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Civility and trust in social media
Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018
the environment of social networking sites hostile to many users. We conduct a novel experiment in a Facebook setting to … that participants exposed to civil Facebook interaction are significantly more trusting. In contrast, when the use of … Facebook is accompanied by the experience of online incivility, no significant changes occur in users' behavior. These results …
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Daily use of social media is associated with more body dissatisfaction of teenage girls in a large cross-cultural survey
Napp, Clotilde; Breda, Thomas - 2022
Most teenagers spend several hours per day on social media. We provide a large-scale investigation of the relationship between social media daily usage and body dissatisfaction among a sample of more than 50,000 15 y.o. students. This relation is positive and large for girls - higher use of...
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Do they find you on Facebook? : Facebook profile picture and hiring chances
Baert, Stijn - 2015
We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring … Belgium. The only characteristic in which these candidates differ is the unique Facebook profile that can be found online with … their name. Candidates with the most beneficial Facebook picture obtain approximately 39% more job interview invitations …
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On the validity of using webpage texts to identify the target population of a survey : an application to detect online platforms
Daas, Piet J. H.; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Klijs, Bart - 2023
A statistical classification model was developed to identify online platform organizations based on the texts on their website. The model was subsequently used to identify all (potential) platform organizations with a website included in the Dutch Business Register. The empirical outcomes of the...
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The behavioral, economic, and political impact of the internet and social media : empirical challenges and approaches
Sabatini, Fabio - 2023
This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...
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Can patience account for subnational differences in student achievement? : regional analysis with Facebook interests
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - 2023
within-country disparities. We use social-media data - Facebook interests - to construct novel regional measures of patience …
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Consumer search costs and preferences on the internet
Jolivet, Grégory; Turon, Hélène - 2014
We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price dispersion among adverts for the same product. We also show...
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Consumption network effects
De Giorgi, Giacomo; Frederiksen, Anders; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2016
In this paper we study the relevance and mechanics of consumption network effects. We use long panel data on the entire Danish population to construct a measure of consumption based on administrative tax records, and define the peer groups in terms of workplace, occupation, education, and age....
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Viral altruism? : generosity and social contagion in online networks
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mele, Angelo - 2014
How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates donations while broadcasting donors' activities to their contacts. We find that broadcasting is...
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Don't downsize this! : social reactions to mass dismissals on Twitter
Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Chaves Ferreira, Bruno; … - 2020
We study the reactions to job destructions on Twitter. We use information on large-scale job-destruction and job-creation events announced in the United Kingdom over the period 2013-2018. We match it with data collected on Twitter regarding the number and sentiments of the tweets posted around...
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