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higher resource flow as well as homophily reinforce decision-makers' ideological bias. We highlight that competing lobbyists …' efforts do not neutralize each other and their payoffs and competitive advantages depend on the networks they face. Our …
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We construct a dedicated web interface and use it to conduct a laboratory experiment to study willingness to lend and preference over borrowers in micro-finance lending. We distinguish between perceptions of transaction-related factors, such as neediness and trustworthiness, and identity-related...
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the co-authorship networks of men and women: women have fewer collaborators, collaborate more often with the same co … more senior co-authors. Standard models of homophily and discrimination cannot account for these differences. We discuss …
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homophily in their taste and perception of innovative ideas. The second element is that reviewers are different in the time they …
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We interview both parents and their children enrolled in six primary schools in the district of Treviso (Italy). We study the structural differences between the children network of friends reported by children and the one elicited asking their parents. We find that the parents' network has a...
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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. …
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This chapter discusses identification of common selection models of the labor market. We start with the classic Roy …
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for risk and how much represents selection. The positive association between permanent risk and earnings is compensation … for risk, but selection is responsible for the observed relationship between temporary risk and the level of earnings. …
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When a survey response mechanism depends on the variable of interest measured within the same survey and observed for only part of the sample, the situation is one of nonignorable nonresponse. Ignoring the nonresponse is likely to generate significant bias in the estimates. To solve this, one...
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This paper evaluates two Swedish active labour market programmes for youth, namely youth practice and labour market training. A non-parametric matching approach is applied to estimate the average program effects. Moreover, the results obtained by matching are compared to results from standard...
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