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other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily … than 2,500 French high-school students, we find high levels of homophily across all ten behavioral traits that we study …. Notably, the extent of homophily depends on similarities in demographic characteristics, in particular with respect to gender …
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differences in opinions by 40% of the standard deviation of opinion gap. The evidence is consistent with a homophily …
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What are the aggregate and distributional consequences of the relationship between an individual's social network and financial decisions? Motivated by several well-documented facts about the influence of social connections on financial decisions, we build and calibrate a model of stock market...
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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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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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We develop and estimate a model of student study time on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time...
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other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily … than 2,500 French high-school students, we find high levels of homophily across all ten behavioral traits that we study …. Notably, the extent of homophily depends on similarities in demographic characteristics, in particular with respect to gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374568
quarter of the mean difference. It likely works through a homophily-enforced mechanism, by which friendship causes politically …
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gap. The evidence is consistent with a homophily-enforced mechanism, by which friendship causes initially politically …
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