Work in Progress
- Selina Carter & Jonathan Hersh. (2021). Do Managers Trust Algorithms for High Stakes Decisions? Evidence From a Field Experiment on How Managers Use AI
Papers With Editorial Decisions
- Seth Benzell, Jonathan Hersh, & Marshall Van Alstyne. (2021). How APIs Create Growth by Inverting the Firm
- 1st round revisions submitted to Management Science
- Jonathan Hersh, Bree Lang, & Matthew Lang. (2020). Digitally Distracted at the Wheel: Myopic Smartphone Use and Car Accidents
- Revisions requested at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
- Jonathan Hersh & Hans-Joachim Voth. (2018). Sweet Diversity: Overseas Trade and Gains from Variety after 1492, with Hans-Joachim Voth.
- 2nd round revisions requested at Explorations in Economic History
Submitted Papers
- Brett Danaher & Jonathan Hersh. (2020). Whom Should Antipiarcy Enforcement Actions Target? Evidence from the MegafilmesHD Shutdown in Brazil
- Under review
- Shima Nabiee, Jonathan Hersh, Matthew Harding, & Nader Bagherzadeh, (2021). Hybrid U-Net: Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution Satellite Images to Detect War Destruction
- Under review
Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals
- (6) Ryan Engstrom, Jonathan Hersh, & David Newhouse. (2021). Poverty from Space: Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery for Estimating Economic Well-being, The World Bank Economic Review; lhab015, https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhab015
- [slides] [Press: Brookings, Bloomberg, Atlantic City Lab, Fast Company, Borgen Magazine]
- (5) Hannes Mueller, Andre Groger, Jonathan Hersh, Andrea Matranga, & Joan Serrat. (2021). Analyzing Conflict From Space: Identification of Physical Destruction During the Syrian Civil War with Artificial Intelligence Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 8, 2021 118 (23) e2025400118;https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2025400118
- (4) Jonathan Hersh, Ryan Engstrom, & Michael Mann, (2020). Open data for algorithms: mapping poverty in Belize using open satellite derived features and machine learning. Information Technology for Development, 1-30.
- (3) Brett Danaher, Jonathan Hersh, Michael D. Smith, & Rahul Telang R. (2020). The Effect of Piracy Website Blocking on Consumer Behavior MIS Quarterly, 44:2
- (2) Matthew Harding and Jonathan Hersh. Big Data in Economics (2018), IZA World of Labor
- (1) 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.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
- 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.
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)”