The impact of participation policies on socioeconomic interactions.

pi建议研究平权行动如何影响群体之间的社会和经济网络结构。他们还将测量网络结构的变化如何反过来影响其他关键结果（例如，社会学习的速度或程度）。为了完成这两件事，他们将(i)进行家庭调查，以获取网络数据、态度和政治利用；（ii）将调查数据与过去的政治保留分配规则相匹配，研究信仰和社会网络结构如何响应宪法规定，以保护最弱势群体；（iii）进行实验，研究网络变化对一组成员向另一组成员传递信息意愿的影响。pi将研究政治保留对社会和经济网络结构的影响。保留被剥夺选举权的成员和妇女担任领导职务可能在几个方面影响该网络。保留会对态度产生积极或消极的影响，并影响保留群体在其社区成员处于领导地位时所能获得的资源。这些力量中的每一种都能影响维持、形成或切断跨群体联系的动机或意愿，这可能会对社会网络的整体结构产生影响。此外，由于社会网络是其他过程（如社会学习）发生的表面，平权行动影响网络结构的方式可能会产生深远的影响，影响个人对新机会（如工作）的了解程度。pi计划开发和估计一个简单的网络形成模型。接下来，他们将进行关于信息交换的实验，旨在衡量跨群体传递信息的阻力，以及这种阻力对平权行动的反应。最后，他们将进行一个实验来捕捉态度是如何影响求职的：接触平权行动是否会影响有关新工作机会的信息传播的程度？

The PIs propose to study how affirmative action influences the social and economic network structure between groups. They also will measure how the change in network structure in turn affects other key outcomes (e.g., speed or extent of social learning). To do both of these things they will (i) conduct household surveys to elicit network data, attitudes, and political utilization; (ii) match the survey data to past political reservation assignment rules to study how beliefs and social network structure change in response to constitutional provisions to protect the most disadvantaged groups; (iii) conduct experiments to study the impact of network change on the willingness of members of one group to pass information to members of the other group. The PIs will study the effect of political reservation on the structure of social and economic networks. Reservation of disfranchised members and women to positions of leadership could affect the network in several ways. Reservation can affect attitudes, either positively or negatively, and influence the resources the reserved group has access to when a member of its community is in a position of leadership. Each of these forces can affect the incentives or willingness to maintain, form or cut links across groups, which may then have effects on the overall structure of the social network. Further, since the social network is the surface on which other processes, such as social learning, takes place, the way affirmative action affects the network structure could have far-reaching implications, influencing how well individuals learn about new opportunities such as jobs. The PIs plan on developing and estimating a simple model of network formation. Next, they will conduct experiments about information exchange geared to measuring the resistance to passing information across groups and how that resistance responds to affirmative action exposure. Finally, they will conduct an experiment to capture how attitudes influence job search: does exposure to affirmative action influence the degree to which information about new job opportunities spreads?