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Yves Zenou

@yveszenou.bsky.social

Professor of Economics at Monash University and the Richard Snape Chair in Business and economics sites.google.com/site/yvesbzenou

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics@qjeharvard.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#QJE May 2026, #10, “Leveraging Virtual Contact and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony,” by Siddique (@absidd.bsky.social), Vlassopoulos, and Zenou (@yveszenou.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Leveraging Virtual Contact and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony*

Abstract. This article investigates whether virtual contact, initiated through a documentary film, can promote interethnic harmony. We carried out a cluste

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AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Forthcoming in the AER: "Friendship Networks and Political Opinions" by Yann Algan, Nicolò Dalvit, Quoc-Anh Do, Alexis Le Chapelain, and Yves Zenou.

Friendship Networks and Political Opinions

(Forthcoming Article) - We examine how social interactions and friendships shape students' political opinions in a natural experiment at Sciences Po, a leading French university specializing in social and political sciences. The quasi-random assignment of students into short-term integration groups before their academic curriculum reduces political opinion gaps and fosters friendship formation. Using same-group membership as an instrumental variable for friendship, we find that friendship reduces opinion differences by 40% of a standard deviation in the opinion gap. Our evidence supports a homophily-enforced mechanism: friendships form among initially politically similar students, leading them to join political associations together, reinforcing their similarity.

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AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Forthcoming in the AER: "Games on Multiplex Networks" by Yves Zenou and Junjie Zhou.

Games on Multiplex Networks

(Forthcoming Article) - We develop a simple multilayer network model in which agents allocate effort across layers with heterogeneous structures, subject to an aggregate effort constraint. Incentives are shaped by agents’ network positions within each layer, and equilibrium behavior reflects both within- and cross-layer interactions. We analyze how shocks propagate through the network and characterize optimal targeting interventions. Our results show that effective policy design must account for effort allocation across layers. We also demonstrate that predictions from monolayer models can diverge sharply from those of multilayer models, underscoring the importance of accounting for network complexity in both empirical and policy analyses.

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AMSE - Aix-Marseille School of Economics@amse-aixmarseille.fr · 2y ago

🎦 Economist Yves Zenou (Monash University) about his work on the impact of peers on the choices we make. Video 🇬🇧🇫🇷 ⤵️ #Scicomm @yveszenou.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr @cnrs-dr12.bsky.social @ehess-fr.bsky.social @centralemed.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOmZ...

Sous l'influence de nos proches ? Avec Yves Zenou

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AMSE - Aix-Marseille School of Economics@amse-aixmarseille.fr · 2y ago

"How do social interactions shape our behavior? 👥 Economists show the influence of 'leaders' 🌟, and the implications for public policy. Read it in #DialoguesEconomiques ⬇️

Nicholas A. Christakis@nachristakis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Recent data on immigrant criminality: Immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than US-born for 150 years. And, relative to the US-born, immigrants' incarceration rates have declined since 1960. Immigrants today are 60 percent less likely to be incarcerated. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap between Immigrants and the US-Born, 1870–2020

(December 2024) - We provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration ...

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