Data and Code for: "Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade"
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Camilo Garcia Jimeno, Chicago Fed; Angel Iglesias Diaz, Penn Economics; Pinar Yildirim, The Wharton School
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Project Description
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This is the data and code accompanying the article "Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade"
Abstract:
How do social interactions shape collective action, and how are they mediated by networked information technologies? We answer these questions studying the Temperance Crusade, a wave of anti-liquor protest activity spreading across 29 states between 1873-1874. Relying on exogenous variation in net-work links generated by railroad accidents, we provide causal evidence of social interactions driving the diffusion of the movement, mediated by rail and telegraph information about neighboring activity. Local newspaper coverage of the Crusade was a key channel mediating these effects. Using an event-study methodology, we find strong complementarities between rail and telegraph networks in driving the movement’s spread.
Abstract:
How do social interactions shape collective action, and how are they mediated by networked information technologies? We answer these questions studying the Temperance Crusade, a wave of anti-liquor protest activity spreading across 29 states between 1873-1874. Relying on exogenous variation in net-work links generated by railroad accidents, we provide causal evidence of social interactions driving the diffusion of the movement, mediated by rail and telegraph information about neighboring activity. Local newspaper coverage of the Crusade was a key channel mediating these effects. Using an event-study methodology, we find strong complementarities between rail and telegraph networks in driving the movement’s spread.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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temperance crusade;
Social interactions;
collective action ;
networks;
railroads
JEL Classification:
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D71 Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
D85 Network Formation and Analysis: Theory
N11 Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
N31 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
N71 Economic History: Transport, Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
N91 Regional and Urban History: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
R40 Transportation Economics: General
Z12 Cultural Economics: Religion
D71 Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
D85 Network Formation and Analysis: Theory
N11 Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
N31 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
N71 Economic History: Transport, Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
N91 Regional and Urban History: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
R40 Transportation Economics: General
Z12 Cultural Economics: Religion
Geographic Coverage:
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US
Methodology
Unit(s) of Observation:
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Town
Geographic Unit:
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Town
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