| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w27346 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 27346 |
| Information and the Acquisition of Social Network Connections | |
| Toman Barsbai; Victoria Licuanan; Andreas Steinmayr; Erwin Tiongson; Dean Yang | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-06-15 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | How do information interventions affect individual efforts to expand social networks? We study a randomized controlled trial of a program providing information on settling in the U.S. for new immigrants from the Philippines. Improved information leads new immigrants to acquire fewer new social network connections. Treated immigrants make 16-28 percent fewer new friends and acquaintances and are 65 percent less likely to receive support from organizations of fellow immigrants. The treatment has no effect on employment, wellbeing, or other outcomes. Consistent with a simple model, the treatment reduces social network links more in places likely to have lower costs of acquiring network links (those with more prior fellow immigrants). Information and social network links appear to be substitutes in this context: better-informed immigrants invest less in expanding their social networks upon arrival. Our results suggest that endogenous reductions in acquisition of social network connections can reduce the effectiveness of information interventions. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Economics of Information ; International Economics ; International Factor Mobility |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27346 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585019 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Toman Barsbai,Victoria Licuanan,Andreas Steinmayr,et al. Information and the Acquisition of Social Network Connections. 2020. |
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