) 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 …

In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those … immigrants and the new society in their host country. Spread of migrants from the same origin in the diaspora may well increase … network structure on the country of origin, such as on international trade. We find that when the size of the diaspora is …

migrants form social links among them and the extent to which this network provides them with material support along three …

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 …

We consider a model of network interactions where the outcome of a unit depends on the outcomes of the connected units …. We determine the key network link, i.e., the network link whose removal results in the largest reduction in the aggregate … outcomes, and provide a measure that quantifies the contribution of a network link to the aggregate outcomes, which complements …

natural exogenous variation in network formation induced by the land occupation movement and the agrarian reform. By using …

causal identification of peer effects depends on the structure of the network itself. In the absence of correlated effects …, the reflection problem is generally solved by network interactions even in non-linear, heterogeneous models. By contrast … correlated effects and network endogeneity in particular. We classify these approaches in four broad categories: random peers …