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media status (Twitter). Our treatments mimic two strategies often suggested as a way to limit polarization on social media … study a group of non-Twitter users in order to have a simple, offline benchmark of the debate's impact on polarization …
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A substantial experimental literature suggests that a personal solicitation is an effective way to induce people to make charitable donations. We examine whether this result generalizes to a non-experimental setting. Specifically, we estimate the effect of a marginal personal solicitation using...
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In economics, alphabetical name order is the baseline norm for joint publications. A growing literature suggests, however, that alphabetical order confers uneven benefits on the first author. This paper introduces and studies certified random order, which involves randomization of names that is...
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While linking records across large administrative datasets ["big data"] has the potential to revolutionize empirical social science research, many administrative data files do not have common identifiers and are thus not designed to be linked to others. To address this problem, researchers have...
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This paper presents market-based evidence that President Trump influences expectations about monetary policy. We use tick-by-tick fed funds futures data and a collection of Trump tweets criticizing the conduct of monetary policy and consistently advocating that the Fed lower interest rates....
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The network of economists who publish in leading journals is generally perceived as small, exclusive, and tightly knit …. We study how author-editor and author-reviewer network connectivity and "match" influences editor decisions and reviewer …
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estimable formulae for the effects of fiscal policies on aggregate GDP, or fiscal multipliers, and show how network structures …
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assumption that the process starts with every node in the network having a signal. We study a natural extension of the DeGroot … agent. This characterization result then allows us to relate network geometry to information aggregation. We identify an … example of a network structure where essentially only the signal of a single agent is aggregated, which helps us pinpoint a …
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organising its national road systems. I then construct a novel dataset of local network inefficiency and I find that colonial …
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for their legislative activity. We propose a novel equilibrium concept for the network formation game that allows for a …
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