Diffusion, Strategic Interaction, and Social Structure

By Matthew O. Jackson, Leeat Yariv. Handbook of Social Economics, 2011

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We provide an overview and synthesis of the literature on how social networks influence behaviors, with a focus on diffusion. We discuss some highlights from the empirical literature on the impact of networks on behaviors and diffusion. We also discuss some of the more prominent models of network interactions, including recent advances regarding interdependent behaviors, modeled via games on networks. JEL Classification Codes: D85, C72, L14, Z13

Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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The Economic Consequences of Social Network Structure (2017, unknown): “It is thus possible that two societies with slightly different densities could experience 17For surveys see Jackson and Yariv (2011); Lamberson (2016). very different responses to the same diffusion process (e.g., Watts (2002); Lopez-Pintado (2008)).”
The Diffusion of Microfinance (2013, unknown): “The literature documenting diffusion in various case studies spans decades from Ryan and Gross (1943) on the diffusion of hybrid corn adoption, to Lazarsfeld et al. (1944) on word-of-mouth influences on voting behavior, to Katz and Lazarsfeld (1955) on the roles of opinion leaders in product choices”
Social Networks and the Decision to Insure (2015, background): “(2010); Jackson and Yariv (2010); Banerjee et al.”
How Homophily Affects the Speed of Learning and Best Response Dynamics (2012, background): “, see the survey by Jackson and Yariv [2011]), there has been no work relating homophily to the speed of convergence. We address this gap by: (i) working with a model of networks that captures both homophily and link density; and (ii) studying how these properties affect simple but important benchma”