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The Salary Taboo : Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information

Cullen, Zoe - 2018

The limited diffusion of salary information has implications for labor markets, such as wage discrimination policies and collective bargaining. Access to salary information is believed to be limited and unequal, but there is little direct evidence on the sources of these information frictions....

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Trends in the Diffusion of Misinformation on Social Media

Allcott, Hunt - 2019

measure trends in the diffusion of content from 569 fake news websites and 9,540 fake news stories on Facebook and Twitter … between January 2015 and July 2018. User interactions with false content rose steadily on both Facebook and Twitter through … the end of 2016. Since then, however, interactions with false content have fallen sharply on Facebook while continuing to …

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Box Office Buzz : Does Social Media Data Steal the Show from Model Uncertainty When Forecasting for Hollywood?

Lehrer, Steven F. - 2016

Substantial excitement currently exists in industry regarding the potential of using analytic tools to measure sentiment in social media messages to help predict individual reactions to a new product, including movies. However, the majority of models subsequently used for forecasting exercises...

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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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Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information : Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Alatas, Vivi - 2012

We use unique data from 600 Indonesian communities on what individuals know about the poverty status of others to study how network structure influences information aggregation. We develop a model of semi-Bayesian learning on networks, which we structurally estimate using within-village data....

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Gossip : Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2014

Can we identify the members of a community who are best- placed to diffuse information simply by asking a random sample of individuals? We show that boundedly-rational individuals can, simply by tracking sources of gossip, identify those who are most central in a network according to "diffusion...

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Keep it Simple : A Field Experiment on Information Sharing in Social Networks

Batista, Catia - 2018

SMS information campaigns are increasingly used for policy. To investigate their effectiveness, we conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment to study information sharing through mobile phone messages. Subjects are rural households in Mozambique who have access to mobile money. In the base treatment,...

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