In this chapter, we provide an overview of research on neighborhoods and social networks and their role in shaping … social networks in crime, education, and labor-market outcomes. In particular, we discuss in detail identification problems …

examining school friendship networks in five European countries with recent immigration. Our results highlight the force of …

This paper investigates the determinants of school friendship networks among adolescents, proposing a model of network …, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. We test the idea that networks arise according to homophily along many characteristics …

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 … find large variation in Syrians’ social integration across German counties, and use a movers’ research design to document …

We analyse the role of ethnic networks, segregation and diversity of a region on migrants' success in integration into … the host countries' labour markets. We find a robust negative impact of ethnic networks on unemployment probabilities of …-education our results are less robust, but in their majority point to a negative impact of ethnic networks on the probability of …

participation: 1) interaction via both online social networks and face-to-face encounters; 2) interaction by exclusive means of face … networks users, thereby making Facebook and similar platforms disappear in the long run. Furthermore, we show that the higher … the propensity for discrimination of those who interact via online social networks and via face-to-face encounters (i …