young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …

, leading to status consumption and wasteful gift giving. The screening activity is costly not only for the potential husband … money") benefits the candidate but also the woman, and reduces wasteful status consumption spending. Also, aging and …

mediation from social status. This effect persists seven and thirteen years later (wave 3 and 4 of the data). Indeed, the …

In a laboratory experiment we test the interaction effects of status and group identity on interpersonal trust. Natural … group identity is generated by school affiliation. Status (expert or agent) is awarded based on relative performance in a … the disadvantaged group that nevertheless achieve the status of expert) trust less both in-group and out-group trustees …

This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent … exogenously vary relative status in the realm of sexual attractiveness. In three between-subject conditions, the assigned other … subject is either of higher, lower or equal status. The incidence of electric shocks is substantially higher among subjects …

Reputation systems aim to induce honest behavior in online trade by providing information about past conduct of users …. Online reputation, however, is not directly connected to a person, but only to the virtual identity of that person. Users can … therefore shed a negative reputation by creating a new account. We study the effects of such identity changes on the efficiency …

reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public …

In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in … reputation, we find that good-reputation employers attract work of the same quality but at twice the rate as bad-reputation … employers. This is the first clean, field evidence on the value of employer reputation. It can serve as collateral against …

In the context of a global security framework that mitigates interstate conflicts, nation-states establish a reputation … corroborates the role of reputation-building through co-ethnicity narratives as a determinant of sponsor state engagement. We argue …