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farmers are the most persuasive. Incorporating communication dynamics can enrich the literature on social learning. … agents to communicate with farmers, although social networks are known to be the most credible source of information about … new technologies. We conduct a large-scale field experiment on communication strategies in which extension workers are …
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-scale experiment to test these predictions among farmers in Western Kenya, and we fail to find support for either. However, in the same … this new technology. The core idea of the model is that not all information is reliable, and farmers are reluctant to …, transparent technologies to facilitate communication …
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This paper studies the causal impact of social ties and network structure on helping behavior in organizations. We introduce and experimentally study a game called the 'helping game,' where individuals unilaterally decide whether to incur a cost to help other team members when helping is a...
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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...
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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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We explore how participation in social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and Twitter affects the most economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the...
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Online social networks, such as Facebook, disclose an unprecedented volume of personal information amplifying the occasions for social comparisons, which can be a cause of frustration. We test the hypothesis that the use of social networking sites (SNS) increases social comparisons as proxied by...
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); internet-based communication seems to stimulate local offline communication (Storper and Venables, 2004). Social network sites … are major fields of online communication and "enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks" (boyd and … Ellison, 2007). Online social network (OSN) are large-scale networks and claimed to be supplemental forms of communication …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413616