This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across …

and a unique rate of diffusion throughout the world. Suppose too that initially all countries are fairly closely bunched … together on each variable in fairly similar circumstances. Suppose, finally, that the geographic pattern of diffusion is the …

grade repetition and high-school dropout. Building on detailed information on friendship networks within classes, we also …

This paper extends the standard work effort model by allowing workers to interact through networks. We investigate … considered. Participants in Recursive networks are paired with participants who played previously in isolation. In Simultaneous … networks, participants interact in real-time along an undirected line. Mean peer effects are identified in both cases …

oldest and youngest child and the age of the youngest child, on parents' involvement in social networks. The predictions of a … children has a U -shaped effect on parents' involvement in social networks, with substantial differences between fathers and … mothers. The negative effect is dominant on the mothers' involvement in social networks, while the positive effect is dominant …

-style incentive scheme, and b) how such effects interact with exogenously formed social networks in the manufacturing workplace. First …