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Can Social Media Rhetoric Incite Hate Incidents? Evidence from Trump's "Chinese Virus" Tweets

Cao, Andy; Lindo, Jason M.; Zhong, Jiee - 2022

We investigate whether Donald Trump's "Chinese Virus" tweets contributed to the rise of anti-Asian incidents. We find that the number of incidents spiked following Trump’s initial “Chinese Virus” tweets and the subsequent dramatic rise in internet search activity for the phrase....

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Patent Citations and International Knowledge Flow : The Cases of Korea and Taiwan

Hu, Albert Guangzhou; Jaffe, Adam B. - 2021

This paper examines patterns of knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan using patent citations as an … knowledge diffusion over time, we have found that knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan exhibits quite …

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The Contribution of Chinese Diaspora Researchers to Global Science and China's Catching Up in Scientific Research

Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

This study examines the contribution of Chinese diaspora researchers – those born in China but working outside the … country – to China's catching up in global science to become a world leader in research publications and citations. Using a … networks that connect scientific discovery in China with the rest of the world. In co-authorship, diaspora researchers are over …

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The Effectiveness of Digital Interventions on Covid-19 Attitudes and Beliefs

Athey, Susan; Grabarz, Kristen; Luca, Michael; … - 2022

During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, a common strategy for public health organizations around the world has been to launch interventions via advertising campaigns on social media. Despite this ubiquity, little has been known about their average effectiveness. We conduct a large-scale...

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Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election

Allcott, Hunt - 2017

Following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, many have expressed concern about the effects of false stories (“fake news”), circulated largely through social media. We discuss the economics of fake news and present new data on its consumption prior to the election. Drawing on web browsing...

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Exit, Tweets and Loyalty

Gans, Joshua - 2017

Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty highlights the role of “voice” in disciplining firms for low quality. We develop a formal model of voice as a relational contact between firms and consumers and show that voice is more likely to emerge in concentrated markets. We test this model using...

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Measuring Social Connectedness

Bailey, Michael - 2017

We introduce a new measure of social connectedness between U.S. county-pairs, as well as between U.S. counties and foreign countries. Our measure, which we call the "Social Connectedness Index" (SCI), is based on the number of friendship links on Facebook, the world's largest online social...

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Ideological Segregation Among Online Collaborators : Evidence from Wikipedians

Greenstein, Shane M. - 2016

Do online communities segregate into separate conversations about “contestable knowledge”? We analyze the contributors of biased and slanted content in Wikipedia articles about U.S. politics, and focus on two research questions: (1) Do contributors display tendencies to contribute to topics...

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The Bigger Picture : Combining Econometrics with Analytics Improve Forecasts of Movie Success

Lehrer, Steven F. - 2018

There exists significant hype regarding how much machine learning and incorporating social media data can improve forecast accuracy in commercial applications. To assess if the hype is warranted, we use data from the film industry in simulation experiments that contrast econometric approaches...

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Social Media, Sentiment and Public Opinions : Evidence from #Brexit and #Uselection

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2018

This paper studies information diffusion in social media and the role of bots in shaping public opinions. Using Twitter data on the 2016 E.U. Referendum (“Brexit”) and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, we find that diffusion of information on Twitter is largely complete within 1-2 hours....

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