Modeling and Estimating Biases in Friendship and Network Formation

We analyze friendship formation patterns and develop a dynamic model of friendship formation that combines choices with random meeting patterns. We estimate biases in agents' preferences over the races of their friends and biases in the rates at which agents of various races meet each other. We find that both biases are significant in the data and that the biases differ significantly across races.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Currarini, Sergio ; Pin, Paolo ; Jackson, Matthew O.
Institutions:	Society for Economic Dynamics - SED

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Series:	2009 Meeting Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series 2009 SED Meeting Papers Number 103
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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