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Blog posts on networks

2022

  • Social networks in rural India (Dec 24)
  • The friendship paradox (Nov 16)
  • Homophily and the strength of moderate ties (Sep 16)
  • Truth-seekers and ideologues (Jul 18)
  • Gender sorting among economists (Jun 3)
  • Tolerance and compromise in social networks (Apr 1)
  • Assortativity and correlation coefficients (Feb 17)

2021

  • Snowball sampling bias in program evaluation (Sep 4)
  • Female representation and collaboration at the NBER (Mar 29)
  • Dyadic dependence (Feb 10)
  • Assortative mixing (Feb 2)

2020

  • Auctioning vaccines (Dec 17)
  • Polarized beliefs in social networks (Oct 29)
  • Research funding and collaboration (Oct 12)
  • Estimating research field similarities (May 30)
  • Generating random graphs with communities (Apr 7)
  • Triadic closure at the NBER (Mar 4)
  • Degree-preserving randomisation (Feb 17)
  • Centrality rankings with noisy edge sets (Feb 14)
  • motuwp is now an R package (Feb 8)
  • NBER (co-)authorships (Feb 7)
  • DeGroot learning in social networks (Jan 27)

2019

  • How central is Grand Central Terminal? (Nov 14)
  • Climate change and transport planning (Nov 6)
  • Information gerrymandering (Sep 14)
  • Sampling the Motu coauthorship network (Jul 30)
  • College degrees in the US: Community detection (Jul 27)
  • College degrees in the US: Similarity measures (Jul 14)
  • Relatedness, complexity and local growth (Apr 2)

2018

  • Coauthorship networks at Motu (Jun 21)
  • Habitat choices of first-generation Pokémon (Mar 1)

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