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Online networks, social interaction and segregation: An evolutionary approach

Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio - 2018

There is growing evidence that face-to-face interaction is declining in many countries, exacerbating the phenomenon of social isolation. On the other hand, social interaction through online networking sites is steeply rising. To analyze these societal dynamics, we have built an evolutionary game...

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Random Walk-Based Segregation Measures

Ballester, Coralio; Vorsatz, Marc - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 3, pp. 383-401

We propose an intuitive way of how to measure segregation in social and spatial networks. Using random walks, we define … the segregation index as the probability that an individual meets an individual from the same social group. The … segregation index is a generalization of the isolation index and a homophily index introduced in Currarini, Jackson, and Pin (2009 …

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Search and Homophily in Social Networks

Currarini, Sergio; Redondo, Fernando Vega - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2010

We study the formation of social ties among heteogeneous agents in a model where meetings are governed by agents' directed search. The aim is to shed light on the important issue of homophily (the tendency of agents to connect with others of the same type). The essential contribution of the...

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