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Helliwell, John F. - 2010

This paper uses data from global and Canadian surveys data to estimate the powerful linkages between social connections, their related social identities, and subjective well-being. Our explanatory variables include several measures of the extent and frequency of use of social networks, combined...

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The Impact of Social Networks on Labour Market Outcomes : New Evidence from Cape Breton

Khan, Adnan Q. - 2013

Debates centered on the role of social networks as a determinant of labour market outcomes have a long history in economics and sociology; however, determining causality remains a challenge. In this study we use information on random assignment to a unique intervention to identify the impact of...

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Connecting to Power : Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018

Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their … firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their productivity and to overcome certain market …

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Government Sponsored versus Private Venture Capital : Canadian Evidence

Brander, James A. - 2008

public policy objectives, including value-creation, innovation, and competition. A number of novel data-collection methods …, including value-creation, as measured by the likelihood and size of IPOs and M&As, and innovation, as measured by patents. It is …

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The Impact of Pharmaceutical Innovation on Premature Cancer Mortality in Canada, 2000-2011

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2015

Canada during the period 2000-2011, by investigating whether the cancer sites that experienced more pharmaceutical innovation …The premature cancer mortality rate has been declining in Canada, but there has been considerable variation in the rate … of decline across cancer sites. I analyze the effect that pharmaceutical innovation had on premature cancer mortality in …

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Grilichesian Breakthroughs : Inventions of Methods of Inventing and Firm Entry in Nanotechnology

Darby, Michael R. - 2003

enabling discovery for nanotechnology. Nanotech publishing and patenting has grown phenomenally. Over half of nanotech authors … nanotechnology where and when scientists are publishing breakthrough academic articles. A high average education level is also … similar process appears to have started in nanotechnology …

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The Production and Consumption of Social Media

Filippas, Apostolos; Horton, John J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We model social media as collections of users producing and consuming content. Users value consuming content, but doing so uses up their scarce attention, and hence they prefer content produced by more able users. Users also value receiving attention, creating the incentive to attract an...

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The International Transmission of Local Economic Shocks Through Migrant Networks

Caballero, Maria Ésther; Cadena, Brian C.; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using newly validated data on geographic migration networks, we study how labor demand shocks in the United States propagate across the border with Mexico. We show that the large exogenous decline in US employment brought about by the Great Recession affected demographic and economic outcomes in...

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Circles of Trust : Rival Information in Social Networks

Persson, Petra; Roketskiy, Nikita; Lee, Samuel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We analyze the diffusion of rival information in a social network. In our model, rational agents can share information sequentially, unconstrained by an exogenous protocol or timing. We show how to compute the set of eventually informed agents for any network, and show that it is essentially...

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Misinformation : Strategic Sharing, Homophily, and Endogenous Echo Chambers

Acemoglu, Daron; Ozdaglar, Asuman E.; Siderius, James - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We present a model of online content sharing where agents sequentially observe an article and must decide whether to share it with others. The article may contain misinformation, but at a cost, agents can fact-check it to determine whether its content is entirely accurate. While agents derive...

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