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, summary network parameters (e.g., the degree distribution or transitivity index); and (iii) empirical models of strategic … network formation admitting interdependencies in preferences. Current research challenges and open questions are also …
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This paper presents and structurally estimates a model of endogenous network formation and legislative activity of … of Congress as exogenously given and instead embed it in a model of endogenous network formation useful for developing …
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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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We use anonymized and aggregated data from Facebook to explore the spatial structure of social networks in the New York metro area. We highlight the importance of transportation infrastructure in shaping urban social networks by showingthat travel time and travel costs are substantially stronger...
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social network connections. Areas with more social ties to two early COVID-19 "hotspots" (Westchester County, NY, in the U …
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We document that the recent house price experiences within an individual's social network affect her perceptions of the … anonymized social network information from Facebook with housing transaction data and a survey. We first show that in the survey …
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, members of the majority group have more network connections and are exposed to more information than the minority group. We … US elections in a social network of 2.2 million politically-engaged Twitter users. Consistent with the model, we find … that members of the majority group in each state-level network have more connections and are exposed to more tweets than …
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We study how job-seekers share information about jobs within their social network, and its implications for firms. We …
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In this note, we consider a broad class of network models where a large number of heterogeneous agents simultaneously …
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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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