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What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational practices? We explore this …
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The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of … fields of economics – should not be described as such. Adopting this definition can improve incentives for researchers …
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The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others – are exophobic – or because they favor their own kind – are endophilic? This difference matters, as the...
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The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number of documents written about different topics? We propose, based on the premise that the occurrence of a phenomenon increases the likelihood that people write about it, that the...
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. Recently economists' assumption of rational actors has come under sustained attack. Behavioural economics has suggested that …
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We explore the influence of social norms on behavior. To do so, we introduce a method for identifying norms, based on … the property that social norms reflect social consensus regarding the appropriateness of different possible behaviors. We … demonstrate that the norms we elicit, along with a simple model combining concern for norm-compliance with utility for money …
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social norms. We describe a model, incorporating institutional features of the German labour market, which explicitly allows … according effects which restrict freeriding. The impact of social norms tends to increase with net union density. Hence …
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, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and their behavioral correlates. Standard survey questions … coordination games in the first experiment. We use the results of this experiment to identify the actual ethical norms for … expectations of their corporate leaders and the beliefs of corporate leaders about financial adviser norms. In addition, we ask …
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This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
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We exploit time use data from Denmark and the United States to examine the impact institutions and social norms have on … social norms in Denmark will mitigate the impact standard economic power measures have upon couples' time use. Further we …
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