Multinomial Choice with Social Interactions: Occupations in Victorian London

Discrete Choice with Social Interactions

This paper provides an analysis of aggregate behavioural outcomes when individual utility exhibits social interaction effects. We study generalized logistic models of individual choice which incorporate terms reflecting the desire of individuals to conform to the behaviour of others in an environment of noncooperative decisionmaking. Laws of large numbers are generated in such environments. Mul...

Health and housing in Victorian London.

I In January 1908, the council of the London borough of Islington met to consider a report from the Medical Officer of Health which indicated that the level of infant mortality was the same as in the 1840s, 146 per 1,000. A resolution was moved that three paid health visitors should be appointed as part of a campaign to reduce this heavy toll; also before the council was a protest from the Holl...

Slumming: Eros and Altruism in Victorian London

OR THE BETTER part of the century preceding World War II, Britons went slumming to see for themselves how the poor lived. They insisted that firsthand experience among the metropolitan poor was essential for all who claimed to speak authoritatively about social problems. To a remarkable degree, the men and women who governed church and state in late-nineteenthand twentieth-century Britain and d...

Death and miasma in Victorian London: an obstinate belief.

Binary Choice Models with Social Interactions under Heterogeneous Rational Expectations

This paper extends Brock and Durlauf’s models on binary choice with social interactions. In the extended model, an individual will form expected behaviors of peers taking into account their characteristics. The expected behaviors of peers in a group are heterogeneous. The expectations of peers are determined as rational expectations. We consider models in both group and network settings. Endoge...