homophily and heterophily based structure of interactions. As an approximation of agents' behaviours households' expenditures … with the reference person attributes were used. The simulated structure of networks with individual density, calculated … Polish Households Budget Survey was used in this research. The results prove that homophilously structured social networks …

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 …

The paper studies the impact of homophily on the optimal strategies of a monopolist, whose marketing campaign of new … product relies on a word of mouth communication. Homophily is a tendency of people to interact more with those who are similar … a number of results: (i) for low levels of homophily the product attractive to both types of consumers is preferred to …

We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily … - the tendency of individuals to associate with others similar to themselves. Homophily has no effect if messages are … broadcast or sent via shortest paths; only connection density matters. In contrast, homophily substantially slows learning based …

Field studies of networks have uncovered a preference to befriend people we perceive as similar according to some … dimensions of our identity ('homophily'). Lab studies of network formation games have found that adherence to social norms of … both homophily and social norms in a controlled environment. At the beginning of our experiment, each player fills in a …

, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. We test the idea that networks arise according to homophily along many characteristics …This paper investigates the determinants of school friendship networks among adolescents, proposing a model of network …

examining school friendship networks in five European countries with recent immigration. Our results highlight the force of …

We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical … infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The actual speed of an Internet connection, in fact, rapidly decays with the distance … Internet caused a significant decline in forms of offline interaction and civic engagement. Overall, our results suggest that …

We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical … infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The actual speed of an Internet connection, in fact, rapidly decays with the distance … Internet caused a significant decline in forms of offline interaction and civic engagement. Overall, our results suggest that …

technological feature of the telecommunication infrastructure that generated substantial variation in the quality of Internet access … social capital from 1997 to 2017, we show that access to fast Internet caused a significant decline in civic and political …