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20202026
most citedThe Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets

4 citations · 4 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

econ.GN2026

The Economic Benefits and Costs of AI and Policies to Mitigate AI's Impact on Inequality

Matthew O. Jackson, Zafer Kanik

We examine the economic impact of increasingly productive AI and policies that spread its benefits across the economy. Improvements in AI productivity trigger labor reallocation an…

econ.GN2025

Peer Influence on West Point Cadets' Civil War Allegiances

Yuchen Guo, Matthew O. Jackson, Ruixue Jia

Do social networks and peer influence shape major life decisions in highly polarized settings? We explore this question by examining how peers influenced the allegiances of West Po…

econ.GN2025

Inequality's Economic and Social Roots: the Role of Social Networks and Homophily

Matthew O. Jackson

I discuss economic and social sources of inequality and elaborate on the role of social networks in inequality, economic immobility, and economic inefficiencies. The lens of social…

econ.GN2025

Optimal Regulation and Investment Incentives in Financial Networks

Matthew O. Jackson, Agathe Pernoud

We examine optimal regulation of financial networks with debt interdependencies between financial firms. We first show that firms often have an incentive to choose excessively risk…

econ.TH2023

Network Beliefs and Behavior with Peer Effects

Promit K. Chaudhuri, Matthew O. Jackson, Sudipta Sarangi +1

Individuals often act without knowing the full structure of the social network in which they are or will be embedded. We study how an individual's beliefs about their networks shap…

q-fin.RM2020

Systemic Risk in Financial Networks: A Survey

Matthew O. Jackson, Agathe Pernoud

We provide an overview of the relationship between financial networks and systemic risk. We present a taxonomy of different types of systemic risk, differentiating between direct e…

econ.GN2020★ 4 cited

The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets

Lukas Bolte, Nicole Immorlica, Matthew O. Jackson

We study the consequences of job markets' heavy reliance on referrals. Referrals lead to more opportunities for workers to be hired, which lead to better matches and increased prod…