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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,…
Revealing information -- or not -- in a social network of traders
Patrick Allmis, Paolo Pin, Fernando Vega Redondo
We build upon a simple micro-founded model of asset trading proposed by Kyle (1985) to study under what conditions a trader who is privately informed of the future return of the as…
Cohesion, Ideology, and Tolerance
Patrick Allmis
Agents with different ideologies often form alliances to achieve their goals. Paradoxically, ideologically similar agents are often opponents. In this paper, ideologically heteroge…
A Model of Polarization on Social Media
Patrick Allmis, Luca Paolo Merlino
We develop a model of social media in which users produce different types of content and choose whom to follow. Even when abstracting from algorithmic bias, linking costs shape net…