Economists have discovered an odd phenomenon: many people who use social media (even you, maybe?) wish it didn’t exist. But that doesn’t mean they can escape. <ul><li>SOURCES:<ul><li><a href="https://home.uchicago.edu/bursztyn/">Leonardo Bursztyn</a>, professor of economics at the University of Chicago.</li><li><a href="https://www.benjaminhandel.com/">Benjamin Handel</a>, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>RESOURCES:<ul><li>"<a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w31771">When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media</a>," by Leonardo Bursztyn, Benjamin Handel, Rafael Jimenez, and Christopher Roth (NBER Working Paper, 2023).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w26567">Social Media and Xenophobia: Evidence from Russia</a>," by Leonardo Bursztyn, Georgy Egorov, Ruben Enikolopov, and Maria Petrova (NBER Working Paper, 2019).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w23414">Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards</a>," by Leonardo Bursztyn, Bruno Ferman, Stefano Fiorin, Martin Kanz, and Gautam Rao (NBER Working Paper, 2017).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20170029">'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments</a>," by Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Fujiwara, and Amanda Pallais (American Economic Review, 2017).</li><li>"<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2012.00506.x">Measuring Crack Cocaine and Its Impact</a>," by Roland G. Fryer Jr., Paul S. Heaton, Steven D. Levitt, and Kevin M. Murphy (Economic Inquiry, 2013).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>EXTRAS:<ul><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-facebook-bad-for-your-mental-health/">Is Facebook Bad for Your Mental Health?</a>" by Freakonomics, M.D. (2022).</li><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-u-s-media-so-negative/">Why Is U.S. Media So Negative?</a>" by Freakonomics Radio (2021).</li></ul></li></ul>

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