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    • Estimating Peer Effects in Longitudinal Dyadic Data Using Instrumental Variables 

      O'Malley, A James; Elwert, Felix; Rosenquist, J Niels; Zaslavsky, Alan M; Christakis, Nicholas A (BlackWell Publishing Ltd, 2014)
      The identification of causal peer effects (also known as social contagion or induction) from observational data in social networks is challenged by two distinct sources of bias: latent homophily and unobserved confounding. ...