Empirics of the identification of social interactions; an evaluation of the approaches and their results

Journal of Economic Surveys

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 193-228

  Soetevent, Adriaan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Experiments; Identification; Neighborhood effects; Social interactions; Social multiplier

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SOCIAL INDICATOR;

EID: 33645300337     PISSN: 09500804     EISSN: 14676419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0950-0804.2006.00280.x     Document Type: Article

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