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- May 2018
- Article
Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change
By: Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
Data from digital platforms have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification and enable new measures of how neighborhoods change in close to real time. Combining data on businesses from Yelp with data on gentrification from the Census, Federal Housing...
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Keywords:
Forecasting Models;
Simulation Methods;
Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, And Changes;
Geographic Location;
Local Range;
Transition;
Analytics and Data Science;
Measurement and Metrics;
Economic Growth;
Forecasting and Prediction
Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change." AEA Papers and Proceedings 108 (May 2018): 77–82.
- 21 Apr 2017
- News
What Can Yelp Reviews Tell Us About the Minimum Wage?
- 24 Oct 2011
- News
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com, which explored how restaurant reviews on Yelp affect their bottom lines.) Reviewing The Reviewers After spending some time on Yelp, Luca questioned whether the site's star-based rating system (five stars for...
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- 2017
- Working Paper
Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity
By: Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity at the local level. However, these statistics typically appear only...
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Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-022, September 2017. (Revised October 2017.)
- 08 May 2017
- News
Restaurants With Low Yelp Ratings Suffer Under Higher Minimum Wages
- 2018
- Working Paper
Measuring Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change
By: Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
We demonstrate that data from digital platforms such as Yelp have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification, both by providing data in close to real time (i.e., nowcasting and forecasting) and by providing additional context about how the local...
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Keywords:
Geographic Location;
Local Range;
Transition;
Analytics and Data Science;
Measurement and Metrics;
Forecasting and Prediction
Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Measuring Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 24952, August 2018.
- 28 Jan 2013
- News
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
- 23 Sep 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity at Scale
- March 2018 (Revised February 2023)
- Teaching Note
Managing Diversity and Inclusion at Yelp
By: Michael Luca, Joshua Schwartzstein and Gauri Subramani
Teaching Note for HBS No. 918-009.
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- 06 Aug 2014
- News
Yelp CEO Reviews His Own Business
- September 2017 (Revised February 2023)
- Supplement
Managing Diversity and Inclusion at Yelp (B)
By: Michael Luca, Joshua Schwartzstein and Gauri Subramani
Supplements the (A) case.
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Luca, Michael, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Gauri Subramani. "Managing Diversity and Inclusion at Yelp (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 918-012, September 2017. (Revised February 2023.)
- 28 Jun 2013
- News
Is Yelp a Bully or Just Misunderstood?
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
Yelp restaurant reviews to target hygiene inspections? “There is so much data now, it’s exhilarating—and frightening” “There is all sorts of data that is coming in now,” says Luca, “and if you use it carefully you could revamp the way...
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- 05 Oct 2012
- News
HBS Study Finds Positive Yelp Reviews Boost Business
- 15 Jan 2014
- News
Yelp giving businesses that buy ads preferential treatment?
- 05 Mar 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change
- 05 Oct 2011
- News
Harvard Study: Yelp Drives Demand for Independent Restaurants
- 17 Jul 2013
- News