Nature research paper: Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility
We construct the following sets of variables for each person in our analysis sample. We measured these variables on 28 May 2022.The data contain information on all friendship links between Facebook users. We focus only on friendships within our analysis sample; that is, we exclude friendships with people aged below 25 years or above 44 years, people who live outside the United States or people who do not satisfy one of our other criteria for inclusion in the analysis sample.
Second, we estimate a gradient-boosted regression tree to predict these median household incomes using variables observed for all individuals in our sample, such as age, sex, language, relationship status, location information , college, donations, phone model price and mobile carrier, usage of Facebook on the Internet , and other variables related to Facebook usage listed in Supplementary TableFinally, individuals are assigned percentile ranks in the national SES distribution on the basis of...
The algorithm described above is one of many potential ways of combining a set of underlying proxies for SES into a single measure. To verify that our findings are not sensitive to the specific variables or algorithm used to predict SES, we show that our results are similar when we use a simple unweighted average of-scores of the underlying proxies or when we directly use ZIP code median household incomes for all users, eschewing the prediction model and other proxies entirely .
Most of our analysis draws on the SES measure constructed as described in the previous subsection. We evaluate the accuracy of this SES measure by correlating the share of households with above-median income within each ZIP code from the ACS with the estimated share of Facebook users with above-median SES in our sample. The population-weighted correlation between our estimates of the share of high-SES individuals and the ACS estimates at the ZIP-code level is 0.88.
Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Recording gene expression order in DNA by CRISPR addition of retron barcodes - NatureRetro-Cascorder, a system for time-ordered recording of transcriptional output, uses retrons as a tag to mediate DNA barcode acquisition in a CRISPR array.
Read more »
Femtojoule femtosecond all-optical switching in lithium niobate nanophotonics - Nature PhotonicsResearchers exploit the quadratic nonlinearity of lithium niobate nanowaveguides and demonstrate cavity-free all-optical switching. Switching energies down to 80 fJ, switching times down to ~46 fs and energy–time products of 3.7 × 10−27 J s are shown.
Read more »
More Mojo: Denver Needs to Become a City Within a Nature PreserveA suggestion for how the Mile High City can rise again.
Read more »
Nature Impacts Children’s Lung Function, Study SuggestsNew research shows green spaces could lead to better lung function in children.
Read more »
Fetterman harnesses power of social media in Pennsylvania Senate campaignIn one of this year’s most competitive U.S. Senate races, the biggest moments aren't playing out on the campaign trail. They’re on social media.
Read more »
Opinion | Blaming social media for academia’s ruin misses a larger, darker truthMany academics are not 'captured by' Twitter; it is their 'safe space.' Their febrile shallowness is not 'Twitter-induced'; Twitter is a response to it.
Read more »