The study of social network effects has expanded in recent years, with an increased availability of data coupled with advances in theoretical and empirical modeling of these effects. These developments highlight the role of networks in influencing important aspects of individual behavior and inform a growing appreciation that behavior frequently targeted by policy can be greatly affected by the behavior of their friends and associates.
This academic conference will feature recent innovations in the literature of social networks presented by experts in this area. In addition to discussing issues related to the estimation of econometric models in the possible presence of network effects, the conference will feature several empirical investigations of social and economic issues important to social well-being.
This event is co-sponsored by Sciences Po and the Georgetown University Global Economic Challenges Network.
Event Recording
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Program
10:00 a.m. CET | Conference Opening
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. CET | Session 1, chaired by Jeanne Hagenbach (Sciences Po)
- Jean-Marc Robin (Sciences Po) with Junnan He (Sciences Po): "Ridge Estimation of Two-way Fixed Effect Regression"
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. CET | Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CET | Session 2, chaired by Jeanne Hagenbach (Sciences Po)
- Emeric Henry (Sciences Po) with Sergei Guriev (London Business School), Théo Marquis (Sciences Po), and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics): "Curtailing False News, Amplifying Truth"
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CET | Lunch
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CET | Session 3, chaired by Margherita Comola (Paris School of Economics)
- Matthew Jackson (Stanford University) with Raj Chetty (Harvard University): “Social Influences on Neighborhood Choices and Intergenerational Mobility''
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. CET | Break
3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. CET | Session 4, chaired by Margherita Comola (Paris School of Economics)
- Julien Grenet (Paris School of Economics) with Ghazala Azmat (Sciences Po), Yann Bramoullé (Aix-Marseille University), Aristide Houndetoungan (CY Cergy Paris University), Elise Huillery (Council of Economic Analysis), and Youssef Souidi (Paris School of Economics): “Friendship Networks and Social Diversity at School: Evidence from a Desegregation Program”
Featured Speakers
Julien Grenet is a senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics, and deputy director of the Institut des Politiques Publiques. His current research lies at the intersection of market design and the economics of education and employs various methodological approaches (quasi-experimental research design, structural estimation, fieldwork).
Emeric Henry is professor of economics and head of the Department of Economics at Sciences Po. He is also a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Henry is a microeconomist, using theory, experimental, and empirical methods. His research interests include economics of innovation, political economy, and the economics of social media. He regularly publishes in leading journals in economics and other fields.
Matthew O. Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. He previously worked at Northwestern University and the California Institute of Technology. Jackson's research interests include game theory, microeconomic theory, and the study of social and economic networks, on which he has published many articles and the books The Human Network (2019) and Social and Economic Networks (2010).
Jean-Marc Robin is a professor of economics at the Department of Economics of Sciences Po, Paris. He was previously a professor of economics at the University of Paris 1-PSE and at the University College London. His research interests are microeconometrics, labor microeconomics, and search and matching. With Fabien Postel-Vinay, he was awarded the 2006 Frisch Medal for their article "Equilibrium Wage Dispersion with Worker and Employer Heterogeneity," Econometrica, 70(6), November 2002, 2295-2350.
Chairs
Jeanne Hagenbach is director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and professor of economics at Sciences Po’s Department of Economics. Her research focuses on game theory and behavioral and experimental economics. In 2016, she was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal for her work on strategic communication. She is on the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies and associate editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations.
Margherita Comola is a professor of economics at the University Paris-Saclay, which she also directed from 2017 to 2021, and an affiliate professor at the Paris School of Economics. Her area of research lies at the crossroads of network economics and econometrics. In 2021, she was appointed junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and awarded a Fundamental Chair in Network Economics for five years to study the determinants of the formation of social ties from a behavioral point of view.