by Dara Lee Luca and Michael Luca - Publications - Faculty & Research

77 percent of the possible variation for income. By contrast, other measures such as race and education only account for 25 percent of variation. Even more interesting, the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

22 Apr 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Is No News (Perceived as) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure

Keywords: by Ginger Jin, Michael Luca & Daniel Martin

28 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

establishments would go under. “We see that lower-rated restaurants generally go out of business at higher rates, so they already tend to be living closer to the edge,” says Michael Luca, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

25 Jan 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman, Michael Luca & Daniel Svirsky; Tourism; Travel; Technology

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

harsher penalties for students proven to have committed sexual assault. In that way, the media is serving the purpose of holding colleges accountable by deterring future scandals. “These stories raise awareness View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

24 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

Professor Michael Luca set to find out exactly by how much, and identify winners and losers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

research studies by Harvard Business School faculty explore this brave new world of "oversharing" — asking what it means to organizations and to reputation when we decide to buck the trend View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 May 2017
News

Minimum wage increases can kill businesses — if they already stink

09 May 2017
News

The Minimum Wage Eats Restaurants

29 Jun 2015
News

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Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit

Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com

Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence

What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews

Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings

Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com

Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life

Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity at Scale

Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change

When $3+$1 > $4: The Effect of Gift Salience on Employee Effort in an Online Labor Market

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp