Международный научный семинар ФЭН с участием профессора Куок-Анх До, Институт политических исследований, Франция

27 мая в 15:10  на Шаболовке в рамках серии международных научных семинаров Факультета экономических наук состоится выступление профессора  Куок-Анх До , Институт политических исследований, Франция, с темой доклада: 

Friendship Networks and Political Opinions: A Natural Experiment among Future French Politicians (with Yann Algan, Nicolo Dalvit, Alexis Le Chapelain and Yves Zenou)

 Аннотация :

We study how friendship shapes students’ political opinions in a natural experiment. We use the indicator whether two students were exogenously assigned to a short-term “integration group”, unrelated to scholar activities and dissolved before the school year, as instrumental variable for their friendship, to estimate the effect of friendship on pairwise political opinion outcomes in dyadic regressions. After six months, friendship causes a reduction of differences in opinions by one quarter of the mean difference. It likely works through a homophily-enforced mechanism, by which friendship causes politically-similar students to join political associations together, which reinforces their political similarity. The effect is strong among initially similar pairs, but absent in dissimilar pairs. Friendship affects opinion gaps by reducing divergence, therefore polarization and extremism, without forcing individuals’ views to converge. Network characteristics also matter to the friendship effect.

 
Место проведения мероприятия:  ул. Шаболовка 26, ком. 3211

Рабочий язык мероприятия:  английский

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