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Gender and culture
Giuliano, Paola - 2020
This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force participation, and performance in mathematics, amongst many others) show remarkable differences across countries and tend to persist over time. The economics literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267026
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Social change
Greenwood, Jeremy (contributor); Guner, Nezih (contributor) - 2008
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716525
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Identity, dignity and taboos : beliefs as assets
Bénabou, Roland (contributor); Tirole, Jean (contributor) - 2007
We analyze social and economic phenomena involving beliefs which people value and invest in, for affective or functional reasons. Individuals are at times uncertain about their own "deep values" and infer them from their past choices, which then come to define who they areʺ. Identity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003529738
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Family social norms and child labor
Katav-Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2021
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793312
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Community norms and organizational practices : the legitimization of wage arrears in Russia, 1992 - 1999
Earle, John S. (contributor); Spicer, Andrew (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001906784
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Fighting climate change: the role of norms, preferences, and moral values
Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand Chopra, Felix; … - 2021
We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change - as measured through an incentivized donation decision - is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583671
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The sociology of groups and the economics of incentives : theory and evidence on compensation systems
Encinosa, William E. (contributor);  … - 2005
When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the … group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze how group sociology influences physician …, but the relationship is complex. No single aspect of group sociology is entirely consistent with all the patterns in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287624
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Extremism within the family
Epstein, Gil S. (contributor) - 2006
adulthood. We develop a theory that suggests that parents will chose extreme ethnic and social traits in order to increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003344609
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Understanding compulsory schooling legislation : a formal model and implications for empirical analysis
Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Justman, Moshe - 2009
We construct a simple model of compulsory schooling in which legislation and compliance are endogenously determined by individuals disciplined by social norms, optimizing their voting decisions and the school attendance of their children. The model provides a formal framework for interpreting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898598
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Social norms and economic incentives in firms
Huck, Steffen; Kübler, Dorothea; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2010
This paper studies the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We introduce a general framework to model social norms arguing that norms stem from agents' desire for, or peer pressure towards, social efficiency. In a simple model of team production we examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154576