Social Networks Working Group at Yale

Members:
Jason Fletcher (Public Health), Marissa King (SOM), Emily Erikson (Sociology), Jennifer Flashman (Sociology), Olga Yakusheva (Public Health), Yuxiu Zhang (Public Health), Ach Adhvaryu (Public Health), and Hrag Balian (Sociology)


Spring 2012 Events

January 27, 2012
CIQLE Workshop (Sociology)
Jennifer Flashman
Thick as Thieves: The Making and Breaking of Adolescent Friendships
210 Prospect Street, Room 203
Fridays, 2:00-4:00 PM

January 31, 2012
OB Seminar Series (SOM)
Matthew Salganik
Wiki surveys: Open and quantifiable social data collection
11:30 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Horchow Seminar Room of 56 Hillhouse Ave

February 3, 2012
CIQLE Workshop (Sociology)
Emily Erikson
The Focalization of Networks Contents in Times of Uncertainty
210 Prospect Street, Room 203
Fridays, 2:00-4:00 PM

February 8, 2012
SOM Seminar
Emily Breza, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer Effects and Loan Repayment: Evidence from the Krishna Default Crisis
11:30 a.m. - 12:50 p.m.
Yale School of Management
Room A48

February 9, 2012
Yale School of Public Health
James Holland Jones, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
"Contact Networks, Models of Infectious Disease, and Epidemic Simulation"
12:00 PM LEPH 115

Feb 15th, 2012
Yale School of Public Health
Xi Chen, Cornell University.
“Identification of Stigma Behavior through Social Networks: Blood Plasma Donation, Peer Effects and Status Seeking”
4-5:30p, LEPH. 216

February 27, 2012
Economics
Berk Ozler
The World Bank
"Designing Experiments to Measure Spillover and Threshold Effects".
4:00-5:30pm
28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106

Feb 29th, 2012
Yale School of Public Health
Francesco Moscone, Brunel University
"Social Interactions in Patients' Hospital Choice: Evidence from Italy"
4-5:30p, LEPH. 216

April 3, 2012
Sociology Seminar
Nicholas Christakis
Social Networks and Human Evolution
12:00-1:20
210 Prospect, Room 203

April 6, 2012
SOM Seminar
Sanjeev Goyal
TBA
11:30 a.m. - 12:50 p.m.
Yale School of Management
Room A46

April 10, 2012
OB Seminar Series (SOM)
Jonah Berger
TBA
Horchow Seminar Room of 56 Hillhouse Ave

April 13, 2012
CIQLE Workshop (Sociology)
Damon Centola
TBA
210 Prospect Street, Room 203
Fridays, 2:00-4:00 PM

April 17, 2012
Social Networks Working Group
Matthew Salganik
Princeton University
Generalized network scale-up method for estimating the sizes of hard-to-count groups: Evidence from Brazil and Rwanda
12-1:30 PM

May 1, 2012
Social Networks Group/Sociology Department
Paolo Parigi
From Networks to Parties During the Era of Andrew Jackson (1820-1840)
2pm-4pm,
Room 208, 493 College St


May 3, 2012
Labor and Public Economics Workshop
Kelly Bedard University of California
"Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives?"
4:10-5:40pm
28 Hillhouse Ave., Room 106