The paper examines individuals’ abilities to identify the highly central people in their social networks, where … centrality is defined by diffusion centrality (Banerjee, Chandrasekhar, Duflo, and Jackson, 2013), which characterizes a nodeâ …€™s influence in spreading information. It first show that diffusion centrality nests standard centrality measures – degree …

We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of … "macro" and "micro" characteristics of social interaction networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings … concerning the role of those characteristics in determining learning, diffusion, decisions, and resulting behaviors. We also …

We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of … "macro" and "micro" characteristics of social interaction networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings … concerning the role of those characteristics in determining learning, diffusion, decisions, and resulting behaviors. We also …