Die heutige Lebenswelt junger Erwachsener ist längst von verschiedenen Medien durchdrungen, ist meditisiert. Gerade Soziale Onlinenetzwerke wie Facebook sind fester Bestandteil der alltäglichen Kommunikation von Jugendlichen. Was bedeutet es für die Freundschaft, wenn Jugendliche alle...

This paper measures parents' beliefs about school and peer quality, how information about each affects school choices, and how social interactions mediate these effects. Parents underestimate school quality and overestimate peer quality. Cross-randomized school and peer quality information...

Political leaders make policy choices which are often hard to explain via institutions. We use the behavior of Colombian paramilitary groups as an environment to study non-institutional sources of variation in how public good provision and violence are combined to control populations. We...