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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775178
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752709
network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other hand. Our analysis is based on both U.S. and Estonian …
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gap. The evidence is consistent with a homophily-enforced mechanism, by which friendship causes initially politically …
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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 …
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We study the existence of homophily (i.e. the tendency for people to make friends with people who are similar to … existence of homophily with respect to trustworthiness. Trustors´ beliefs about the trustees´ trustfulness are not affected by …
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a unique value of network homophily maximizing the present value of income. Therefore, there is a gain for risk …
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average, children's homophily acts as a complement to the educational effort of highly educated parents but as a substitute … interactions with other low-educated students (i.e., homophily), which reduces the education effort of their parents and, thus …
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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...
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