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Credibly identifying social effects : accounting for network formation and measurement error

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Advani, Arun and Malde, Bansi (2018) Credibly identifying social effects : accounting for network formation and measurement error. Journal of Economic Surveys, 32 (4). doi:10.1111/joes.12256 ISSN 0950-0804.

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Abstract

Understanding whether and how connections between agents (networks) such as declared friendships in classrooms, transactions between firms, and extended family connections, influence their socio-economic outcomes has been a growing area of research within economics. Early methods developed to identify these social effects assumed that networks had formed exogenously, and were perfectly observed, both of which are unlikely to hold in practice. A more recent literature, both within economics and in other disciplines, develops methods that relax these assumptions. This paper reviews that literature. It starts by providing a general econometric framework for linear models of social effects, and illustrates how network endogeneity and missing data on the network complicate identification of social effects. Thereafter, it discusses methods for overcoming the problems caused by endogenous formation of networks. Finally, it outlines the stark consequences of missing data on measures of the network, and regression parameters, before describing potential solutions.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Social networks -- Economic aspects -- Mathematical models, Econometrics
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Economic Surveys
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
ISSN: 0950-0804
Official Date: September 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
September 2018Published
3 January 2018Available
12 November 2017Accepted
Volume: 32
Number: 4
Number of Pages: 29
DOI: 10.1111/joes.12256
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 12 January 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access: 12 January 2018
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
ES/I03685X/1ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, University of Southamptonhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000613
ES/K00123X/1[ESRC] Economic and Social Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000269

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