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Homophily and long-run integration in social networks

Article
Author/s: 
Yann Bramoullé, Sergio Currarini, Matthew Jackson, Paolo Pin and Brian Rogers
Journal of Economic Theory
Issue number: 
5
Publisher: 
Elsevier
Year: 
2012
Journal pages: 
1754–1786
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We model network formation when heterogeneous nodes enter sequentially and form connections through both random meetings and network-based search, but with type-dependent biases. We show that there is “long-run integration”, whereby the composition of types in sufficiently old nodesʼ neighborhoods approaches the global type-distribution, provided that the network-based search is unbiased. However, younger nodesʼ connections still reflect the biased meetings process. We derive the type-based degree distributions and group-level homophily patterns when there are two types and location-based biases. Finally, we illustrate aspects of the model with an empirical application to data on citations in physics journals.

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[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022053112000610