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Social networks and vaccination decisions
Rao, Neel; Möbius, Markus M.; Rosenblat, Tanya - 2007
We combine information on social networks with medical records and survey data in order to examine how friends affect one's decision to get vaccinated against the flu. The random assignment of undergraduates to residential halls at a large private university allows us to estimate how peer...
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Can Peers Improve Agricultural Productivity?
Songsermsawas, Tisorn; Baylis, Kathy; Chhatre, Ashwini; … - 2014
Productivity varies greatly among farmers and the source of that variation is not fully understood. Using a unique Indian household survey, we estimate peer effects on agricultural revenue. Results show that 60% of farmers' revenue is explained by peers. Input expenditures and land allocation to...
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An empirical model for strategic network formation
Christakis, Nicholas; Fowler, James; Imbens, Guido; … - 2010
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 a single randomly selected pair of agents has the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288387
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Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity
Olivetti, Claudia; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2013
This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is commonly included in economic models. The second,...
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Do as the neighbors do: the impact of social networks on immigrant employment
Andersson, Fredrik; Burgess, Simon M.; Lane, Julia - 2009
Substantial immigrant segregation in the United States, combined with the increase in the share of the U.S. foreign-born population, have led to great interest in the causes and consequences of immigrant concentration, including those related to the functioning of labor markets. This paper...
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Competition, group identity, and social networks in the workplace: Evidence from a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2011
Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assigned teammates affect an individual worker's behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme, and b) how such effects...
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A structural model of segregation in social networks
Mele, Angelo - 2010
In this paper, I develop and estimate a dynamic model of strategic network formation with heterogeneous agents. While existing models have multiple equilibria, I prove the existence of a unique stationary equilibrium, which characterizes the likelihood of observing a specific network in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288381
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Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence from firm level survey in India
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India's organized manufacturing in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807643
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Financial investments, information flows, and caste affiliation: Empirical evidence from India
Bönte, Werner; Filipiak, Ute - 2011
of financial instruments and investment behavior in India. The results of our empirical analysis, which is based on a …
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India and the Civil War in Sri Lanka: On the Failures of Regional Conflict Management in South Asia
Destradi, Sandra - 2010
The paper provides an assessment of India's role in the final years of the civil war in Sri Lanka (2003-2009). In … particular, it looks for explanations for India's inability to act as a conflict manager in its own region, which is in contrast … India's approach to the conflict, when in 2007 New Delhi began to rather explicitly support the Sri Lankan government - in …
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