Estimating heterogeneous consumer preferences for restaurants and travel time using mobile location data

Published in AEA Papers and Proceedings
Author

Athey, Susan, David Blei, Robert Donnelly, Francisco Ruiz, and Tobias Schmidt

Published

May 1, 2018

We estimate a model of consumer choices over restaurants using data from thousands of anonymous mobile phone users. We analyze how consumers reallocate their demand after a restaurant closes and make predictions about what types of restaurants would attract the most customers in a given location.

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