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Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018

the environment of social networking sites hostile to many users. We conduct a novel experiment in a Facebook setting to … that participants exposed to civil Facebook interaction are significantly more trusting. In contrast, when the use of … Facebook is accompanied by the experience of online incivility, no significant changes occur in users' behavior. These results …

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Do they find you on Facebook? : Facebook profile picture and hiring chances

Baert, Stijn - 2015

We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring … Belgium. The only characteristic in which these candidates differ is the unique Facebook profile that can be found online with … their name. Candidates with the most beneficial Facebook picture obtain approximately 39% more job interview invitations …

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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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Daily use of social media is associated with more body dissatisfaction of teenage girls in a large cross-cultural survey

Napp, Clotilde; Breda, Thomas - 2022

between social media daily usage and body dissatisfaction among a sample of more than 50,000 15 y.o. students. This relation … is positive and large for girls - higher use of social networks is associated with higher dissatisfaction about their … girls' body dissatisfaction could be causal. …

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Corruption, norm violation and decay in social capital

Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016

The paper studies the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust), using data from a lab experiment. Subjects play either a harassment bribery game or a strategically identical but differently framed ultimatum game, followed by a trust game. In a second experiment, we elicit...

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The sequencing of gift exchange : a field trial

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017

There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how gift exchange should be organized if the principal's...

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A community based program promotes sanitation

Alzúa, Mará Laura; Djebbari, Habiba; Pickering, Amy J. - 2018

Basic sanitation facilities are still lacking in large parts of the developing world, engendering serious environmental health risks. Interventions commonly deliver in-kind or cash subsidies to promote private toilet ownership. In this paper, we assess an intervention that provides information...

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Touch thee not : group conflict, caste power, and untouchability in rural India

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Pal, Sarmistha - 2018

We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two-dimensional simultaneous group conflict over social norms, wherein an upper and backward (OBC) caste Hindu bloc contests the 'scheduled' castes (SCs) over the extent to which behavioural...

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Can patience account for subnational differences in student achievement? : regional analysis with Facebook interests

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - 2023

within-country disparities. We use social-media data - Facebook interests - to construct novel regional measures of patience …

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Laws, costs, norms, and learning : improving working conditions in developing countries

Brown, Drusilla K.; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Robertson, Raymond - 2016

Working conditions in developing countries, such as those associated with the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh, remain stubbornly low despite strict laws regulating hours, pay practices and occupational safety and health. Recent theoretic and empirical work suggests that norms and learning...

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