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Learning, Complementarities, and Asynchronous Use of Technology
Jovanovic, Boyan - 1997
a quality upgrade one of these inputs requires a period of learning before it can be used effectively, then in general … wasteful to tie up funds in the other inputs which will be underutilized until the date learning is over. We provide evidence …
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Learning by Viewing? Social Learning, Regulatory Disclosure, and Firm Productivity in Shale Gas
Fetter, T. Robert - 2018
represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas …
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Directed Attention and Nonparametric Learning
Dew-Becker, Ian - 2017
, endogenous learning here eliminates that effect …
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Bayesian Learning in Social Networks
Acemoglu, Daron - 2008
We study the perfect Bayesian equilibrium of a model of learning over a general social network. Each individual … characterize the conditions under which there will be asymptotic learning -- that is, the conditions under which, as the social … unbounded (meaning that the implied likelihood ratios are unbounded), there will be asymptotic learning as long as there is some …
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Social Interactions, Mechanisms, and Equilibrium : Evidence from a Model of Study Time and Academic Achievement
Conley, Timothy - 2015
We develop and estimate a model of student study time on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time...
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Social Connectedness in Urban Areas
Bailey, Michael - 2019
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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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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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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Homophily, Group Size, and the Diffusion of Political Information in Social Networks : Evidence from Twitter
Halberstam, Yosh - 2014
In this paper, we investigate political communications in social networks characterized both by homophily-a tendency to associate with similar individuals-and group size. To generate testable hypotheses, we develop a simple theory of information diffusion in social networks with homophily and...
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Competitive Job Seekers : When Sharing Less Leaves Firms at a Loss
Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study how job-seekers share information about jobs within their social network, and its implications for firms. We randomly increase the amount of competition for a job and find that job-seekers are: (i) less likely to share information about the job with their peers; and (ii) choose to...
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