4 papers
The Fragility of Social Learning with Noisy Messages
Matthew O. Jackson, Suraj Malladi, David McAdams
We examine how agents learn when information from original sources only reaches them after noisy relay. A receiver learns if and only if they have access to sufficiently many chain…
The friendship paradox: Causal evidence of its behavioral consequences
Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Matthew O. Jackson +2
We provide a first causal analysis of the behavioral consequences of the friendship paradox-the fact that people's friends in a network have more connections than average. We find…
Interactions across multiple games: cooperation, corruption, and organizational design
Jonathan Bendor, Lukas Bolte, Nicole Immorlica +1
Teamwork is vital in many settings, and it is socially beneficial for teams to cooperate in some situations (``good games'') and not in others (``bad games;'' e.g., those that allo…
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,…