The struggle of social media platforms to moderate content in a timely manner, encourages
users to abuse such platforms to spread vulgar or abusive language, which, when …

We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on
social capital. Guided by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a …

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LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE …

The rise of social media has provoked both optimism about potential societal benefits and
concern about harms such as addiction, depression, and political polarization. In a …

This study presents a thorough examination of various Generative Pretrained Transformer
(GPT) methodologies in sentiment analysis, specifically in the context of Task 4 on the …

We study how social media affects election outcomes in the United States. We use variation
in the number of Twitter users across counties induced by early adopters at the 2007 South …

Mental health disorders are among the leading causes of disease burden worldwide.
Recently, attention has been drawn to the Internet and social media as determinants of the …

In this survey we discuss the recent causal panel data literature. This recent literature has
focused on credibly estimating causal effects of binary interventions in settings with …

THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Jonathan Haidt is a modern-day prophet,
disguised as a psychologist... He points the way forward to a brighter, stronger future for us …

This paper assesses mental health responses to information on environmental risks. We
exploit the progressive implementation of a national program in China that introduces more …