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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 examine the long-run effect of homophily in online social networks on interpersonal interactions in local … communities. We measure online homophily across counties in the US using Facebook data. For identification, we exploit a conflict …
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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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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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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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other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily, namely … experiments on more than 2,500 French high-school students, we find high levels of homophily across all ten behavioral traits that … we study (including social, risk, competitive preferences, and aspirations). Notably, the extent of homophily depends on …
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This paper develops a search model with heterogeneous workers and social networks. High ability workers are more productive and have a larger number of professional contacts. Firms have a choice between a high cost vacancy in the regular labour market and a low cost job opening in the referral...
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In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using U.S. data from 1990, 1997 and 2005. Subsequently we examine the data for evidence of the conflict,...
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