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I used the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality to explore whether and to what extent reputation, measured as spotty … average. Results reveal that racial differences in reputation are relatively minor, and so these do little to explain why the … be assisted. This finding, however, can also be explained through a racial stigma framework. Finally, although reputation …
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Economic models of reputation make strong assumptions about the information available to players.  In particular, it is … observe in the real world.  We build a model of reputation with more realistic assumptions about the partial knowledge of the …
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This paper develops a model of career concerns. The worker's skill is revealed through output, wage is based on expected output, and so on assessed ability. Specifically, effort increases the probability that a skilled worker achieves a one-time breakthrough. Effort levels at different times are...
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-weighted information may be maximized by a different regime, in which all replying is anonymous. Reputation effects play a key role in our …
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We study a class of continuous-time reputation games between a large player and a population of small players in which …
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We enrich a simple two-person bargaining model by introducing "behavioral types" who concede more slowly than does the average person in the economy. The presence of behavioral types profoundly influences the choices of optimizing types. In equilibrium, concessions are calculated to induce...
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collective reputation with the wider membership of her cabinet; we show that heterogeneity of cabinet membership can play an …
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Functional theories of reputation imply that individuals’ reputations are tied to their history of behavior. However …, indirect evidence suggests that the link between reputation and behavior may be tenuous at best. In three studies we tracked …€™ reputations were linked to their history of behavior, but not strongly. However, the relation between reputation and behavior was …
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ones, then does an organization’s reputation also remain similarly bounded? We conceptualize reputation as an assessment of … an actor’s ability or quality, but in the circumscribed domain of an identified category. We hypothesize that reputation …
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changed at zero cost.  This paper examines the reputation mechanisms that keep this market working and considers whether they …
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