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The Standing Ovation Model

"Now this is a model that builds off the [inaudible] model it's just really an extension. But it can allow us to sort of think about threshold based models of participation and pure effects in a little more subtle ways. Why standing

2018-09-24T06:43:26+00:00

Peer Effects

"These sort of contagion phenomena that happened [inaudible] pure effects. That sometimes. The tail wags the dog. What do I mean by that. What I mean is that sometimes. The people at the end of distribution. The extremists. Are the ones that

2018-09-24T06:43:25+00:00

Schelling’s Segregation Model

"In 1971, the American economist Thomas Schelling created an agent-based model that might help explain why segregation is so difficult to combat. His model of segregation showed that even when individuals (or "agents") didn't mind being surrounded or living by agents of

2018-09-24T06:43:22+00:00