This study investigates the role of social networks in aligning the incentives of economic agents in settings with …

) matching the list of social connections to the census, and (4) repeating (1)-(3) across many networks. In settings requiring …-quality networks research to investigators with considerable resources. We propose an inexpensive and feasible strategy for network …

skill. The evidence indicates that these types of labor market networks do exist and play an important role in determining … Hispanics, and that these networks appear to be race-based …

In this paper, we investigate political communications in social networks characterized both by homophily–a tendency to … associate with similar individuals–and group size. To generate testable hypotheses, we develop a simple theory of information … diffusion in social networks with homophily and two groups: conservatives and liberals. The model predicts that, with homophily …

We develop a model of informal risk-sharing in social networks, where relationships between individuals can be used as …-dimensional networks, where people have connections in multiple directions, are sufficiently expansive to allow very good risk-sharing. We … show that social networks in Peruvian villages satisfy this dimensionality property; thus, our model can explain Townsend …