An Overview of Social Networks and Economic Applications

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Social Networks and Labor Markets: How Strong Ties Relate to Job Finding on Facebook’s Social Network (2017, background): “The first, the Descriptive Weak Ties Hypothesis, mirrors that from the empirical portion of Grano- 1 See Marsden and Gorman (2001), Ioannides and Loury (2004), Jackson (2011), Munshi (2011), and Topa (2011).”
The Economic Consequences of Social Network Structure (2017, neutral): “See, in particular, Jackson (2003, 2004, 2005, 2011), Ioannides and Datcher-Loury (2004), Granovetter (2005), Jackson and Yariv (2011), Jackson and Zenou (2015), as well as the books by Demange and Wooders (2003), Vega-Redondo (2007), Goyal (2007), Jackson (2008a), Benhabib, Bisin and Jackson…”
Social Networks and the Decision to Insure (2015, background): “For a comprehensive review, see Jackson (2010).”
Social Networks and the Identification of Peer Effects (2013, methodology): “Following Jackson (2008), we refer to this type of model as a Strategic Network Formation Model (see also Jackson 2003, 2006, 2011).”
Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration (2021, background): “Average caste-based homoph-ily ( following Jackson 2011 is 1.92: study participants are roughly twice as likely to form friendships with a participant from the same caste than with a participant in general.”