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Friendship Network in the Classroom: Parent Bias and Peer Effects

Landini, Fabio; Montinari, Natalia; Pin, Paolo; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 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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Friendship Network in the Classroom: Parents Bias and Peer Effects

Landini, Fabio; Montinari, Natalia; Pin, Paolo; … - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2014

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Continuous Homophily and Clustering in Random Networks

Gauer, Florian; Landwehr, Jakob - Institut für Mathematische Wirtschaftsforschung, … - 2014

We propose a random network model incorporating heterogeneity of agents and a continuous notion of homophily. Unlike … the vast majority of the corresponding economic literature, we capture homophily in terms of similarity rather than … homophily levels. As a possible application we provide a stylized labor market model, where a firm can hire a worker via the …

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Persistent Classmates: How Familiarity with Peers Protects from Disruptive School Transitions

Ly, Son Thierry; Riegert, Arnaud - HAL - 2013

Students' social networks are deeply disrupted during school transitions and students start in a classroom environment where almost all their peers are new. In this study, we investigate the consequences of keeping partly the same classmates during the transition to high school. To overcome the...

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Diffusion and cascading behavior in random networks

Lelarge, Marc - In: Games and Economic Behavior 75 (2012) 2, pp. 752-775

The spread of new ideas, behaviors or technologies has been extensively studied using epidemic models. Here we consider a model of diffusion where the individualsʼ behavior is the result of a strategic choice. We study a simple coordination game with binary choice and give a condition for a new...

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Random Graphs as Models of Networks

Newman, M. E. J. - Santa Fe Institute - 2002

The random graph of Erdos and Renyi is one of the oldest and best studied models of a network, and possesses the considerable advantage of being exactly solvable for many of its average properties. However, as a model of real-world networks such as the Internet, social networks or biological...

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Ego-Centered Networks and the Ripple Effect

Newman, M. E. J. - Santa Fe Institute - 2001

Recent work has demonstrated that many social networks, and indeed many networks of other types also, have broad distributions of vertex degree. Here we show that this has a substantial impact on the shape of ego-centered networks, i.e., sets of network vertices that are within a given distance...

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Network security

Larson, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In a variety of settings, some payoff-relevant item spreads along a network of connected individuals. In some cases, the item will benefit those who receive it (for example, a music download, a stock tip, news about a new research funding source, etc.) while in other cases the impact may be...

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Tolerating the Intolerant

Aguiar, Fernando; Parravano, Antonio - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 59 (2015) 1, pp. 29-50

We model a community of individuals whose relationships are governed by the rules of the so-called Heider balance theory, but modified to address the impact of tolerating intolerant individuals. To consider tolerance toward a different group, the elements are assigned one of the two flags, A or...

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The Economic Consequences of Social Network Structure

Jackson, Matthew O.; Rogers, Brian; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We survey the literatures on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of 'macro' and 'micro' characteristics of social inter-action networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings concerning the role of those characteristics in...

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