A large and growing share of the American public turns to Facebook for news. On this
platform, reports about crime increasingly come directly from law enforcement agencies …

The introduction of the Internet in the 2000s was believed to be an effective solution for
helping rural economies but previous studies found mixed results. Following the prevailing …

Large-scale human social network structure is typically inferred from digital trace samples of
online social media platforms or mobile communication data. Instead, here we investigate …

We study a coordination game among agents in a network. The agents choose whether to
take action (eg adopting a new technology) in an uncertain environment that yields …

The hollowing of civil society has threatened effective implementation of scientific solutions
to pressing public challenges—which often depend on cultivating pro-social orientations …

The phenomenon of vaccine hesitancy behavior has gained ground over the last three
decades, jeopardizing the maintenance of herd immunity. This behavior tends to cluster …

Over the past three decades, scholars have studied technology adoption and its
determinants in many contexts. Nevertheless, this literature has remained silent in …

The lack of large-scale data revealing the interactions among firms has constrained
empirical studies. Utilizing relational web data has remained unexplored as a remedy for …

Corruption is a social plague: gains accrue to small groups, while its costs are borne by
everyone. Significant variation in its level between and within countries suggests a …

We present a latent characteristic in socio-spatial networks, hazard-exposure heterophily, to
capture the extent to which populations with dissimilar hazard exposure could assist each …