The spatiotemporal evolution of provincial carbon emission correlation and its driving mechanism is of great importance for collaborative emission reduction. Based on the panel data at the provincial level in China from 2000 to 2018, this paper establishes a global carbon emission association...

We study both endogenous and exogenous peer effects in worker productivity using an explicit network approach. We apply this method to data from an in-house call center of a multinational mobile network operator that include detailed information on individual performance. We find that a 10%...

Survivor testimonies link survival in deadly POW camps, Gulags, and Nazi concentration camps to the formation of close friendships with other prisoners. We provide statistical evidence consistent with these fundamentally selective testimonies. We study the survival of the 140 thousand Jews who...

We examine the efficacy of affirmative action at universities whose value depends on peer and alumni networks. We study an elite Brazilian university that adopted race- and income-based affirmative action at a large scale. Using employer-employee data, we show that a key benefit of attending the...

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...

Most prior research on political patronage investigates its direct effect on power distribution and aggregate economic outputs, but less is known about the outcome of politicians’ patron-client networks at corporate level. This study investigates the causal impact of politicians’...

Agency theory has played a significant role in identifying drivers of offshore information system (IS) project success. Consequently, the role of relational factors in driving project success has been overlooked in this literature. In this paper, we integrate the social embeddedness perspective...

In ride-hailing markets, the spatial mismatch between supply and demand characterizes one of the most fundamental operational bottlenecks. The voluntary customer search of drivers is oftentimes inadequate for narrowing the demand-supply gaps and falls short in responding timely to the dynamic...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between the social influence of a friend in a personal friend network in Facebook and the centrality of the friend in that network. In a large-scale experiment, we asked 206 volunteers to allow us access to their personal Facebook friend network. We...