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Friendship Network in the Classroom: Parents Bias and Peer Effects

Landini, Fabio; Montinari, Natalia; Pin, Paolo; … - 2014

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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Identity, trust and altruism: An experiment on preferences and microfinance lending

Chen, Josie I.; Foster, Andrew D.; Putterman, Louis G. - 2017

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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Whom to lobby? Targeting in political networks

Groll, Thomas; Prummer, Anja - 2016

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

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Gender & collaboration

Ductor, Lorenzo; Goyal, Sanjeev; Prummer, Anja - 2018

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

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Arbitrariness in the peer review process

Brezis, Elise S.; Birukou, Aliaksandr - 2019

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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Gender homophily, collaboration, and output

Prummer, Anja; Ductor, Lorenzo - 2023

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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Innovators, imitators, and the evolving architecture of social networks

Chang, Myong-Hun; Harrington, Joseph E. - 2005

Scientific progress is driven by innovation ?which serves to produce a diversity of ideas ?and imitation through a social network ?which serves to diffuse these ideas. In this paper, we develop an agent-based computational model of this process, in which the agents in the population are...

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Old boys' network in general practitioner's referral behavior

Hackl, Franz; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, Gerald - 2013

We analyzed the impact of social networks on general practitioners' (GPs) referral behavior based on administrative panel data from 2,684,273 referrals to resident specialists made between 1998 and 2007. To construct estimated social networks, we used information on the doctors' place and time...

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The Strength of Weak Leaders - An Experiment on Social Influence and Social Learning in Teams

Büchel, Berno; Klößner, Stefan; Lochmüller, Martin; … - 2018

We investigate how the selection process of a leader affects team performance with respect to social learning. We use a lab experiment in which an incentivized guessing task is repeated in a star network with the leader at the center. Leader selection is either based on competence, on...

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Convergence of cultural traits with time-varying self-confidence in the Panebianco (2014) model: A corrigendum

Panebianco, Fabrizio; Prummer, Anja; Siedlarek, Jan-Peter - 2017

We highlight that convergence in repeated averaging models commonly used to study cultural traits or opinion dynamics is not equivalent to convergence in Markov chain settings if transition matrices are time-varying. We then establish a new proof for the convergence of cultural traits in the...

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