rather develop: in treatments with a high-value agent, the network's centrality, stability, and efficiency all increase over …This paper reports the results of a laboratory experiment on network formation among heterogeneous agents. The … experimental design extends the basic Bala-Goyal (2000) model of network formation with decay and two-way flow of benefits by …

Social networks are a key factor of success in life, but they are also strongly segmented on gender, ethnicity, and … about how these traits are associated to social networks. Based on unique data that we collected using incentivized … traits that students share, the higher the overall homophily. Then, using network econometrics, we show that the observed …

borne but rather develop: in treatments with a high-value agent, the network's centrality, stability, and efficiency all …This paper reports the results of a laboratory experiment on network formation among heterogeneous agents. The … experimental design extends the basic Bala-Goyal (2000) model of network formation with decay and two-way flow of benefits by …

network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics approach is capable of reproducing most observed networks, it does …We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics … not explain why they emerge. On the contrary, the economics approach is very precise in explaining why networks emerge but …

gangsters' importance in- side the network (called centrality) but not the preference for specific housing needs. A standard … their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking … causality between the economic status and the gangster's position in the network exploiting exogenous exposure to potential pre …

gangsters' importance in- side the network (called centrality) but not the preference for specific housing needs. A standard … their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking … causality between the economic status and the gangster's position in the network exploiting exogenous exposure to potential pre …

A large literature has studied how peers affect behavior by exploiting the preexisting social network structure only …. What if networks rewire in response to changes in the economic environment, such as a randomized intervention? We exploit a … unique panel dataset that contains detailed information on the network of informal financial transactions before and after a …

A large literature has studied how peers affect behavior by exploiting the preexisting social network structure only …. What if networks rewire in response to changes in the economic environment, such as a randomized intervention? We exploit a … unique panel dataset that contains detailed information on the network of informal financial transactions before and after a …

are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic center of interaction, choose higher … density of links in the social network and with the degree to which agents are clustered in physical space. When agents can … choose geographic locations, there is a tendency for those who are more central in the social network to locate closer to the …

between program participation in a recipient's local network and underreporting program participation in surveys. We find a …