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gap. The evidence is consistent with a homophily-enforced mechanism, by which friendship causes initially politically …
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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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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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We study the effect of lottery wins on social ties and support network in the United Kingdom. On average, we find that winning more in the lottery increases the probability of meeting friends on most days, which is consistent with the complementary effect of income on social ties. The opposite...
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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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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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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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In this paper, location choices are driven by households (both blacks and whites) consciously choosing to trade off proximity to neighbors of similar racial backgrounds for proximity to jobs. Because of coordination failures in the location choices, multiple urban equilibria emerge. There is a...
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