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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American Economic Association
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108158 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9923-6088 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-4631 |