Cross-Gender Social Ties around the World
Michael Bailey, Drew Johnston, Theresa Kuchler, Ayush Kumar, Johannes Stroebel
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2025Cross-Gender Friending Ratio
A global dataset of cross-gender friendship links spanning nearly 200 countries and territories, constructed from more than a trillion friendship ties among Facebook users.
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