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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…
When Celebrities Speak: A Nationwide Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia
Vivi Alatas, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Markus Mobius +2
Celebrity endorsements are often sought to influence public opinion. We ask whether celebrity endorsement per se has an effect beyond the fact that their statements are seen by man…
Seeing the forest for the trees? An investigation of network knowledge
Emily Breza, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi
This paper assesses the empirical content of one of the most prevalent assumptions in the economics of networks literature, namely the assumption that decision makers have full kno…
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,…