How do information interventions affect individual efforts to expand social networks? We study a randomized controlled … less in expanding their social networks upon arrival. Our results suggest that endogenous reductions in acquisition of …

social interaction model in the context of students' school networks included in the National Longitudinal Study of …

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

and frequency of use of social networks, combined with a number of measures of general and domain-specific trust, which …

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 …

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 …