The social connections that shape economic prospects

Noam Angrist and Bruce Sacerdote ()

Nature, 2022, vol. 608, issue 7921, 37-38

Abstract: Data on 21 billion Facebook connections reveal that a new measure of social capital — childhood friendships between people of high and low socio-economic status — is linked to economic mobility later in life.

Keywords: Sociology; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1038/d41586-022-01843-4

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