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We develop and estimate a model of student study time on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time...
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differences in opinions by 40% of the standard deviation of opinion gap. The evidence is consistent with a homophily …
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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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, connections increase over time, but homophily on gender and ethnicity is relatively constant across time, university residences … layers. Furthermore, we see assortativity in homophilous tendencies. There is weaker, albeit significant, homophily over …
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The aim of this article is to broaden the notion of « local productive system » beyond the specific case of "districts" of small firms specialized in traditional products. I use the criterion of the existence of cooperations that coexist with competition relations within a set of firms of a...
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Recent developments in economic activity call for a renewal of the tools for analyzing the impact of agglomeration on economic activity. By drawing on the ideas of Paul Claval in relation to cities and on those of Alfred Marshall concerning industrial districts, we propose to use thenotion of...
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Creation of innovative companies is supposed to be one of the driving forces of local innovation systems development, but it has not been often studied from a spatial perspective. Do innovative companies tend to geographically concentrate ? How do founders choose the place where they settle...
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This paper discusses the impact of entrepreneurs in creating a district and an ethnic community. More particularly, the last four decades have seen Portuguese residing in Montreal develop a complex and prosperous community. They have started up organisations, enterprises and communication and...
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Merchant guilds have been portrayed as social networks that generated beneficial social capital by sustaining shared norms, effectively transmitting information, and successfully undertaking collective action. This social capital, it is claimed, benefited society as a whole by enabling rulers to...
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The recent house price experiences within an individual's social network affect her perceptions of the attractiveness of property investments, and through this channel have large effects on her housing market activity. Our data combine anonymized social network information from Facebook with...
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