Using Gossips to Spread Information: Theory and Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Can we identify highly central individuals in a network without collecting network data, simply by asking community members? Can seeding information via such nominated individuals lead to significantly wider diffusion than via randomly chosen people, or even respected ones? In two separate large fie...

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Main Authors: Banerjee, A. (Author), Chandrasekhar, A.G (Author), Duflo, E. (Author), Jackson, M.O (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2019
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