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

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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.

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  • Hui Ren Tan, 2022. "How Widespread Are Social Network Effects? Evidence from the Early Twentieth-Century United States," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 40(1), pages 187-237.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jlabec:doi:10.1086/714518
    DOI: 10.1086/714518
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    1. David Card & Ciprian Domnisoru & Seth G. Sanders & Lowell Taylor & Victoria Udalova, 2022. "The Impact of Female Teachers on Female Students' Lifetime Well-Being," NBER Working Papers 30430, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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