Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

We use unique data from over 600 Indonesian communities on what individuals know about the poverty status of others to study how network structure influences information aggregation. We develop a model of semi-Bayesian learning on networks, which we structurally estimate using within-village data. T...

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Main Authors: Alatas, Vivi, Banerjee, Abhijit, Chandrasekhar, Arun Gautham, Hanna, Rema N., Olken, Benjamin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108158
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9923-6088
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-4631