Identifying the roles of race-based choice and chance in high school friendship network formation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4857-4861

  Currarini, Sergio ^a   Jackson, Matthew O ^b,c   Pin, Paolo ^d  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Friendships; High schools; Homophily; Segregation; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FRIENDSHIP; HIGH SCHOOL; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL NETWORK;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CALIBRATION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FRIENDS; HUMANS; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77950373212     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911793107     Document Type: Article

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