School ties: An analysis of homophily in an adolescent friendship network

Homophily is the tendency to establish relationships among people who share similar characteristics or attributes. This study presents evidence of homophilic behaviour for an adolescent friendship network of 6,961 links in the West of England. We control for unobserved characteristics by estimating...

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Main Author: Eleanor Sanderson (Author)
Contributors: Simon Burgess ; Marcela Umana-Aponte
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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