The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …

the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …

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 …

) 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 … structure of the network of informal financial transactions among households. Second, we estimate a panel model of peer effects … unique panel dataset that contains detailed information on the network of informal financial transactions before and after a …

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