Does Online Search Crowd Out Traditional Search and Improve Matching Efficiency? Evidence from Craigslist

By Kory Kroft, Devin G. Pope. Journal of Labor Economics, 2014

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Subfields: Marketing, Media Technology, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• New Insights into Rental Housing Markets across the United States: Web Scraping and Analyzing Craigslist Rental Listings (2016, background): “(Alexa 2015) and holds a near monopoly in the online rental listings space (Brown 2014). Between 2000 and 2007, Craigslist took a $5-billion bite out of newspapers’ ad revenue (Seamans and Zhu 2014). Kroft and Pope (2014) found that Craigslist precipitated a 10 percent reduction in average metropoli”
• The Rise of the Sharing Economy: Estimating the Impact of Airbnb on the Hotel Industry (2017, background): “For example, a number of recent studies have focused on the impact of Craigslist a website featuring free online classi ed ads on the newspaper industry (Kroft and Pope, 2014; Seamans and Zhu, 2013).”
• Advertising Expensive Mortgages (2016, unknown): “We find the same result using a Mann-Whitney test (p 0.001).”
• Job Search Behavior Among the Employed and Non-Employed (2017, unknown): “A growing literature studies job search behavior using job application data from online job search platforms (Kuhn and Shen, 2013; Kroft and Pope, 2014; Marinescu, 2017; Hershbein and Kahn, 2018; Faberman and Kudlyak, 2019; Banfi and Villena-Roldan, 2019, among others).”
• Financing dies in darkness? The impact of newspaper closures on public finance (2020, background): “…online database of classified advertisements that currently has over 60 million global users, and research has shown that advertising revenues for local newspapers were negatively affected by its expansion ( Gurun and Butler, 2012; Kroft and Pope, 2014; Seamans and Zhu, 2014; Gurun et al., 2016 ).”