Social networks are now deemed a critical element of economic activity. In the study of social networks and new venture creation, immigrant entrepreneurs have received focused attention as exemplary cases illustrating the benefits of social networks. The seemingly tightly woven networks among...

We investigate whether peer effects at work differ by gender and whether gender differences in peer effects -if any- depend on work organization. We develop a social network model with gender heterogeneity that we test in a real-effort laboratory experiment. We compare sequential networks in...