John J. Horton

New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences

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1.

The Future of Crowd Work

16th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Coooperative Work (CSCW 2013), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Dec 2012
Aniket Kittur, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Michael Bernstein, Elizabeth M. Gerber, Aaron Shaw, John Zimmerman, Matthew Lease and John J. Horton
Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business, Stanford University, Northwestern University, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Texas at Austin and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Crowdsourcing, crowd work, organization design, research vision

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The Online Laboratory: Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market

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The Online Laboratory: Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market

Experimental Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2015
John J. Horton, David G. Rand and Richard J. Zeckhauser
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Experimentation, Online Labor Markets, Internet

The Online Laboratory: Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market

NBER Working Paper No. w15961
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 10 May 2010 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2022
John J. Horton, David G. Rand and Richard J. Zeckhauser
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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The Tragedy of Your Upstairs Neighbors: When Is the Home-Sharing Externality Internalized?

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 31 May 2014 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2017
Apostolos Filippas and John J. Horton
Fordham University - Gabelli School of Business and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Reputation Inflation

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Reputation Inflation

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 08 Mar 2018
Apostolos Filippas, John J. Horton and Joseph Golden
Fordham University - Gabelli School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Collage.com
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online platforms, reputation systems, inflation, computational social science

Reputation in the Long-Run

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6750
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 18 Jan 2018
Apostolos Filippas, John J. Horton and Joseph Golden
Fordham University - Gabelli School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Collage.com
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Reputation Inflation

NBER Working Paper No. w25857
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 22 May 2019 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2022
Apostolos Filippas, John J. Horton and Joseph Golden
Fordham University - Gabelli School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Collage.com
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Owning, Using and Renting: Some Simple Economics of the Sharing Economy

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Feb 2016
John J. Horton and Richard J. Zeckhauser
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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sharing economy, peer-to-peer markets, rentals, Airbnb, Uber, transaction costs

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The Labor Economics of Paid Crowdsourcing

Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2010
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 27 Apr 2010
John J. Horton and Lydia B. Chilton
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and University of Washington
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Labor Supply, Crowdsourcing, Experimentation, Amazon Mechanical Turk

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Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment

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Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 16 Jan 2017
John J. Horton
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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minimum wages, labor demand, labor supply, experiments

Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6548
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 24 Jul 2017
John J. Horton
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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minimum wages, field experiments, hiring

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Online Labor Markets

The 6th Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), 2010
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 10 Oct 2010
John J. Horton
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Online Labor Markets, Electronic Commerce

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The Causes of Peer Effects in Production: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments

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The Causes of Peer Effects in Production: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2016
John J. Horton and Richard J. Zeckhauser
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Mechanical Turk, Field Experiments, Peer Effects, Productivity

The Causes of Peer Effects in Production: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments

HKS Working Paper No. 16-027
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2016
John J. Horton and Richard J. Zeckhauser
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Peer Effects, Productivity, Effort, Field Experiments

The Causes of Peer Effects in Production: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments

NBER Working Paper No. w22386
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2022
John J. Horton and Richard J. Zeckhauser
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Procurement, Incentives and Bargaining Friction: Evidence from Government Contracts

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 04 May 2010
John J. Horton
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Procurement, Transaction Costs, Bargaining Friction, Instrumental Variables

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The Dot-Guessing Game: A ‘Fruit Fly’ for Human Computation Research

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 08 May 2010
John J. Horton
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Crowdsourcing, Human Computation, Mechanical Turk, Experimentation

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The Social Value of the Marginal Startup

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 28 May 2014 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2016
John J. Horton
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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venture capital, software engineers, Silicon Valley, labor markets, entrepreneurship

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Owning, Using and Renting: Some Simple Economics of the 'Sharing Economy'

HKS Working Paper No. RWP16-007
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 14 Mar 2016
John J. Horton and Richard J. Zeckhauser
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Sharing economy, peer-to-peer markets, rentals, Airbnb, Uber, bringing-to-market costs, transaction costs

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How Do Employers Use Compensation History?: Evidence from a Field Experiment

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How Do Employers Use Compensation History?: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 01 Apr 2017
Moshe Barach and John J. Horton
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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How Do Employers Use Compensation History?: Evidence from a Field Experiment

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6559
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 08 Aug 2017
Moshe Barach and John J. Horton
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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field experiments, compensation, search and screening

How Do Employers Use Compensation History?: Evidence from a Field Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w26627
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 13 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Moshe Barach and John J. Horton
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Covid-19 and Remote Work: An Early Look at Us Data

NBER Working Paper No. w27344
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 15 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2022
Erik Brynjolfsson, John J. Horton, Adam Ozimek, Daniel Rock, Garima Sharma and Hong Yi Tu Ye
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, Upwork, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and MIT Sloan
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The Effects of Algorithmic Labor Market Recommendations: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 29 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2015
John J. Horton
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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employer search, labor market intermediation, field experiments

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Buyer Signaling Improves Matching: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 24 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2019
John J. Horton and Ramesh Johari
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Stanford University
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signaling, matching, market design, experimentation

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Owning, Using and Renting: Some Simple Economics of the "Sharing Economy"

NBER Working Paper No. w22029
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 01 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2022
John J. Horton and Richard J. Zeckhauser
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Buyer Uncertainty About Seller Capacity: Causes, Consequences, and a Partial Solution

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Buyer Uncertainty About Seller Capacity: Causes, Consequences, and a Partial Solution

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 23 Apr 2018
John J. Horton
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Buyer Uncertainty About Seller Capacity: Causes, Consequences, and a Partial Solution

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6985
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Jun 2018
John J. Horton
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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labor economics, market design, digitization

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Designing Incentives for Inexpert Human Raters

Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2011
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 25 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 27 May 2017
Aaron Shaw, John J. Horton and Daniel L. Chen
Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse School of Economics, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France
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Experimentation, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Human Computation, Crowdsourcing, Search, Content Analysis, Economics, Sociology, Experimentation, Measurement, Human Factors

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Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda

NBER Working Paper No. w19525
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 11 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 09 May 2021
Ajay K. Agrawal, John J. Horton, Nicola Lacetera and Elizabeth Lyons
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, University of Toronto - Strategic Management and University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows

NBER Working Paper No. w23398
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 18 May 2017 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2022
John J. Horton, William Kerr and Christopher Stanton
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Steering in Online Markets: The Role of Platform Incentives and Credibility

NBER Working Paper No. w25917
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2022
Moshe Barach, Joseph Golden and John J. Horton
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management, Collage.com and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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The Production and Consumption of Social Media

NBER Working Paper No. w28666
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 12 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2022
Apostolos Filippas and John J. Horton
Fordham University - Gabelli School of Business and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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The Ruble Collapse in an Online Marketplace: Some Lessons for Market Designers

NBER Working Paper No. w28702
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 26 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2022
John J. Horton
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Cheap Talk Messages for Market Design: Theory and Evidence from a Labor Market with Directed Search

NBER Working Paper No. w29445
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 08 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2022
John J. Horton, Ramesh Johari and Philipp Kircher
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, Stanford University and Cornell University
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Are Online Labor Markets Spot Markets for Tasks?: A Field Experiment on the Behavioral Response to Wage Cuts

Information Systems Research, Vol. 27(2), p. 403-423, 2016
Posted: 05 Jun 2017
Daniel L. Chen and John J. Horton
Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse School of Economics, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences

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Economics of IS; Electronic Commerce; Field Experiments; IT and New Organizational Forms