There have been divergent findings regarding the impact of social structure on violence. Some scholars assert that civic ties reduce violence by constraining conflict between groups and regulating the behavior of armed actors (Varshney, 2002; Kaplan, 2009). Other research shows social ties...

We study the social structure of Facebook ‘‘friendship'' networks at one hundred American colleges and universities at a single point in time, and we examine the roles of user attributes -- gender, class year, major, high school, and residence -- at these institutions. We investigate the...

We take an equilibrium-based approach to study the interplay between behavior and misperceptions in coordination games with assortative interactions. Our focus is assortativity neglect, where agents fail to take into account the extent of assortativity in society. We show, first, that...