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migrants form social links among them and the extent to which this network provides them with material support along three …
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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 …
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) 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 …
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Although the linear-in-means model is the workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects, its theoretical properties are understudied. In this study, we develop a social-norm model that provides a microfoundation of the linear-in-means model and investigate its properties. We show that...
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natural exogenous variation in network formation induced by the land occupation movement and the agrarian reform. By using …
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Social networks are known to influence migration decisions, but connections between individuals can hardly be observed. We rely on individual-level surveys conducted by Gallup in 147 countries that provide information on migration intentions and on the existence of distance-one connections for...
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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 …
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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 …
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maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors … possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … the coauthorship network. Moreover, we analyze funding instruments for individual researchers as well as research …
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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 …
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