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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Alessandra Fogli - FED Minneapolis
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Germs, Social Networks and Growth</
 strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Abstract:</p><p style="text-alig
 n: justify;">Does the pattern of social connections between individuals mat
 ter for macroeconomic outcomes? If so, how does this effect operate and how
  large is it? Using network analysis tools, we explore how different social
  network structures affect technology diffusion and thereby a country’s rat
 e of technological progress. The network model also explains why societies 
 with a high prevalence of contagious disease might evolve toward growth-inh
 ibiting social institutions and how small initial differences can produce l
 arge divergence in incomes. Empirical work uses differences in the prevalen
 ce of diseases spread by human contact and the prevalence of other diseases
  as an instrument to identify the effect of social structure on technology 
 diffusion.</p><p> </p>
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