We consider the implications of gender homophily in Economics, which has persisted despite the significant increase in … women in the field. As women remain underrepresented, gender homophily may serve as a constraint in collaboration. It could …. We show that gender homophily neither constrains collaboration nor prevents higher quality output. …

higher resource flow as well as homophily reinforce decision-makers' ideological bias. We highlight that competing lobbyists …

more senior co-authors. Standard models of homophily and discrimination cannot account for these differences. We discuss …

methodology that uses a homophily-based model of co-authoring decisions to isolate the effect of peer influence from unobserved … fraction of conformists and the overall homophily in co-authoring, in contrast, slowed the adoption of innovative writing …