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The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring
Bradley, Steven W. - 2018
received increased attention in higher education. A signal of institutional commitment to faculty diversity often includes the … hiring of an executive level chief diversity officer (CDO). To examine the effects of a CDO in a broad panel data context, we … diversity for underrepresented racial/ethnic minority groups is affected by the hiring of an executive level diversity officer …
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Threats to Central Bank Independence : High-Frequency Identification with Twitter
Bianchi, Francesco - 2019
This paper presents market-based evidence that President Trump influences expectations about monetary policy. We use tick-by-tick fed funds futures data and a collection of Trump tweets criticizing the conduct of monetary policy and consistently advocating that the Fed lower interest rates....
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Is Bitcoin a Real Currency? An Economic Appraisal
Yermack, David - 2013
A bona fide currency functions as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account, but bitcoin largely fails to satisfy these criteria. Bitcoin has achieved only scant consumer transaction volume, with an average well below one daily transaction for the few merchants who accept it....
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The Geographic Spread of Covid-19 Correlates with the Structure of Social Networks as Measured by Facebook
Kuchler, Theresa - 2020
We use aggregated data from Facebook to show that COVID-19 was more likely to spread between regions with stronger social network connections. Areas with more social ties to two early COVID-19 “hotspots” (Westchester County, NY, in the U.S. and Lodi province in Italy) generally had more...
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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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What Can We Learn from Euro-Dollar Tweets?
Gholampour, Vahid - 2017
We use 633 days of tweets about the Euro/dollar exchange rate to determine their information content and the profitability of trading based on Twitter Sentiment. We develop a detailed lexicon used by FX traders to translate verbal tweets into positive, negative and neutral opinions. The...
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Fake News and Advertising on Social Media : A Study of the Anti-Vaccination Movement
Chiou, Lesley - 2018
Online sources sometimes publish information that is false or intentionally misleading. We study the role of social networks and advertising on social networks in the dissemination of false news stories about childhood vaccines. We document that anti-vaccine Facebook groups disseminate false...
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Fintech and Household Resilience to Shocks : Evidence from Digital Loans in Kenya
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2019
Developing country lenders are taking advantage of fintech tools to create fully digital loans on mobile phones. Using administrative and survey data, we study the take up and impacts of one of the most popular digital loan products in the world, M-Shwari in Kenya. While 34% of those eligible...
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The Welfare Effects of Social Media
Allcott, Hunt - 2019
The rise of social media has provoked both optimism about potential societal benefits and concern about harms such as addiction, depression, and political polarization. In a randomized experiment, we find that deactivating Facebook for the four weeks before the 2018 US midterm election (i)...
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Trends in the Diffusion of Misinformation on Social Media
Allcott, Hunt - 2019
In recent years, there has been widespread concern that misinformation on social media is damaging societies and democratic institutions. In response, social media platforms have announced actions to limit the spread of false content. We measure trends in the diffusion of content from 569 fake...
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