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The Economic Consequences of Social Network Structure
Jackson, Matthew O.; Rogers, Brian; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We survey the literatures on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of 'macro' and 'micro' characteristics of social inter-action networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings concerning the role of those characteristics in...
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Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties
Picard, Pierre M; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition the majority group resides close to the job center while the minority group lives far away from it. Even though the...
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Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; Duflo, Esther; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Can we identify the members of a community who are best- placed to diffuse information simply by asking a random sample of in- dividuals? We show that boundedly-rational individuals can, simply by tracking sources of gossip, identify those who are most central in a network according to...
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The Diffusion of Microfinance
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; Duflo, Esther; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We examine how participation in a microfinance program diffuses through social networks. We collected detailed demographic and social network data in 43 villages in South India before microfinance was introduced in those villages and then tracked eventual participation. We exploit exogenous...
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Neighborhood and Network Effects
Topa, Giorgio; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
In this chapter, we provide an overview of research on neighborhoods and social networks and their role in shaping behavior and economic outcomes. We include discussion of empirical and theoretical analyses of the role of neighborhoods and social networks in crime, education and labor-market...
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Social Networks
De Martí, Joan; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries
Alesina, Alberto F; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
us to measure segregation of different ethnic, religious and linguistic groups within the same country. The second goal … is to correlate measures of segregation with measures of quality of the polity and policymaking. The third is to … no relationship between religious segregation and the government quality. …
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Credit Standards and Segregation
Ouazad, Amine; Rancière, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
How do credit standards on the mortgage market affect neighbourhood choice and the resulting level of urban segregation … relaxation of credit standards can either increase or decrease segregation, depending on racial income gaps and on races …-2006 mortgage credit boom on the level of school segregation. Census tract racial composition is strongly correlated with the racial …
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The mechanisms of spatial mismatch
Gobillon, Laurent; Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis (SMH) argues that low-skilled minorities residing in U.S. inner cities experience poor labour-market outcomes because they are disconnected from suburban job opportunities. This assumption gave rise to an abundant empirical literature, which confirmed this...
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Racial Segregation and Public School Expenditure
La Ferrara, Eliana; Mele, Angelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper explores the effect of racial segregation on public school expenditure in US metropolitan areas and school … racial groups needs to be taken into account. Greater segregation is associated with more homogeneity in some subareas and …. For given fragmentation, the extent of segregation conveys information on households’ possibility to sort into relatively …
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