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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480622
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The Big Three and Board Gender Diversity : The Effectiveness of Shareholder Voice
Gormley, Todd A.; Gupta, Vishal K.; Matsa, David A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards … they had in 2016. Firms increased diversity by identifying candidates beyond managers' existing networks and by placing …-based governance changes and the important impact of investor buy-in in increasing corporate-leadership diversity …
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480253
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The Digital Welfare of Nations : New Measures of Welfare Gains and Inequality
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Collis, Avinash; Liaqat, Asad; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Digital goods can generate large benefits for consumers, but these benefits are largely unmeasured in the national accounts, including GDP and productivity. In this paper, we measure welfare gains from 10 popular digital goods across 13 countries by conducting large-scale incentivized online...
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When Product Markets Become Collective Traps : The Case of Social Media
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Handel, Benjamin R.; Jiménez … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Individuals might experience negative utility from not consuming a popular product. For example, being inactive on social media can lead to social exclusion or not owning luxury brands can be associated with having a low social status. We show that, in the presence of such spillovers to...
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Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents and the Vote for Radical Parties : Analyzing Text from Twitter
Giavazzi, Francesco - 2020
We study the role of perceived threats from cultural diversity induced by terrorist attacks and a salient criminal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479348
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479369
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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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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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