An innovative model describing the convergence of technology use at the micro level is introduced. ICT (information and communication technology) ownership, measured as the number of smartphones within a household, depends upon socioeconomic character- istics, such as income, education,...

The context of this article is a larger, ongoing postdoctoral research that looks into the relationship between opinion mining - more precisely sentiment analysis - and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that started in February 2022. The postdoctoral research aims to analyze political...

Social interactions determine many economic behaviors, but information on social ties does not exist in most publicly available and widely used datasets. We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between...