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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Alessandra Fogli - FED Minneapolis
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Germs, Social Networks and Growth\nAbstract:\nDoes the pattern of social co
 nnections between individuals matter 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 diff
 usion and thereby a country’s rate of technological progress. The network m
 odel also explains why societies with a high prevalence of contagious disea
 se might evolve toward growth-inhibiting social institutions and how small 
 initial differences can produce large divergence in incomes. Empirical work
  uses differences in the prevalence of diseases spread by human contact and
  the prevalence of other diseases as an instrument to identify the effect o
 f social structure on technology diffusion.\n\n\n \n
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