Social data in digital form—including user-generated content, expressed or implicit relations
between people, and behavioral traces—are at the core of popular applications and …

Résumé Cet article présente un aperçu des recherches dans le domaine de la fécondité
réalisées dans les sociétés dites avancées, c'est-à-dire les sociétés dans lesquelles le …

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Emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, leading people to
experience the same emotions without their awareness. Emotional contagion is well …

We show how data from online social networking services can help researchers better
understand the effects of social interactions on economic decision making. We combine …

Background The prevalence of obesity has increased substantially over the past 30 years.
We performed a quantitative analysis of the nature and extent of the person-to-person …

Complex systems abound in public health. Complex systems are made up of heterogeneous
elements that interact with one another, have emergent properties that are not explained by …

Obesity during childhood and adolescence is a growing problem in the United States,
Canada, and around the world that leads to significant physical, psychological, and social …

Networks are ubiquitous in science and have become a focal point for discussion in
everyday life. Formal statistical models for the analysis of network data have emerged as a …

We study how health behaviors are shaped through family spillovers. We leverage
administrative data to identify the effects of health shocks on family members' consumption …