The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If …

credibility (or lack-of-trust) problem for monetary policy. This indicates a possible and until now unexplored link between social …

We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics …

negative relationship: social ties (or networks), inference on social relationships (to see inequality as a signal of … untrustworthy behavior), conflicts over resources, and opportunity cost of time. Social ties receive the strongest empirical support …, but there is also some evidence in favor of inference on social relationships. Conflicts over resources and opportunity …

friends with other criminals by learning and acquiring proper know-how on the crime business. By taking the social network …

which later cause their children to experience guilt or shame associated with failure to support themselves. While social …