4 papers
Mobile but Miserable: Social comparison networks and social mobility
Patrick Allmis, Matthew Elliott, Christian Ghiglino +1
Although social mobility is widely viewed as desirable, we document an 'inverse-U' shaped relationship with well-being: mobility is positively associated with well-being when low,…
More connection, less community: network formation and local public goods provision
Alastair Langtry
This paper presents a model of network formation and public goods provision in local communities. Here, networks can sustain public good provision by spreading information about pe…
Why do elites extend property rights: unlocking investment and the switch to public goods
Alastair Langtry
This paper presents a new rationale for a self-interested economic elite voluntarily extending property rights. When agents make endogenous investment decisions, there is a commitm…
Network Threshold Games
Alastair Langtry, Sarah Taylor, Yifan Zhang
This paper proposes a new lens for studying threshold games played on networks when the thresholds are heterogeneous. These are games where agents have two possible actions, and pr…