gap. The evidence is consistent with a homophily-enforced mechanism, by which friendship causes initially politically … initially politically-dissimilar pairs. Friendship affects opinion gaps by reducing divergence, therefore polarization and …

Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy … issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts …. Based on different perspectives and features of the available data, a great variety of diversity indicators have emerged …

specification tests, offer potential solutions, and provide an application to the effects of social media on political polarization. …

average, children's homophily acts as a complement to the educational effort of highly educated parents but as a substitute … interactions with other low-educated students (i.e., homophily), which reduces the education effort of their parents and, thus …

other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily, namely … experiments on more than 2,500 French high-school students, we find high levels of homophily across all ten behavioral traits that … we study (including social, risk, competitive preferences, and aspirations). Notably, the extent of homophily depends on …

Diversity in employee representation is often advocated for its potential to promote the diversity of ideas, and … thereby innovation. In this study, we shed light on the phenomenon of 'idea homophily', which is a tendency to be more …

This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in …

or racial diversity, is less likely to be hired even when the other agent has no preference over private, non …