Like father, like son: Social network externalities and parent-child correlation in behavior

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 124-150

  Calvó Armengol, Antoni ^b   Jackson, Matthew O ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 85017137730     PISSN: 19457669     EISSN: 19457685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/mic.1.1.124     Document Type: Article

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