Workers with lower socio-economic status more frequently use social networks to get jobs. This negative self-selection is not well accounted for by existing theories. We present a model that explains why it occurs. When social networks are connected to mismatched occupations, workers with fewer...

As agents who have the opportunity to develop connections in multiple geographic locations and networks, migrants are uniquely suited to play brokerage roles in science, innovation, and entrepreneurship. But can they succeed in connecting others in their home and host environments? We...

Intergenerational persistence in studying for elite education is high across the world. We study the role that exposure to high school peers from elite educated families ('elite peers') plays in driving such a phenomenon in Norway. Using register data on ten cohorts of high school students and...

This study presents a general framework for quantifying network advantage—i.e., the greater expected gains from a given network position over another—on the basis of a discrete choice model with connection intensity. Network advantage originates from the uncertainty of realizing gains from...

We reconsider de Marti and Zenou (2017) model of friendship network formation where individuals belong to two different communities and costs of forming links depend on community memberships. Many inefficient friendship networks such as segregation can arise when all individuals are myopic. Once...

This article models the geography of the 9/11 network member’s many travels from the moment the hijackers first boarded a plane to the United States until they killed 2,977 people on September 11, 2001. Building on publicly available sources, and for the first time in the literature, we...

This chapter considers why and how professional networking activities could be integrated in an IP law curriculum. It also reviews some of the ways in which this could be done, including: guest lectures, meetings with professionals, practical sessions/tutorials and job experience...

Environmental co-management has been advocated and applied in diverse contexts as an integrative and inclusive approach to make biodiversity conservation more effective and contextual. Co-management however requires the actors involved to overcome tacit boundaries and reconcile different...