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Social Network Sites, Individual Social Capital and Happiness
Arampatzi, Efstratia; Burger, Martijn; Novik, Natallia - 2016
Can online social contacts replace the importance of real-life social connections in our pursuit of happiness? With the growing use of social network sites (SNSs), attention has been increasingly drawn to this topic. Our study empirically examines the effect of SNS use on happiness for different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124858
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Diffusion of Behavior in Network Games Orchestrated by Social Learning
Huang, Jia-Ping - 2014
The novelty of our model is to combine models of collective action on networks with models of social learning. Agents are connected according to an undirected graph, the social network, and have the choice between two actions: either to adopt a new behavior or technology or stay with the default...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061677
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Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance
Dahl, Gordon B.; Gielen, Anne C. - 2018
Does participation in a social assistance program by parents have spillovers on their children's own participation … exploit a 1993 policy reform in the Netherlands which tightened disability insurance (DI) criteria for existing claimants, and … use rich panel data to link parents to children's long-run outcomes. The key to our regression discontinuity design is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014033817
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Technology Adoption Subsidies : An Experiment with Managers
Aalbers, Rob; van der Heijden, Eline; Potters, Johannes … - 2008
We evaluate the impact of technology adoption subsidies on investment behavior in an individual choice experiment. In a laboratory setting professional managers are confronted with an intertemporal decision problem in which they have to decide whether or not to search for, and possibly adopt, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222903
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Social Networks and Labor Market Inequality between Ethnicities and Races
Toomet, Ott - 2012
This paper analyzes the relationship between unexplained racial/ethnic wage differentials on the one hand and social network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other hand. Our analysis is based on both U.S. and Estonian surveys, supplemented with Estonian telephone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098047
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Strong Ties in a Small World
van der Leij, Marco - 2006
In this paper we test the celebrated quot;Strength of weak tiesquot; theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, we reject the hypothesis that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734759
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A Social Network Analysis of Occupational Segregation
Buhai, Sebastian - 2006
This paper proposes a simple social network model of occupational segregation, generated by the existence of inbreeding bias among individuals of the same social group. If network referrals are important in getting a job, then expected inbreeding bias in the social structure results in different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780574
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Emergent Hypercongestion in Vickrey Bottleneck Networks
Frascaria, Dario; Olver, Neil; Verhoef, Erik - 2020
Hypercongestion - the phenomenon that higher traffic densities can reduce throughput - is well understood at the link level, but has also been observed in a macroscopic form at the level of traffic networks; for instance, in morning rush-hour traffic into a downtown core. In this paper, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014102451
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Trade-Offs between Different Early Childhood Interventions : Evidence from Ecuador
Rosero, Jose; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011
children and mothers in Ecuador. We find that home visits are beneficial for children's cognitive outcomes and health and for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179423
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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling : A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis
de Haan, Monique - 2008
This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent version of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We start with making no assumptions and then add...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047426