. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and … impact of network use on wages. Using job contacts brings open access to urban employment, but at the cost of markedly lower …

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 …

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

when these network relationships lead to productive social outcomes. In that sense, social capital is productive capital … specific way: by facilitating the transfer of information that helps improve the economic wellbeing of network members …

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

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 …

strength of a network by its likelihood of providing a job offer. Using a theoretical model we show that the wage differential … in jobs found using networks versus those found using formal channels, decreases as the network becomes stronger. We … verify this result for recent immigrants to Canada for whom a strong network is captured by the presence of a 'close tie …