We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily … on repeated averaging of neighbors' information and Markovian diffusion processes such as the Google random surfer model … friendship networks from the Adolescent Health dataset. …

We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily … on repeated averaging of neighbors' information and Markovian diffusion processes such as the Google random surfer model … friendship networks from the Adolescent Health dataset. …

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 …

to international travel, as indicated by centrality in air travel networks and tourist numbers is strongly associated …

to international travel, as indicated by centrality in air travel networks and tourist numbers is strongly associated …

The novelty of our model is to combine models of collective action on networks with models of social learning. Agents …