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Neighbourhood turnover and teenage attainment
Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - 2014
's education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of … auxiliary findings based on survey data, suggest that neighbourhood turnover damages education through the disruption of local … importance of neighbourhood stability. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child …
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Housing and neighborhoods and a new national household panel
Quillian, Lincoln; Ludwig, Jens - In: Journal of economic and social measurement 40 (2015) 1/4, pp. 309-340
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Neighborhood Social Capital and Social Learning for Experience Attributes of Products
Lee, Jae Young - 2015
Social learning can occur when information is transferred from existing customers to potential customers. It is especially important when the information that is conveyed pertains to experience attributes, i.e., attributes of products that cannot be fully verified prior to the first purchase....
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Neighbourhood turnover and teenage attainment
Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393555
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Strong ties in a small world
Leij, Marco van der; Goyal, Sanjeev - 2006
In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' 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 weak ties...
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Will Facebook save or destroy social capital? : an empirical investigation into the effect of online interactions on trust and networks
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2014
Studies in the social capital literature have documented two stylised facts: first, a decline in measures of social participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has resulted in a steep rise in online social...
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Social Networks
de Martí, Joan - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
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Social Networks and Country-to-Country Transfer : Dense and Weak Ties in the Diffusion of Knowledge
Djelic, Marie-Laure - 2012
This article investigates the social network dimension in processes of cross-national transfer. The empirical focus is the conscious attempt to appropriate, in France after 1945, the American model of the large firm. Structural conditions-internal crisis and geopolitical dependence-created the...
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Disentangling the Relationship between Nonprofit and Social Capital : The Role of Social Cooperatives and Social Welfare Associations in the Development of Networks of Strong and W...
Degli Antoni, Giacomo; Sabatini, Fabio - 2013
We use a unique dataset to study how participation in two specific types of nonprofit organizations, i.e. social welfare associations and social cooperatives, affects individual social capital. A descriptive analysis shows that both the types of organization have a positive impact. The...
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Surname Diversity, Social Ties and Innovation
Posch, Max; Schulz, Jonathan; Henrich, Joseph - 2023
We study whether interactions between individuals with different skills, expertise and perspectives influenced innovation in U.S. counties from 1850 to 1940. We introduce and validate a new measure of social interactional diversity based on the distribution of surnames: lower surname diversity...
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