How Widespread Are Social Network Effects? Evidence from the Early Twentieth-Century United States

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Tan, Hui Ren
• 署名单位: National University of Singapore
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/714518
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 187-237
• 关键词: economic outcomes; AGE; MIGRANTS; rise

摘要

How widespread are social network effects? To answer this, I introduce a page-based approach for identifying individuals living in close proximity and compare how the propensity to work in the same industry varies among worker pairs residing in the same versus different areas. Across the 70 largest cities in the early twentieth-century United States, those from the same area are more likely to work in the same industry. On average, the increase in propensity is around 14%-20% of the baseline mean. These effects also tend to be stronger among single women and migrants from the same country of origin.