both the identity and perceived quality of their mentors (seniors). A preference for homophily results in the persistence …

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

thereby innovation. In this study, we shed light on the phenomenon of 'idea homophily', which is a tendency to be more … Online experiment involving 500 participants. We find substantial gender differences in which ideas people are choosing to …-fields in general increase exposure to female ideas but do not lead to an over-representation of either gender conditional on …

, then expected homophily in the contact network structure induces different career choices for individuals from different …