作者：Alatas, Vivi; Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G.; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A.
作者单位：The World Bank; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Stanford University; Harvard University
摘要：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. The model generates qualitative predictions about how cross-village patterns of learning relate to network structure, which we show are borne out in the data. We apply our findings to a community-bas...
作者：Thaler, Richard H.
作者单位：University of Chicago
