when these network relationships lead to productive social outcomes. In that sense, social capital is productive capital … specific way: by facilitating the transfer of information that helps improve the economic wellbeing of network members …

-level relationship data from multiple sources, we compare the relationship-network characteristics of landowners of comparable sites …

We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network … matters for friendship ties but that structural network variables are important in all network dimensions. Importantly, these … effects are not invariant across different network dimensions. We also find that individual characteristics are unrelated with …

Social network analysis can help us understand more about the root causes of delinquent behavior and crime and provide … recent contributions made by network economists. We highlight 10 policy lessons and provide a discussion of recent …

) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they exert in some activity (say education). We show that the more central … minority agents are in the social network, the more they assimilate to the majority culture. We also show that denser networks … tend to favor assimilation so that, for example, it is easier to assimilate in a complete network than in a star …

network structure and we examine equilibrium selection. Specifically, actions are either strategic substitutes or strategic … complements, and participants have either complete or incomplete information about the structure of a random network. Since … for reduced exposure to loss, and 2) uncertainty about the network structure makes it considerably more difficult to …

A large literature has studied how peers affect behavior by exploiting the preexisting social network structure only … unique panel dataset that contains detailed information on the network of informal financial transactions before and after a … structure of the network of informal financial transactions among households. Second, we estimate a panel model of peer effects …

In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those … network structure on the country of origin, such as on international trade. We find that when the size of the diaspora is …