effects on labor supply. We vary whether the offered account is private or known to the worker's network, altering the …

) 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 …

informal network. The model predicts that a greater degree of unobserved heterogeneity tilts the estimates toward producing a …

their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking … causality between the economic status and the gangster's position in the network exploiting exogenous exposure to potential pre … gangsters' importance in- side the network (called centrality) but not the preference for specific housing needs. A standard …