A natural experiment of social network formation and dynamics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 6595-6600

  Phan, Tuan Q ^a   Airoldi, Edoardo M ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Natural disasters; Natural experiment; Propensity score matching; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRIENDSHIP; HUMAN; HURRICANE; NATURAL DISASTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DYNAMICS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; DISASTER; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNET; SOCIAL MEDIA; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

CYCLONIC STORMS; DISASTERS; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84930225728     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404770112     Document Type: Article

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