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 …

gap. The evidence is consistent with a homophily-enforced mechanism, by which friendship causes initially politically …

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 …

frequently than predicted by their proportion among authors. Using a measure of homophily for individual papers, we find that … greater homophily is associated with publication in lower impact journals and with fewer citations, even holding fixed the …

thereby innovation. In this study, we shed light on the phenomenon of 'idea homophily', which is a tendency to be more …