Social Interactions, Resilience, and Access to Economic Opportunity: A Research Agenda for the Field of Computational Social Science

Theresa Kuchler and Johannes Stroebel

No 9606, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We argue that the increasing availability of digital trace data presents substantial opportunities for researchers and policy makers to better understand the importance of social networks and social interactions in fostering economic opportunity and resilience. We review recent research efforts that have studied these questions using data from a wide range of sources, including online social networking platform such as Facebook, call detail record data, and network data from payment systems. We also describe opportunities for expanding these research agendas by using other digital trace data, and discuss various promising paths to increase researcher access to the required data, which is often collected and owned by private corporations.

Date: 2022
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