Everything about Craigslist

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: CraigslistA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The Impact of Online Competition on Local Newspapers: Evidence from the Introduction of CraigslistInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: One Red PaperclipThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local NewspapersCited 390 times
5. Go sideways: KijijiA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Craigslist Inc. v. 3Taps Inc.A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers

  Robert Seamans, Feng Zhu · 2014 · Management Science · 390 citations

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

  Kory Kroft, Devin G. Pope · 2014 · Journal of Labor Economics · 181 citations

• New Insights into Rental Housing Markets across the United States: Web Scraping and Analyzing Craigslist Rental Listings

  Geoff Boeing, Paul Waddell · 2016 · Journal of Planning Education and Research · 128 citations

• Environmental Benefits of Internet-Enabled C2C Closed-Loop Supply Chains: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Craigslist

  Suvrat Dhanorkar · 2019 · Management Science · 98 citations

• Drug Abuse and the Internet: Evidence from Craigslist

  Jiayi Liu, Anandhi Bharadwaj · 2020 · Management Science · 53 citations

• The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Rental Market: Evidence From Craigslist

  John Kuk, Ariela Schachter, Jacob William Faber · 2021 · American Behavioral Scientist · 45 citations

• Does Craigslist Reduce Waste? Evidence from California and Florida

  Anders Fremstad · 2017 · Ecological Economics · 33 citations

• An invitation to use craigslist ads to recruit respondents from stigmatized groups for qualitative interviews

  Meredith GF Worthen · 2013 · Qualitative Research · 32 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The Impact of Online Competition on Local Newspapers: Evidence from the Introduction of Craigslist

  Milena Djourelova, Ruben Durante, Gregory J Martin · 2024 · Review of Economic Studies · 23 citations

• How digital platforms affect local entrepreneurial activities: Evidence from the staggered entry of craigslist

  Daehyun Kim, Yongwook Paik, Namil Kim · 2025 · Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal · 4 citations

• Confronting Cognitive Bias in Forensic Anthropology Michigan’s Craigslist Killer Case

  Alexis Goots, Joseph Hefner, David Start · 2022 · Forensic Anthropology · 2 citations

• Book Review: An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of Craigslist

  Sienna Helena Parker · 2022 · New Media & Society · 0 citations

• The impact of the online marketplace on fraud: Evidence from Craigslist from its early adoption in 1995 to its wider expansion in 2006

  Efthymia Antonoudi, Martin Seay, HanNa Lim · 2025 · Financial Services Review · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• One Red PaperclipKyle Macdonald, Kyle MacDonald · 1998
• Seven days of ragePaul Larosa · 2009
• Selling online 2.0Michael Miller · 2009
• Craigslist 4 everyoneJenna Lloyd · 2008
• My life on CraigslistAlexandra Ares · 2010
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Money with CraigslistSkip Press · 2009
• Craigslist Money MakingStephanie K. White · 2013
• Pimping Craigslist For Fun and ProfitGlendon Cameron · 2010

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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• Craigslist Inc. v. 3Taps Inc. Craigslist Inc. v. 3Taps Inc., 942 F.Supp.2d 962 (N.D. Cal. 2013) was a Northern District of California Court case in which the court held that sending…
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