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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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Identity under scrutiny : media attention and rule compliance

Sardoschau, Sulin; Gulino, Giorgio; Masera, Federico - 2025

How does media coverage of minorities affect their rule compliance? Using data from 800,000 random audits at supermarket self-checkouts in Italy, we show that heightened refugee media coverage reduces under-reporting of items among shoppers born in major refugee-source countries, but not other...

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The cost of tolerating intolerance : right-wing protest and hate crimes

Sardoschau, Sulin; Casanueva-Artís, Annalí - 2025

Freedom of speech is central to democracy, but protests that amplify extremist views expose a critical trade-off between civil liberties and public safety. This paper investigates how right-wing demonstrations affect the incidence of hate crimes, focusing on Germany's largest far-right movement...

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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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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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