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Social Connectedness Index
International trade and social connectedness
The authors use de-identified data from Facebook to construct a new, public measure of social connectedness between 170 countries and 332 European regions. We find that two countries trade more when they are more socially connected, especially for goods where information frictions may be large. The social connections that predict trade in specific products are those between the regions where the product is produced in the exporting country and the regions where it is used in the importing country.

Social Connectedness Index
Measuring Global Multi-Scale Place Connectivity using Geotagged Social Media Data
This paper compares the researchers' Place Connectivity Index, created from geotagged tweets, with mobility data, and Facebook's Social Connectedness Index (SCI). They present the correlation between their index and SCI as validation of their work and discuss crisis response applications for both natural disaster and the pandemic.