Ballester, Coralio; Vorsatz, Marc - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 3, pp. 383-401
We propose an intuitive way of how to measure segregation in social and spatial networks. Using random walks, we define … the segregation index as the probability that an individual meets an individual from the same social group. The … segregation index is a generalization of the isolation index and a homophily index introduced in Currarini, Jackson, and Pin (2009 …