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Evaluating Trust and Trustworthiness in Social Groups and Networks

O'Higgins, Niall - 2018

Trust and trustworthiness are important components of social capital and much attention has been devoted to their correct evaluation. In this paper, we argue that individuals' trust and trustworthiness are strongly dependent on the level of trust and trustworthiness of the social group in which...

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Civility and Trust in Social Media

Antoci, Angelo - 2018

Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising phenomenon of online incivility, which has made the environment of social networking sites hostile...

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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network

Inci, Eren - 2012

We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...

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Gendered Entrepreneurship Networks

Markussen, Simen - 2016

In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship …

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Social Media as a Recruitment and Data Collection Tool : Experimental Evidence on the Relative Effectiveness of Web Surveys and Chatbots

Beam, Emily - 2022

Online technologies enable lower-cost, rapid data collection, but concerns about access and data quality impede their use in global research. I conduct a randomized experiment in the Philippines to test the effectiveness of web-form and chatbot surveys of K 12 teachers recruited through social...

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Viral Altruism? Generosity and Social Contagion in Online Networks

Lacetera, Nicola - 2015

How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates donations while broadcasting donors' activities to their contacts. We find that broadcasting is...

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Broadband Internet and Social Capital

Geraci, Andrea - 2018

We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that broadband access has long depended on customers' position in the voice telecommunication infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The...

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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital : Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2011

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...

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Social Networks

Martí, Joan de - 2009

We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...

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Social Media Charity Campaigns and Pro-Social Behaviour. Evidence from the Ice Bucket Challenge

Fazio, Andrea; Reggiani, Tommaso; Scervini, Francesco - 2023

Social media use plays an important role in shaping individuals' social attitudes and economic behaviours. One of the first well-known examples of social media campaigns is the Ice Bucket Challenge (IBC), a charity campaign that went viral on social media networks in August 2014, aiming to...

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