Search

Showing 15,061-15,080 of 17,813 items.

Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing

By Chiara Farronato, Andrey Fradkin, Bradley J. Larsen, and Erik Brynjolfsson

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2024

We study the demand and supply implications of occupational licensing using transaction-level data from a large online platform for home improvement services. We find that demand is more responsive to a professional's reviews than to the professional's pl...