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This paper estimates the effects of friends' health behaviors, smoking and drinking, on own health behaviors for adolescents while controlling for the effects of correlated unobservables between those friends. Specifically, the effect of friends' health behaviors is identified by comparing...
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We show that increasing the probability of obtaining a job offer through a network should raise the observed wages of … workers in jobs found through formal channels relative to those in jobs found through the network. This prediction holds at … are consistent with the primary effect of network strength being to increase the arrival rate of offers rather than to …
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for their legislative activity. We propose a novel equilibrium concept for the network formation game that allows for a …
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We develop and analyze a tractable empirical model for strategic network formation that can be estimated with data from … a single network at a single point in time. We model the network formation as a sequential process where in each period …, the characteristics of the potential partner, and on features of the current state of the network, such as whether the two …
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I build a simple dynamic model of the formation of an international social network of importers and exporters. Firms … can only export into markets in which they have a contact. They acquire new contacts both at random, and via their network …
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I propose a network/search view of international trade in differentiated products. I present evidence that supports the …
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enrolment among households that are embedded in a family network. Eligible but isolated households do not respond. The mechanism … network from eligibles that receive de facto unconditional cash transfers from Progresa, towards eligibles on the margin of …
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first characterize the biases in both network statistics and estimates of network effects under non-random sampling … theoretically and numerically. Sampled network data systematically bias the properties of observed networks and suffer from non … post-stratification weighting approaches to networked contexts, which enables researchers to recover several network …
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assumption that the process starts with every node in the network having a signal. We study a natural extension of the DeGroot … agent. This characterization result then allows us to relate network geometry to information aggregation. We identify an … example of a network structure where essentially only the signal of a single agent is aggregated, which helps us pinpoint a …
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Parochial politics is typically associated with poor leadership and low levels of public good provision. This paper explores the possibility that community involvement in politics need not necessarily worsen governance and, indeed, can be efficiency-enhancing when the context is appropriate....
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