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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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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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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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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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A year of pandemic: levels, changes and validity of well-being data from Twitter : evidence from ten countries

Sarracino, Francesco; Greyling, Talita; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021

National Happiness (GNH), a country-level index built applying sentiment analysis to data from Twitter. We aim to describe how … the data sourced from Twitter, we exploit various survey data sources, such as the Eurobarometer and consumer satisfaction …

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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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Surfing alone? : the Internet and social capital ; evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...

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Is rationing in the microfinance sector determined by the microfinance type? : evidence from Ghana

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Sackey, Frank Gyimah - 2015

This study sets out to examine the extent to which access to credit and credit rationing are influenced by the microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises' access to credit from microfinance institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The...

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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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Internet and voting in the Web 2.0 era : evidence from a local broadband policy

Poy, Samuele; Schüller, Simone - 2016

This article analyzes the impact of a local broadband expansion policy on electoral turnout and party vote share. We exploit a unique policy intervention involving staged broadband infrastructure installation across rural municipalities in the Province of Trento (Italy), thus generating a source...

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