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The Role of Social Networks in Cultural Assimilation
Verdier, Thierry - 2015
We develop a model where, in the first stage, minority individuals have to decide whether or not they want to assimilate to the majority culture while, in the second stage, all individuals (both from the majority and the minority group) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they...
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Social Networks
de Martí, Joan - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153178
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital : Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 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 …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …
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Conducting Interactive Experiments Online
Arechar, Antonio - 2017
interactive experiments via the Internet is adequate and reliable, making online interactive experimentation a valuable complement …
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Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – an Experimental Study
Grözinger, Nicola - 2020
In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...
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Social Media Use and Children's Wellbeing
McDool, Emily - 2016
work also contributes to wider debates about the socioeconomic consequences of the internet and digital technologies more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977331
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Social Media Extensive Use and Emotional and Behavioural Outcomes in Adolescence : Evidence from British Longitudinal Data
McNamee, Paul - 2019
We investigate the relationship between social media use and emotional and behavioural outcomes in adolescence using data from a large and detailed longitudinal study of teenagers from the UK. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study in economics to analyse the effect of social...
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Civility and Trust in Social Media
Antoci, Angelo - 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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Viral Altruism? Generosity and Social Contagion in Online Networks
Lacetera, Nicola - 2015
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; Ferreira, Bruno Chaves; Caroli, Eve; … - 2021
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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