How Do Friendships Form

By David Marmaros, Bruce I. Sacerdote. 2006

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Social networks (2009, neutral): “We ﬁnd that decisions differed in their degree of deliberation, and that respondents did not appear to weigh accessibility as they did other factors when seeking or getting help, instead engaging in a different decision-making process altogether.”
Peer Effects in Education: How Might They Work, How Big Are They and How Much Do We Know Thus Far? (2011, background): “11 Martins and Walker (2006) and Parker, Grant, Crouter, and Rivenburg (2008) also find no evidence of classroom peers on own grades.”
Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs1 (2017, background): “For instance, Marmaros and Sacerdote (2006) show that friendship formation on a college campus depends on random assignment to residence halls.”
Airtime transfers and mobile communications: Evidence in the aftermath of natural disasters (2016, methodology): “• Social connectedness (Sij): To measure the strength of the social connection between i and j, we calculate Sij in two ways: first, following Marmaros & Sacerdote (2006) we count the total number of non-monetary interactions (phone calls and text messages) between i and j in a 3-month window.”
Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks (2009, background): “(2)Economists mostly use interaction frequency to define link strength (Marmaros and Sacerdote 2006) while sociologists use both frequency and intimacy measures (Granovetter 1974, Granovetter 1985, Marsden and Campbell.”