in peer, neighborhood, and network effects and the policy implications of integrating the social and the geographical …

We develop a model of friendship formation that sheds light on segregation patterns observed in social and economic …

In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those … network structure on the country of origin, such as on international trade. We find that when the size of the diaspora is …

) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they exert in some activity (say education). We show that the more central … minority agents are in the social network, the more they assimilate to the majority culture. We also show that denser networks … tend to favor assimilation so that, for example, it is easier to assimilate in a complete network than in a star …

network) is argued to provide a niche for immigrants. Previous international studies adopt either ethnic concentration or … language as proxy for immigrants' network in host country. In this paper we introduce a new "spatial autoregressive network … approach" to construct a dynamic network variable from micro-data to capture the effects of social and resource networks for …

between post-modern and traditional cultures. Postmodernity seems to come along with less family network density and greater … formal network size; however, also with higher family social capital access than traditionalism. No clear distinction can be … drawn regarding size of friendship network and social capital accessed by the friendship network …