Pinar Yildirim

While many collective action efforts are going on in parallel, to remind the efforts before our time, let me tweet about a working paper we have on one of the first grassroots collective action efforts of women in the US taking place between 1873-1874: The Temperance Crusade.

📢 Call for papers 9th Economics of Media Bias Workshop Keynotes: Ruben Durante (NUS) and Pinar Yildrim (Wharton) 🗓️ May 28th-29th 2026 📍 Berlin, Germany ⏰ Deadline: January 31st 2026 Full CfP and information on how to submit: tinyurl.com/2s3f6tar

ICYMI: Chetty on surrogates, Imai on mediation. I keep suggesting these lectures to colleagues and students!

Happening now: LDI Fellow Pinar Yildrim (@Prof_Yildirim) speaks at this seminar on AI in team dynamics. ⤵️

Looking forward to being on VIDE series again!

UTD-FORMS Conference is a leading conference for academics in marketing, economics, and related fields to share recent research and get useful feedback. Happy to be in the scientific committee this year. Submit your best papers! jindal.utdallas.edu/20th-annual-ba…

(4) With optimal AI adoption, some wages within a homogenous team may increase, and intra-team wage inequality may decline. If you read the paper, please share your feedback with us.

(3) The principal may choose not to fully exhaust the AI capacity at her discretion, that is, the rate of AI adoption is not necessarily defined by the technological resource constraints.

Briefly back to talk about a new working paper titled “Artificial Intelligence in Team Dynamics: Who Gets Replaced and Why?,” co-authored with Xienan Cheng and Mustafa Dogan: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

It will be interesting to see how tariffs, which are seemingly tangential to social media platforms and advertising markets, will have an impact on them.

The journal also cites "dampened enthusiasm for chasing U.S. users if the cost of doing business here rises dramatically" as a reason for international advertisers to cut down spending on US social media.

While there is a lot of discussion on the effects of tariffs on industrials, lesser attention is paid to the effects on social media companies and advertising platforms. Below @WSJ figure demonstrates a negative effect, but is there anything specific to social media platforms?

Thanks to @PatrickCoffee of @WSJ for referring to our research and some quotes from me in this article.

@ben_golub @emollick @joshgans What now? We would re-adjust the bar for what we expect to get published and what we give credit to. We’ve always done this as the costs of doing various research activities fell. + These papers are likely to crowd out the long tail of papers, which may not be a bad thing.

@emollick @joshgans What now? Doing real research that genuinely pushes the boundaries of what we know, rather than getting publication credits for going through the motions of academic activity (as the median academic does).

Economist @joshgans uses o1-pro to generate a (minor, fun) paper in an hour based on an idea of his, and it gets published in an appropriate peer reviewed journal, with adequate disclosure. He ends with the same sentiment I am increasingly seeing from fellow academics: what now?