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Description:: Social networks play a crucial role in developing economies. One of their most important functions is facilitating the flow of information, particularly about the efficacy of new technologies. This dissertation explores three aspects of this research agenda. First, I study how economists can estimate the structure of a social network...
Keyword:: uncertainty, social networks, risk aversion, penalized regression, and technology adoption
Subject:: Agriculture economics, Information science, and Economics
Creator:: Alidaee, Hossein
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_986939 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16610

Description:: This dissertation combines perspectives from social networks and teams research to advance understanding of team self-assembly. Across three substantive chapters, I explore team member search behaviors and invitation patterns in contexts where individuals exercise agency to select team members. First, I consider the search for team members in a social...
Keyword:: social networks, network search, network analysis, teams, collaboration, and team assembly
Subject:: Computer science and Communication
Creator:: Twyman, Marlon
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_682474 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14785

Description:: This study explores how the world of popular science helped forge a new civic culture during the tumultuous decades of the mid-eighteenth century. I trace the activities of a wide cast of characters in both England and America, revealing the contours of a tightly knit community of scientists, merchants, doctors,...
Keyword:: popular science, social networks, improvement, and British imperialism
Subject:: History
Creator:: Michael Benjamin Guenther
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/20/2018
Date Modified:: 09/20/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-05
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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