish Business News, Hayadan, Tel Aviv University, Cosmos (Australia), Valor Econômico (Brazil), Terra (Brazil), Oi Canadian (Canada), IT World Canada, Weekendavisen (Denmark), Finanzen.net (Germany), piqd (Germany), CNN Indonesia, Il Post (Italy), Metro (Italy), Bocconi Knowledge, Bol News (Pakistan), Times of India, The Economic Times (India), Gazeta.pl (Poland), Viata Medicala (Romania), Lenta.ru (Russia), Expressen (Sweden), Cash (Switzerland), Liberty Times (Taiwan), Şalom (Turkey), Báo Phụ Nữ (Vietnam), Busqueda (Uruguay), WND, Vision Times, La Opinión, Cal Newport’s Blog, Jon Haidt’s Substack, Scott Cunningham’s Substack, Noah Smith’s Substack, Emily Oster’s Substack, Sam Freedman’s Blog, Brookings, Econs.Online, AEA Featured Chart, CEPR Weekly Highlights, SSRC Frontiers, Sparrow, A Dopamine Kick Podcast
- Media appearances and popular writing: Freakonomics MD, NPR, The Sunday Show Podcast by Tech Policy Press, VoxEU, Kan Tarbut (radio, in Hebrew)
- Policy mentions: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Social Media
and Youth Mental Health
- Econometric Society European Meetings (ESEM) Best Paper Award 2022
- Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia (with Ruben Enikolopov and Maria Petrova), Econometrica, July 2020, Vol. 88, No. 4, Pages 1479-1514 [PDF] [Typeset Appendix] [Online Appendix] [Online Corrigendum] [Journal link] [SSRN link]
- Can Online Off-The-Shelf Lessons Improve Student Outcomes? Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Kirabo Jackson), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2018, Vol. 10, No. 3, Pages 226-254 [PDF]
[Journal link]
[Working Paper]
- Media coverage: Education Week, Education Next, ThinkProgress, The74million (1, 2), Teacher Quality Bulletin: The Best Teacher Quality Research of 2016, Flypaper Blog, Achieve.org
- Policy mentions: Rhode Island Department of Education, Tennessee Department of Education, Louisiana Department of Education, Center for American Progress
- Social Image, Networks, and Protest Participation (with Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova, and Leonid Polishchuk) [SSRN link], submitted
- The Impact of Online Dating Apps on Young Adults: Evidence From Tinder (with Berkeren Buyukeren and Heyu Xiong) [SSRN link], working paper
Political and Economic Effects of Wars
- Conflict and Inter-Group Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis (with Vasily Korovkin), American Economic Review, January 2023, 113(1), Pages 34-70 [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Journal link] [SSRN link]
- A Sufficient Statistics Approach for Endogenous Production Networks: Theory and Application to Ukraine’s War (with Vasily Korovkin and Yuhei Miyauchi) [Slides PDF]
- The Political Legacy of Nazi Annexation (with Mario Cannella and Ricardo Pique) [SSRN link], revise and resubmit at the Economic Journal
General Political Economy
- Divided We Stay Home: Social Distancing and Ethnic Diversity (with Georgy Egorov, Ruben Enikolopov, and Maria Petrova), Journal of Public Economics, February 2021, Vol. 194 [PDF] [Journal link] [NBER WP] [CEPR DP] [SSRN link]
- National or Sub-National Parties: Does Party Geographic Scope Matter? (with Ricardo Pique and Fernando Aragon), Journal of Development Economics, September 2020, Vol. 146 [PDF] [Journal link] [SSRN link]
- Reducing Bureaucratic Corruption: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on What Works (with Jordan Gans-Morse, Mariana Borges, Theresa Mannah-Blankson, Andre Nickow, and Dong Zhang), World Development, May 2018, Vol. 105, Pages 171-188 [PDF]
[Journal link]
[SSRN link]
- Affinity, Trust, and Information (with Luigi Guiso) [SSRN link] [video], working paper
- The Political Economic Determinants of Nuclear Power Investment: Evidence from Chernobyl (with Nancy Qian and Shaoda Wang), draft available upon request
