Jochmans Lab

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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2021

A coherent approach to analysing heterogeneity in network data

The overarching goal of this project is to develop a coherent set of econometric methods to deal with unobserved heterogeneity in the analysis of social interactions between agents. Such heterogeneity is well recognized to be important. It is often of great interest to document the degree of heterogeneity, evaluate its impact, and uncover the existence and form of any complementarities that may exist between agents. With the growing availability of network data, questions of this kind are increasingly being asked in applied work. The development of appropriate econometric tools to answer them has, however, not followed suit. If anything, recent theoretical work has pointed at substantial…

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