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Endogenous network formation in Congress
Canen, Nathan; Trebbi, Francesco - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011567455
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What is a peer? : the role of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects
Halliday, Timothy J. (contributor); Kwak, Sally (contributor) - 2008
We employ a standard identification strategy from the peer effects literature to investigate the importance of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects. We use detailed information on friends in the Adolescent Longitudinal Health Survey (Add Health) to construct two network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656911
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From shame to game in one hundred years : an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the … ; parents ; premarital sex ; out-of-wedlock births ; socialization ; stigmatization ; technological progress …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935113
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From shame to game in one hundred years : an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950369
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From shame to game in one hundred years : a macroeconomic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009381487
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Friends and foes at work : assigning teams in a social network
Daske, Thomas - 2017
In many firms, production requires the division of staff into teams. If only team performance is observable, moral hazard in teams is inevitable. This variant of moral hazard can be overcome or exacerbated by the interpersonal relationships among team members. I investigate how the division of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773831
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Fund What You Trust? Social Capital in Crowdfunding
Lin, Tse-Chun - 2020
We find a strong positive relationship between entrepreneurs' home-county social capital and their crowdfunding performance on Kickstarter. We exploit a quasi-experiment based on a Kickstarter rule change that strengthens entrepreneurs' obligation to provide backers with the promised rewards and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012853251
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Party On : The Labor Market Returns to Social Networks and Socializing
Lleras-Muney, Adriana - 2020
A person's schooling years are a formative time for cognitive development, and also a period of intense social interaction and friendship formation. In this paper, we estimate the production of social capital during adolescence and its effect on wages. We develop a model where homophily and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481531
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Party on : the labor market returns to social networks and socializing
Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Miller, Matthew; Sheng, Shuyang; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240698
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Targeted socialization and production
Albornoz, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267181