We propose a social network-aware approach to study socio-economic segregation. The
key question that we address is whether patterns of segregation are more pronounced in …

Little is known about the impact of peer personality on human capital formation. The paper
studies the impact of peers' persistence, a personality trait reflecting perseverance in the …

Discrimination in social networks often assumes the form of marginalization against nodes
with specific features, eg, segregation of/against minorities. In this work, we propose a metric …

This paper investigates the peer effects arising from the the random assignment of
undergraduate students to first-semester class groups at a leading Chilean university. While …

The identification of peer effects is plagued by self-sorting and complex interactions. By
applying a strict criteria of random class assignment, we overcome the endogeneity of …