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Collective Action in Networks: Evidence from the Chilean Student Movement

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    Felipe González; 

  • class Documento de Trabajo IE-PUC, N° 509, 2018

Abstract: Hundreds of thousands of students skipped school during the 2011 student movement in Chile to protest and reform educational institutions. Using administrative data on millions of students’ daily school attendance on protest days, this paper presents robust evidence of school absenteeism following a threshold model of collective behavior. Students skipped school on a protest day only when more than 40% of the members of their networks also skipped school.

Keywords: collective action, networks, protests