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You are who your friends are : an experiment on trust and homophily in friendship networks
Kataria, Mitesh; Winter, Fabian - 2013
, and whether this is anticipated by outsiders. We develop a simple model of bayesian learning in trust games and test the … derived hypotheses in a controlled laboratory environment. In the experiment, two trustees sequentially play a trust game with …
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Does Guanxi Matter to Nonfarm Employment?
Zhang, Xiaobo; Li, Guo - 2012
Chinese farmers rely increasingly on nonfarm activities to enhance their incomes. Previous studies identify human capital as a key factor in the selection of workers in the rural nonfarm sector, but these studies ignore the role of social networks, i.e., guanxi. Using data from a detailed...
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The Friendship Paradox and Systematic Biases in Perceptions and Social Norms
Jackson, Matthew O. - 2017
The 'friendship paradox' (Feld1991) refers to the fact that, on average, people have strictly fewer friends than their friends have. I show that this over-sampling of the most popular people amplifies behaviors that involve complementarities. People with more friends experience greater...
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Education transmission and network formation
Boucher, Vincent; Del Bello, Carlo Leone; Panebianco, … - 2021
We propose a model of intergenerational transmission of education wherein children belong to either highly educated or low-educated families. Children choose the intensity of their social activities while parents decide how much educational effort to exert. Using data on adolescents in the...
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Peer Effects in UK Adolescent Substance Use : Never Mind the Classmates?
McVicar, Duncan; Polanski, Arnold - 2012
This paper estimates peer influences on the alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use of a school based sample of UK 15 year olds. We present evidence of large, positive and statistically significant peer effects in all three behaviours when classmates are taken as the reference group. When friends are...
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Weight-Related Behavior Among Adolescents : The Role of Peer Effects
Ali, Mir M.; Amialchuk, Aliaksandr; Heiland, Frank - 2011
Purpose: To investigate whether social interactions in friendship networks influence the following weight-related behaviors of adolescents: exercising regularly, playing an active sport, hours of TV/Video viewing, sleeping six or fewer hours, eating breakfast on weekdays, frequency of eating at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181919
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Social Network and Weight Misperception Among Adolescents
Ali, Mir M.; Amialchuk, Aliaksandr; Renna, Francesco - 2011
It is recognized that public health interventions targeted towards changing lifestyle behaviors to reduce overweight is a considerable challenge. It is important that individuals recognize their overweight status to be a health risk in order for an effective change in lifestyle behaviors to...
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The Social Scar of the Pandemic : Impacts of COVID-19 Exposure on Interpersonal Trust
Fang, Guanfu; Zhu, Ying - 2022
pandemic on interpersonal trust in China. Using a nationally representative panel survey, we find that COVID-19 exposure led to … a decrease in the levels of generalized trust. We also show that the change in interpersonal trust varied across domains …. Specifically, COIVD-19 exposure significantly decreased trust in parents, neighbors, and local government officials, but had small …
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Bowling Alone, Drinking Together
Buonanno, Paolo; Vanin, Paolo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2007
Alcohol consumption may be associated to a rich social life, but its abuse might be related to a poor social life. This paper investigates whether alcohol consumption is a socially enjoyed good (a complement of social relations) or a substitute for social relations. In particular, it explores...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619245
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Social network and weight misperception among adolescents
Ali, Mir M.; Amialchuk, Aliaksandr; Renna, Francesco - In: Southern economic journal 77 (2011) 4, pp. 827-842
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