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Civility and trust in social media
Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018
Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising phenomenon of online incivility, which has made the environment of social networking sites hostile...
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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 decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408193
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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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The effect of deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised good and its substitutes : the case of over-the-counter weight loss products
Cawley, John H.; Avery, Rosemary J.; Eisenberg, Matthew - 2013
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …
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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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The credibility revolution in empirical economics : how better research design is taking the con out of econometrics
Angrist, Joshua D.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2010
credibility revolution in empirical work can be traced to the rise of a design-based approach that emphasizes the identification … their prima facie credibility and by the attention investigators devote to making the case for a causal interpretation of …
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Education and health : the role of cognitive ability
Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - 2013
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent variable, and an ordinal educational variable. Data...
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Education, intelligence and diseases in old age
Niccodemi, Gianmaria; Bijwaard, Govert - 2018
Several studies have found a positive association between education and health. Confounding factors that a ect both education choices and health, such as (ob- served) parental background and (unobserved) intelligence, may play an important role in shaping this association. In this paper we...
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Comparing IV with structural models : what simple IV can and cannot identify
Heckman, James J.; Urzua, Sergio - 2009
This paper compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural approaches. We discuss Marschak's Maxim: estimators should be selected on the basis of their ability to answer well-posed economic problems with minimal assumptions. A key...
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