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Interacting Regional Policies in Containing a Disease
Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Matthew O. Jackson +1
Regional quarantine policies, in which a portion of a population surrounding infections are locked down, are an important tool to contain disease. However, jurisdictional governmen…
Learning through the Grapevine: The Impact of Noise and the Breadth and Depth of Social Networks
Matthew O. Jackson, Suraj Malladi, David McAdams
We examine how well people learn when information is noisily relayed from person to person; and we study how communication platforms can improve learning without censoring or fact-…
A Typology of Social Capital and Associated Network Measures
Matthew O. Jackson
I provide a typology of social capital, breaking it down into seven more fundamental forms of capital: information capital, brokerage capital, coordination and leadership capital,…
Behavioral Communities and the Atomic Structure of Networks
Matthew O. Jackson, Evan C. Storms
When people prefer to coordinate their behaviors with their friends -- e.g., choosing whether to adopt a new technology, to protest against a government, to attend university -- di…
A Network Formation Model Based on Subgraphs
Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Matthew O. Jackson
We develop a new class of random graph models for the statistical estimation of network formation -- subgraph generated models (SUGMs). Various subgraphs -- e.g., links, triangles,…
Networks: An Economic Perspective
Matthew O. Jackson, Brian W. Rogers, Yves Zenou
We discuss social network analysis from the perspective of economics. We organize the presentaion around the theme of externalities: the effects that one's behavior has on others'…