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Does social recognition motivate prosocial individuals? We run large-scale experiments among members of Italy's main blood donors association, testing social recognition both through social media and peer groups. We experimentally disentangle visibility concerns and peer comparisons, and we...
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We present a new measure for the political position of news outlets based on politicians' selective sharing of news items. Politicians predominantly share news items that are in line with their political position, hence, one can infer the political position of news outlets from the politicians'...
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The importance of user-generated content is growing as media consumption is moving online; yet, investigations of media …
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complementarity/substitutability between the different forms of mobilization and find that blockades were planned online and later … reinforced online activism. Second, we do textual analysis and show that online discussions evolved from local concerns to … government's party in its bastions, except when they nurtured further online dissent. …
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Social media has made anonymized behavior online a prevalent part of many people's daily interactions. The implications …
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during the 2016 US presidential campaign. We measure the intensity of online campaigns using variation in ad prices charged …
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This study investigates the effects of variation in "congeniality" of news on Facebook user engagement (likes, shares, and comments). We compile an original data set of Facebook posts by 84 German news outlets on politicians that were investigated for criminal offenses from January 2012 to June...
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Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...
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This paper quantifies the impact of online vaccine skepticism on pediatric vaccine uptake and health outcomes. We …
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Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...
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