properties of their social relations and may exhibit homophily. The Saliyar community cluster in India is an archetype of this … evidence that it is not simply social embeddedness alone, but the homophily in socially embedded links that are detrimental to … unless combined with homophily. The conceptual ambit of embeddedness has to broaden out to recognise that social relations …

among agents in an a social network that exhibits segregation or homophily (the tendency of agents to associate with others … under which a behavior diffuses and becomes persistent in the population. These conditions relate to the level of homophily … with its own type. In particular, we show that homophily can facilitate diffusion from a small initial seed of adopters. …

Homophily, the tendency of linked agents to have similar characteristics, is an important feature of social networks … of intra- and inter-group links in terms of stochastic dominance, (ii) we show how, at the group level, homophily depends … homophily at the individual level. Especially, we find that popular individuals have more diverse networks. Our results are …

Homophily, the tendency of linked agents to have similar characteristics, is an im- portant feature of social networks … of intra- and inter-group links in terms of stochastic dominance, (ii) we show how, at the group level, homophily depends … homophily at the individual level. Especially, we ¯nd that popular individuals have more diverse networks. Our results are …

among agents in an a social network that exhibits segregation or homophily (the tendency of agents to associate with others … under which a behavior diffuses and becomes persistent in the population. These conditions relate to the level of homophily … with its own type. In particular, we show that homophily can facilitate diffusion from a small initial seed of adopters. …

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 …

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 …

segregation index is a generalization of the isolation index and a homophily index introduced in Currarini, Jackson, and Pin (2009 …