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Friendship Network in the Classroom: Parents Bias and Peer Effects
Landini, Fabio; Montinari, Natalia; Pin, Paolo; … - 2014
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/10013208687
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Friendship Network in the Classroom: Parent Bias and Peer Effects
Landini, Fabio; Montinari, Natalia; Pin, Paolo; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014
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
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Random Graphs as Models of Networks
Newman, M. E. J. - Santa Fe Institute - 2002
The random graph of Erdos and Renyi is one of the oldest and best studied models of a network, and possesses the considerable advantage of being exactly solvable for many of its average properties. However, as a model of real-world networks such as the Internet, social networks or biological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623611
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Network security
Larson, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In a variety of settings, some payoff-relevant item spreads along a network of connected individuals. In some cases, the item will benefit those who receive it (for example, a music download, a stock tip, news about a new research funding source, etc.) while in other cases the impact may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246894
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Methods for analysis of social networks data in HRD research
Yamkovenko, Bogdan; Hatala, John Paul - In: Advances in developing human resources : ADHR 17 (2015) 1, pp. 40-56
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011284332
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Social Networks and Labor Market Inequality between Ethnicities and Races
Toomet, Ott; van der Leij, Marco; Rolfe, Meredith - 2012
network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other hand. Our analysis is based on both U.S. and Estonian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326543
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Friendship Networks and Political Opinions: A Natural Experiment among Future French Politicians
Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Le … - 2020
gap. The evidence is consistent with a homophily-enforced mechanism, by which friendship causes initially politically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497906
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Diversity and Popularity in Social Networks
Bramoulle, Yann; Rogers, Brian - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017526
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You are who your friends are: An experiment on trust and homophily in friendship networks
Kataria, Mitesh; Winter, Fabian - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369303
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On the puzzle of diversification in social networks with occupational mismatch
Zaharieva, Anna - 2015
a unique value of network homophily maximizing the present value of income. Therefore, there is a gain for risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582513