Papers Under Review
- The Paradox of Openness: Exposure vs. Efficiency of APIs, with Seth Benzell, Guillermo Lagarda Cuervas, and Marshall Van Alstyne
- Status: Reject and Resubmit, Management Science
- Digitally Distracted at the Wheel: Myopic Smartphone Use and Car Accidents, with Bree Lang and Matt Lang.
- Status: Under Review
- Poverty from Space: Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery for Estimating Economic Well-being and Geographic Targeting, with Ryan Engstrom and David Newhouse
- [slides] [Press: Brookings, Bloomberg, Atlantic City Lab, Fast Company, Borgen Magazine]
- Status: 1st Round Revisions Submitted, World Bank Economic Review
- Sweet diversity: Colonial goods and the rise of European living standards after 1492, with Hans-Joachim Voth
- Status: 1st Round Revisions Submitted, Explorations in Economic History
Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals
- Open Data for Algorithms: Mapping Poverty in Belize Using Openly Available Satellite Features and Machine Learning, with Ryan Engstrom and Mike Mann. Conditionally accepted , Information Technology for Development
- The Effect of Piracy Website Blocking on Consumer Behavior (with Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang), MIS Quarterly, 2020.
- Matthew Harding and Jonathan Hersh. Big Data in Economics (2018), IZA World of Labor
- Brian Bettenhausen, Eric Hanss, Jonathan Hersh, and Carlos Villarreal. Historical Health Conditions in Major US Cities: The HUE Data Set Historical Methods, (2014) 47 : 67 -80.
Conference Publications
- Poverty Mapping Using Convolutional Neural Networks Trained on High and Medium Resolution Satellite Images, With an Application in Mexico (with Boris Babenko, David Newhouse, Anusha Ramakrishnan, and Tom Swartz) Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems 2017.
- Engstrom, R., Newhouse, D., Haldavanekar, V., Copenhaver, A., & Hersh, J. (2017, March). Evaluating the Relationship Between Spatial and Spectral Features Derived from High Spatial Resolution Satellite Data and Urban Poverty in Colombo, Sri Lanka. In Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), 2017 Joint (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
Work in Progress
- Do Managers Trust Algorithms for High Stakes Decisions? A Machine Learning Decision Support Tool for Estimating Delays in Multi Million Dollar Loans
- First draft completed. Revising and running additional experiments
- The MegafilmesHD Shutdown in Brazil and its Effect on Piracy and Media Consumption, with Brett Danaher and Mike D. Smith
- Analysis completed. Writing first draft.
- Analysis completed. Writing first draft.
- Analyzing Conflict From Space: Identification of Physical Destruction During the Syrian Civil War, with Hannes Muller, Andre Groger, and Andrea Matranga
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- [latest slides]
- First draft completed. Revising for submission
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- Combining Deep Learning With Surveys to Generate Better Poverty Maps, with an application to Mexico, with Boris Babenko, David Newhouse, Anusha Ramakrishnan, and Tom Swartz
- Analysis complete. Writing first draft.
Resting Working Papers
- Unintended Consequences of the African Growth and Opportunity Act: The Role of Trade Diversion and Structural Change (with Klaus-Peter Hellwig)”
- [draft available upon request]
- Robust determinants of Bilateral Flows (with Marianne Baxter)
- [latest draft] [slides]
- Building a better model: Variable selection to predict poverty in Pakistan and Sri Lanka (with Marium Afzal and David Newhouse)”