We evaluate the empirical evidence interrogating the question of whether social media
erodes social cohesion. We look at how networks, information exchange, and norms operate …

Social capital—the strength of an individual's social network and community—has been
identified as a potential determinant of outcomes ranging from education to health …

After the run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), US regional banks entered a period of significant
distress. We quantify social media's role in this distress using comprehensive Twitter data …

We analyze data from approximately 7,800 school districts to describe variation in pandemic-
related learning losses among communities and student subgroups. We attempt to …

There is an increasingly prevalent expectation in contemporary society that employees be
passionate for their work. Here, we suggest that employers and employees can have …

A long-standing expectation is that large, dense and cosmopolitan areas support
socioeconomic mixing and exposure among diverse individuals,,,,–. Assessing this …

What do recent advances in economic geography teach us about the spatial distribution of
economic activity? We show that the equilibrium distribution of economic activity can be …

Children born into poverty in rural America achieve higher average income levels as adults
than their urban peers. As economic opportunity tends to be more abundant in cities, this" …

This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and
universities across the United States. About 50% of recent college graduates are living and …

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 …