Social networks are known to influence migration decisions, but connections between individuals can hardly be observed …

This paper analyzes the role of networks in access of women entrepreneurs to start-up capital and firm performance in … educated counterparts. Moreover, women who receive support from professional networks have higher initial capital, while those … trained in financial literacy more often access external funding sources, including through their networks. …

The literature on social networks often presumes that job search through (strong) social ties leads to increased … above presumption, there is less sorting inequality among the workers hired through social networks. This outcome results …

networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network … structure. We examine how pre-play communication and clustering within networks affect coordination in a challenging … experimental game on eight-person networks. Free-form chat is enormously effective in achieving the nonequilibrium efficient …