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The behavioral, economic, and political impact of the internet and social media : empirical challenges and approaches

Sabatini, Fabio - 2023

This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...

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Men vote in Mars, women vote in Venus : a survey experiment in the field

Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2013

This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. During the 2011 municipal elections in Milan, a sample of eligible voters was randomly divided into three groups. Two were exposed to the same incumbent's campaign but to...

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Persuasion and gender : experimental evidence from two political campaigns

Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2016

This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. We implemented a survey experiment during the (mixed gender) electoral race for mayor in Milan (2011), and a field experiment during the (same gender) electoral race for...

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Subjective evaluations : discretionary bonuses and feedback credibility

Fuchs, William - 2013

worker and a firm and subjective evaluations by the principal, bonuses are useful in order to make the feedback from the firm …

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The distinct impact of information and incentives on cheating

Bénistant, Julien; Galeotti, Fabio; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2021

tournament. In this dynamic setting we test (i) whether giving continuous feedback (vs. final ex post feedback) on the opponent … tournament. Continuous feedback on the counterpart's reports increases cheating under the piece-rate scheme but not in a … competitive setting. Our results provide new insights on the role that feedback plays on cheating behavior in dynamic settings …

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A constitutional theory of the family

Cigno, Alessandro (contributor) - 2005

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...

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Spillover effects of institutions on cooperative behavior, preferences and beliefs

Englmaier, Florian; Riedl, Arno; Weber, Roberto A. - 2017

Institutions are an important means for fostering prosocial behaviors, but in many contexts their scope is limited and they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We use a laboratory experiment to study how the presence and nature of an institution that enforces prosocial behavior...

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Social norms, endogenous sorting and the culture of cooperation

Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2018

Throughout human history, informal sanctions played a key role in the enforcement of social norms and the provision of public goods. However, a considerable body of evidence suggests that informal peer sanctions often cause large efficiency costs. This raises the question whether alternative...

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Creating an efficient culture of cooperation

Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2017

Throughout human history, informal sanctions by peers were ubiquitous and played a key role in the enforcement of social norms and the provision of public goods. However, a considerable body of evidence suggests that informal peer sanctions cause large collateral damage and efficiency costs....

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The effect of communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping

Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different...

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