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Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives
Babcock, Philip - 2011
This paper estimates social effects of incentivizing people in teams. In two field experiments featuring exogenous team … formation and opportunities for repeated social interactions, we find large team effects that operate through social channels …. The team compensation system induced agents to choose effort as if they valued a marginal dollar of compensation for their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461970
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A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2006
This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one's group is partly determined by group-specific investments made by individuals. I prove three main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466301
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A Roy Model of Social Interactions
Cicala, Steve - 2011
We develop a Roy model of social interactions in which individuals sort into peer groups based on comparative advantage. Two key results emerge: First, when comparative advantage is the guiding principle of peer group organization, the effect of moving a student into an environment with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461780
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Supply and Demand for Discrimination : Strategic Revelation of Own Characteristics in a Trust Game
Heyes, Anthony - 2016
, can affect outcomes. We explore the economics of revealing type in a simple laboratory experiment to learn about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456720
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An Empirical Model for Strategic Network Formation
Christakis, Nicholas A. - 2010
We develop and analyze a tractable empirical model for strategic network formation that can be estimated with data from a single network at a single point in time. We model the network formation as a sequential process where in each period a single randomly selected pair of agents has the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462613
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Neighbors Matter : Causal Community Effects and Stock Market Participation
Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2007
This paper establishes a causal relation between an individual's decision of whether to own stocks and average stock market participation decision of the individual's community. We instrument for the average ownership of an individual's community with lagged average ownership of the states in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465485
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Social Interactions with Endogenous Associations
Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2007
This paper develops a model of social interactions with endogenous association. People are assumed to invest in relationships to maximize their utility. Even in a linear-in-means model, when associations are endogenous, the effect of macro-group composition on behavior is non-linear and varies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465616
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Homophily, Group Size, and the Diffusion of Political Information in Social Networks : Evidence from Twitter
Halberstam, Yosh - 2014
In this paper, we investigate political communications in social networks characterized both by homophily-a tendency to associate with similar individuals-and group size. To generate testable hypotheses, we develop a simple theory of information diffusion in social networks with homophily and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457985
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Extremism and Social Learning
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2007
When members of deliberating groups speak with one another, their predeliberation tendencies often become exacerbated as their views become more extreme. The resulting phenomenon -- group polarization -- has been observed in many settings, and it bears on the actions of juries, administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464959
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Understanding Social Interactions : Evidence from the Classroom
De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2013
Little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior commonly observed in the data. We present a model where agents can interact according to three distinct mechanisms, and we derive testable implications which allow us to distinguish between the...
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