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Dante Donati

Assistant Professor of Business
Marketing Division
Dante Donati, Instructor in Business
Areas of Expertise
Marketing
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Office: 783 Kravis
E-mail: [email protected]
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Curriculum Vitae

Dante Donati is a faculty member in the Marketing Division at Columbia Business School. His research covers a variety of empirical topics in Marketing and Economics, including measuring the effects of ICTs on economic, political and social outcomes, methodological work to conduct surveys and experiments on social media, as well as large-scale randomized experiments on the effectiveness of social and behavior change communication campaigns. He has conducted research in collaboration with the World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a number of nonprofit organizations around the world. He is also co-creator of Virtual Lab, an open-source platform for online surveys and evaluation of social media marketing campaigns. Professor Donati received a Master of Science degree cum laude in Economics from Bocconi University, and a Ph.D. degree cum laude in Economics, Finance and Business from Pompeu Fabra University.

Joined CBS
2022

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Working Paper
Donati, Dante and Hortense Fong
. The Cost of Banning TikTok: Implications for Digital Advertising. May 04, 2025.
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Working Paper
Donati, Dante, Victor Orozco-Olvera, and Nandan Rao
. Using Social Media to Change Gender Norms: An Experimental Evaluation Within Facebook Messenger in India. September 13, 2022.
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Working Paper
Donati, Dante
. The End of Tourist Traps: A Natural Experiment on the Impact of Tripadvisor on Quality Upgrading. July 15, 2022.
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Working Paper
Donati, Dante, Ruben Durante, Francesco Sobbrio, and Dijana Zejcirovic
. Lost in the Net? Broadband Internet and Youth Mental Health. May 27, 2022.
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Working Paper
Donati, Dante
. Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa. January 01, 2022.
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Working Paper
Rao, Nandan, Dante Donati , and Victor Orozco-Olvera
. Facebook Ads vs. Malaria: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in India. June 01, 2021.
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Working Paper
Rao, Nandan, Dante Donati , and Victor Orozco-Olvera
. Conducting Surveys and Interventions Entirely Online: A Virtual Lab Practitioner’s Manual. December 01, 2020.
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Course
B9655: MS Digital Marketing
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Course
B8679: Digital Marketing
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Course
B8680: Digital Marketing (Half Term)
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As Policymakers Debate TikTok’s Future, New Study Warns of Unintended Costs for Small Businesses

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Why a TikTok Ban Would Boost Meta’s Ad Prices—and Hurt Small Businesses

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Facebook vs. Malaria: How Social Media Campaigns Can Influence Public Health

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