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Bailey, Michael - 2019

We use anonymized and aggregated data from Facebook to explore the spatial structure of social networks in the New York … related to past migration movements …

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Social Media and Xenophobia : Evidence from Russia

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2019

We study the causal effect of social media on ethnic hate crimes and xenophobic attitudes in Russia using quasi-exogenous variation in social media penetration across cities. Higher penetration of social media led to more ethnic hate crimes, but only in cities with a high pre-existing level of...

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International Trade and Social Connectedness

Bailey, Michael - 2020

We use anonymized data from Facebook to construct a new measure of the pairwise social connectedness between 180 …

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Measuring Social Connectedness

Bailey, Michael - 2017

links on Facebook, the world's largest online social networking service. Within the U.S., social connectedness is strongly … connectedness is also associated with more cross-county migration and patent citations. Social connectedness between U.S. counties … and foreign countries is correlated with past migration patterns, with social connectedness decaying in the time since the …

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Social Networks and Housing Markets

Bailey, Michael - 2016

anonymized social network information from Facebook with housing transaction data and a survey. We first show that in the survey …

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When Product Markets Become Collective Traps : The Case of Social Media

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Handel, Benjamin R.; Jiménez … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Individuals might experience negative utility from not consuming a popular product. For example, being inactive on social media can lead to social exclusion or not owning luxury brands can be associated with having a low social status. We show that, in the presence of such spillovers to...

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