migrants form social links among them and the extent to which this network provides them with material support along three …

power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …-level relationship data from multiple sources, we compare the relationship-network characteristics of landowners of comparable sites …

points to that the proximity to people from the same region and possibly also one’s network plays an important role for the …

We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership … cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local … network even among its members. Because all projects have positive net value, it is efficient to finance them even in the …

This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among working-age immigrants in the …

punish each other (i.e., in a complete network). The architecture of social networks becomes important when individuals can … only monitor and punish the other individuals to whom they are connected by the network. We study several non …-trivial network architectures that give rise to their own distinctive patterns of behavior. Nevertheless, a number of simple, yet …

childhood circumstances and labor market outcomes on the one hand, and heights on the other, when networks are included as … labor market outcomes suggests that, while childhood circumstances affect height largely via social status and networks as …