Gender Homophily across Types of Social Networks in Rural India

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Abstract: In this paper, I search for evidence that women in 75 Indian villages are somehow constrained in their ability to make instrumental social connections necessary to start or run businesses. I compare gender homophily across ten different types of social networks, and find it to be relatively high in both genders and in most all of networks. It appears that both genders are similarly discouraged from relationships with people of the other gender, but less so when there is a transaction involved than when the association is entirely social in nature. Women in higher castes do not appear to be any more constrained than their lower caste counterparts. There is evidence that a homosocial norm discourages other-gender relationships, but it appears to be uniformly enforced across groups.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2010

Author	Teter, Claire
Primary advisor	Jackson, Matthew
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Economics

Subject	Stanford Department of Economics
Subject	informal credit
Subject	gender preference
Subject	homosocial norm
Subject	social network formation
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/dz687jp8386

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Preferred Citation: Teter, Claire. (2010). Gender Homophily across Types of Social Networks in Rural India. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/dz687jp8386

Stanford University, Department of Economics, Honors Theses

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