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Essays on Social Networks in Development Economics: Measurement, Learning, and Implications

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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...

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uncertainty, social networks, risk aversion, penalized regression, and technology adoption

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Agriculture economics, Information science, and Economics

Creator:

Alidaee, Hossein

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

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en

Date Uploaded:

05/31/2023

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2023-01-01

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Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_986939 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16610
Essays in Development Economics

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AbstractThis dissertation consists of three papers examining economic issues in developing countries. The first paper studies how export activity affects prices in domestic consumer markets. Using extensive, spatially disaggregated data from India’s rice markets and exploiting a natural experiment provided by India’s rice export restrictions during 2007-2011, I show that,...

Subject:

Agriculture economics and Economics

Creator:

Manjeer, Utsav

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

06/28/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15595 and etdadmin_upload_820489

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