We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The … hypothesis, I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …

maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors … possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … the coauthorship network. Moreover, we analyze funding instruments for individual researchers as well as research …

that the completely connected network is stable, although, its exact structure, and thus contagion implications, is …

financial network where good firms enjoy direct and indirect benefits from linking with one another. Bad risks benefit from …

(henceforth EE) from 1980-1988 and their academic networks (1980-1988), We investigate the effect of academic network … achieved. Approximately 30k academics from EE were identified, from which 3% were migrants. The results could be explained by … two channels, the cost and signalling channel. The cost channel is how the network characteristic reduces or increases the …

, and different network layers. At the individual level, homophilous tendencies are persistent across time and network … those characteristics. We also document the nuanced impact of network connections on changes in Grade Point Average. …