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Persuading Investors : A Video-Based Study
Hu, Allen; Ma, Song - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Persuasive communication functions not only through content but also delivery, e.g., facial expression, tone of voice …
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Blue Spoons : Sparking Communication About Appropriate Technology Use
Chandrasekhar, Arun G.; Duflo, Esther; Kremer, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
forums to share information and higher returns to technology should both spur social transmission. We design a large … this new technology. The core idea of the model is that not all information is reliable, and farmers are reluctant to … develop a reputation of passing along false information. The model and data suggest that there is value in developing simple …
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The Determinants of Trust
Alesina, Alberto - 2000
Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors that reduce trust are: i) a recent history of traumatic experiences, even though the passage of time reduces this effect...
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On the Dynamics of Human Behavior : The Past, Present, and Future of Culture, Conflict, and Cooperation
Nunn, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
(socially-learned information) and tradition (transmission of culture across generations). Decision-making that relies on …
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Social and Financial Incentives for Overcoming a Collective Action Problem
Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab; Guiteras, Raymond; Levinsohn, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Addressing public health externalities often requires community-level collective action. Each person's sanitation behavior can affect the health of neighbors. We report on a cluster randomized controlled trial conducted with 19,000 households in rural Bangladesh where we randomized (1) either...
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy Reduces Crime and Violence over 10 Years : Experimental Evidence
Blattman, Christopher; Chaskel, Sebastian; Jamison, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In most societies, a small number of people commit the most serious violence. Short-term studies have shown that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can reduce such antisocial behaviors. These behavior changes may be temporary, however, especially from therapy on its own. This is unsettled,...
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Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior
Le Rossignol, Etienne; Lowes, Sara; Nunn, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
either a strong or weak belief in witchcraft, and this information is known by the players. We find that participants act …
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School Effects on Socio-emotional Development, School-Based Arrests, and Educational Attainment
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2020
Using value-added models, we find that high schools impact students' self-reported socioemotional development (SED) by enhancing social well-being and promoting hard work. Conditional on schools' test score impacts, schools that improve SED reduce school-based arrests, and increase high-school...
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The Economic Value of Breaking Bad : Misbehavior, Schooling and the Labor Market
Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2019
Prevailing research argues that childhood misbehavior in the classroom is bad for schooling and, presumably, bad for labor market outcomes. In contrast, we argue that some childhood misbehavior represents underlying socio-emotional skills that are valuable in the labor market. We follow work...
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Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19
Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020
Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave of attention to the issue of inequality within criminal justice. However, many public health officials have warned that mass protests could lead to a reduction in social...
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