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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015014
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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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Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases : An Introduction
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2015
-based: CEPALSTAT, Income Distribution Database (IDD), LIS, PovcalNet, and Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean … (SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012798
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World Income Inequality Databases : An Assessment of Wiid and Swiid
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2014
This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality – the World Income Inequality Database … (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046233
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Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier : The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
Burks, Stephen V. - 2015
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750376
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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 several dimensions of social capital. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123919
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Conducting Interactive Experiments Online
Arechar, Antonio - 2017
Online labor markets provide new opportunities for behavioral research, but conducting economic experiments online raises important methodological challenges. This particularly holds for interactive designs. In this paper, we provide a methodological discussion of the similarities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963854
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834578
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Social Media Use and Children's Wellbeing
McDool, Emily - 2016
Childhood circumstances and behaviours have been shown to have important persistent effects in later life. One aspect of childhood that has changed dramatically in the past decade, and is causing concern among policy makers and other bodies responsible for safeguarding children, is the advent of...
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857701