analyzed. There are significantly positive correlations between gift network centrality and various forms of informal insurance … researchers an underutilized means of data collection for social network analysis. This paper first summarizes unique features of … the observed gift network structure. …

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …

gangsters' importance in- side the network (called centrality) but not the preference for specific housing needs. A standard … their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking … causality between the economic status and the gangster's position in the network exploiting exogenous exposure to potential pre …

it has a good social network, and to satisfy labor demands within the household. Increases of one standard deviation in a … household's agricultural shock, percentage of good network members, or number of older girls increase the probability of sending …

strategy is able to control for the endogeneity of both social network and location choices. …

We study the causal impact of network centrality on educational outcomes using field experiments in primary schools in … experiments reveal that leadership, as measured by network centrality, mainly captures non-cognitive skills, especially patience …-player centralities. Leaders are mostly responsible for this effect, while bad apples have little influence. Own Katz-Bonacich centrality …

well as for the identity of the key player. We study the possibility of testing endogeneity in network formation. We … analysis suggests that greater care should be taken in grounding econometric network models to sound and credible theoretical …