Online Social Network Effects in Labor Markets: Evidence From Facebook's Entry into College Campuses

Linkedin(to) Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training

“…We provide the first experimental evidence that training workseekers to use an existing job search and networking technology can improve their employment outcomes. This complements recent work showing that Facebook access can increase employment and earnings, potentially by facilitating referrals (Armona, 2019). Gee et al (2017) also document patterns of job-switching consistent with referrals from Facebook friends.…”

Social Media and Mental Health

“…6 Lastly, this paper contributes to an emerging literature exploiting the expansion of social media platforms to study the effects of social media on a variety of outcomes. The empirical strategy adopted in this paper is closely related to the one in Armona (2019), who leverages the staggered introduction of Facebook across U.S. colleges to study labor market outcomes more than a decade later. Enikolopov et al (2020) and Fergusson and Molina (2020) exploit the expansion of social media platform VK in Russia and of Facebook worldwide, respectively, to show that social media use increases protest participation.…”