We develop a model of friendship formation that sheds light on segregation patterns observed in social and economic … networks. Individuals come in different types and have type-dependent benefits from friendships; we examine the properties of a …

This paper develops a measure of segregation based on two premises: (1) a measure of segregation should disaggregate to … interacts. Developing three desirable axioms that any segregation measure should satisfy, we prove that one and only one … segregation index satisfies our three axioms, and the two aims mentioned above; which we coin the Spectral Segregation Index. We …

-assimilative integration, where groups integrate but individuals retain their own identity; and segregation, where groups socially segregate …; a community is integrated when there is no social segregation between different identities. I find three possible … and retain their own culture. I find that certain community environments encourage segregation: (i) communities with …

We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily … friendship networks from the Adolescent Health dataset. …

exposure of each of them to the other community. We derive a number of results with regard to equilibrium networks. In … segregation are socially desirable only if they reduce the within-community cost differential by a sufficiently large amount. …

This descriptive paper documents how segregation between blacks and whites across colleges in the United States has … study the issue of segregation within colleges. The main findings are as follows: (1) White exposure to blacks has been …) A major channel for the decline in segregation is the declining share of blacks attending historically black colleges …