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Chaudhury, Anjan Ray; Sinha, Madhabendra - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 41 (2019) 6, pp. 1095-1108

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The ghetto underclass : social science perspectives

Wilson, William J. (contributor); Wilson, William J. (ed.) - 1989

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Segregation in den Städten [Gutachten]

Strohmeier, Klaus Peter - 2006

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Civil liberties and social structure

Erol, Selman; García Jimeno, Camilo - 2024 - This version: February 14, 2024

social structure and civil liberties. We show that segregation and unequal treatment sustain each other as coordination …

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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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Signaling Class : An Experiment Examining Social Class Perceptions from Names Used in Correspondence Audit Studies

Gaddis, S. Michael - 2019

Field and survey experiments examining racial discrimination and inequality commonly use names to signal race and ethnicity. However, little work has been done to understand how individuals interpret these signals. Despite strong concerns that racialized names simultaneously signal social class,...

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Touch thee not : group conflict, caste power, and untouchability in rural India

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Pal, Sarmistha - 2018

We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two-dimensional simultaneous group conflict over social norms, wherein an upper and backward (OBC) caste Hindu bloc contests the 'scheduled' castes (SCs) over the extent to which behavioural...

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An economic model of friendship : homophily, minorities and segregation

Currarini, Sergio; Jackson, Matt O.; Pin, Paolo - 2007

We develop a model of friendship formation that sheds light on segregation patterns observed in social and economic …

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