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gap. The evidence is consistent with a homophily-enforced mechanism, by which friendship causes initially politically …
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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 …
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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 …
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It is common for mentorship programs to use race, gender, and nationality to match mentors and mentees. Despite the popularity of these programs, there is little evidence on whether mentees value mentors with shared traits. Using novel administrative data from an online college mentoring...
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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 …
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Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of educationbased marriage market sorting. We develop a weighting strategy that minimizes the distortion of sorting measures due to changing type distributions. The optimal weights reflect that female type distributions have...
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thereby innovation. In this study, we shed light on the phenomenon of 'idea homophily', which is a tendency to be more …
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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 …
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An important goal when analyzing the causal effect of a treatment on an outcome is to understand the mechanisms through which the treatment causally works. We define a causal mechanism effect of a treatment and the causal effect net of that mechanism using the potential outcomes framework. These...
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Centralized school assignment algorithms must distinguish between applicants with the same preferences and priorities. This is done with randomly assigned lottery numbers, nonlottery tie-breakers like test scores, or both. The New York City public high school match illustrates the latter, using...
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