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This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or religious diversity. We experimentally vary leader identity in a coordination game and implement it in the field across 44 towns in India. We find that religious minority leaders...
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power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …
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This paper employs a unique dataset on articles, authors and editors of the top general interest journals in economics to investigate the role of social connections in the publication process. Ties between editors and authors are identified based on their academic histories. Results show that an...
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childhood circumstances and labor market outcomes on the one hand, and heights on the other, when networks are included as … labor market outcomes suggests that, while childhood circumstances affect height largely via social status and networks as …
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Social networks are known to influence migration decisions, but connections between individuals can hardly be observed …
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. What if networks rewire in response to changes in the economic environment, such as a randomized intervention? We exploit a …
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international trade between the different countries, depending on the types of networks formed. We present possible applications of …
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Greater levels of social mobility are widely seen as desirable on grounds of both equity and efficiency. Debate on social mobility in Britain and elsewhere has recently focused on specific factors that might hinder social mobility, including the role of internships and similar employment...
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job finding networks. Using matched employer-employee data from Hungary, this paper relates the unemployment duration of … displaced workers to the employment rate of their former coworker networks. We find that while coworkers from all occupations …
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One definition of social capital is the "networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular … this definition, is still very broad. Networks can be formed along many dimensions of society in which people interact … - neighborhoods, workplaces, extended families, schools, etc. We focus on networks whose existence fosters social capital in one …
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