Research Papers

Job Market Paper

  1. "Computer-mediated Matchmaking: Facilitating Employer Search and Screening," 2012. Status: Draft available.

Working Papers

  1. "Employer Expectations, Peer Effects and Productivity: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments," 2010. Status: Draft available.
  2. "The Wages of Pay Cuts: Evidence from a Field Experiment" (with Daniel Chen), 2012. Status: Draft available.
  3. "Procurement, Incentives and Bargaining Friction: Evidence from Government Contracts," 2009. Status: R&R at The Journal of Law & Economics

Publications in Economics Journals

  1. "The Online Laboratory: Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market" (with David Rand and Richard Zeckhauser) Experimental Economics, 14:3 (2011), 399-425.
  2. "The Condition of the Turking Class: Are Online Employers Fair and Honest?" Economics Letters, 111:1 (April 2011), 10-12.

Publications in Computer Science Journals / Published Proceedings

  1. "The Future of Crowd Work" (with Aniket Kittur, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Michael S. Bernstein, Elizabeth M. Gerber, Aaron Shaw, John Zimmerman and Matthew Lease), Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ACM-CSCW), February 2013.
  2. "Labor Allocation in Paid Crowdsourcing: Experimental Evidence on Positioning, Nudges and Prices" (with Dana Chandler), Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP), August 2011.
  3. "Designing Incentives for Inexpert Human Raters" (with Aaron Shaw and Daniel Chen), Proceedings of the ACM Conference of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ACM-CSCW), Best Paper Nominee, March 2011.
  4. "Online Labor Markets," Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), December 2010
  5. "Algorithmic Wage Negotiations: Applications to Paid Crowdsourcing" (with Richard Zeckhauser), Proceedings of CrowdConf, 2010
  6. "Task Search in a Human Computation Market" (with Lydia Chilton, Rob Miller and Shiri Azenkot), Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining/Human Computation (ACM-KDD/HCOMP), 2010.
  7. "The Labor Economics of Paid Crowdsourcing" (with Lydia Chilton), Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM-EC), 2010.

Resting Papers

  1. "The Dot Guessing Game: A Fruit Fly For Human Computation," 2010. Status: Draft available.

Non-refereed Publications

  1. "The Need for Standardization in Crowdsourcing" (with Panagiotis Ipeirotis), presented at the Crowdsourcing Workshop, ACM-CHI 2011 (Vancouver, BC), May 2011.
  2. "Heads in the Cloud: Challenges and Opportunities in Human Computation" (with Robert C. Miller, Greg Little, Michael Bernstein, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Lydia B. Chilton, Max Goldman and Rajeev Nayak), XRDS: Crossroads, the ACM Magazine for Students, December 2010.

Research Papers in Progress

  1. "Overcoming Congestion in a Matching Market by Making Applications Costly" (with R. Johari and D. Chandler).
  2. "Virtual Migration: the Effect of Outsourcing through Online Platforms on Workers in Developing Countries" (with D. Pomeranz).
  3. "Digitization of Information and the Market for Contract Labor" (with A. Agrawal, N. Lacetera and E. Lyons). To appear in the NBER Economics of Digitization volume.
  4. "Helping Workers Make Human Capital Decisions via Algorithmic Recommendations" (with P. Coles).