Will social networks become less important

作者：Yu, Xiao; Wang, Xuelong^*

来源：Applied Economics Letters, 2018, 25(16): 1117-1120.

DOI：10.1080/13504851.2017.1400643

• Social network
• high (low)-income class
• function endogeneity
• formal institutions

This letter finds that the social networks are more important for the high-income class, and less important for the low-income class on income increases. Thus, research on the economic influence of social networks should notice the endogeneity of the social network functions of different classes.

• 出版日期2018
• 单位中央民族大学; 深圳大学