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Algorithmic Writing Assistance on Jobseekers' Resumes Increases Hires
Emma van Inwegen, Zanele Munyikwa, John J. Horton
There is a strong association between the quality of the writing in a resume for new labor market entrants and whether those entrants are ultimately hired. We show that this relati…
The Ruble Collapse in an Online Marketplace: Some Lessons for Market Designers
John Horton
The sharp devaluation of the ruble in 2014 increased the real returns to Russians from working in a global online labor marketplace, as con- tracts in this market are dollar-denomi…
The Production and Consumption of Social Media
Apostolos Filippas, John Horton
We model social media as collections of users producing and consuming content. Users value consuming content, but doing so uses up their scarce attention, and hence they prefer con…
The Tragedy of Your Upstairs Neighbors: Is the Airbnb Negative Externality Internalized?
John J. Horton
A commonly expressed concern about the rise of the peer-to-peer rental market Airbnb is that hosts---those renting out their properties---impose costs on their unwitting neighbors.…
Employer Expectations, Peer Effects and Productivity: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments
John J. Horton
This paper reports the results of a series of field experiments designed to investigate how peer effects operate in a real work setting. Workers were hired from an online labor mar…
The Online Laboratory: Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market
John J. Horton, David G. Rand, Richard J. Zeckhauser
Online labor markets have great potential as platforms for conducting experiments, as they provide immediate access to a large and diverse subject pool and allow researchers to con…
The Condition of the Turking Class: Are Online Employers Fair and Honest?
John Horton
Online labor markets give people in poor countries direct access to buyers in rich countries. Economic theory and empirical evidence strongly suggest that this kind of access impro…
The Labor Economics of Paid Crowdsourcing
John Horton, Lydia Chilton
Crowdsourcing is a form of "peer production" in which work traditionally performed by an employee is outsourced to an "undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an…