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 …

homophily, the principle that "likes attract." However, follow-up studies showed that this diversity collapses under random … included either social influence or homophily but not both. The authors conclude that global diversity may be sustained not by …

of more than just an inferior network position. Instead, two mechanisms--periphery status and homophily--jointly operate …

Under the sociological theory of homophily, people who are similar to one another are more likely to interact with one … another. Marketers often have access to data on interactions among customers from which, with homophily as a guiding principle … customer interactions that is both grounded in the theory of homophily and is flexible enough to account for random variation …

among agents in an a social network that exhibits segregation or homophily (the tendency of agents to associate with others … similar to themselves). Individuals are distinguished by their types (e.g., race, gender, age, wealth, religion, profession … under which a behavior diffuses and becomes persistent in the population. These conditions relate to the level of homophily …

gap. The evidence is consistent with a homophily-enforced mechanism, by which friendship causes initially politically …

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 …