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Viral Altruism? Generosity and Social Contagion in Online Networks
Lacetera, Nicola - 2015
How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates donations while broadcasting donors' activities to their contacts. We find that broadcasting is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033512
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The Role of Social Networks in Cultural Assimilation
Verdier, Thierry - 2015
We develop a model where, in the first stage, minority individuals have to decide whether or not they want to assimilate to the majority culture while, in the second stage, all individuals (both from the majority and the minority group) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015014
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Social Networks
de Martí, Joan - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153178
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Perception of Corruption and Public Support for Redistribution in Latin America
Hauk, Esther - 2017
This paper studies the relationship between people's beliefs about the quality of their institutions, as measured by corruption perceptions, and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Our empirical study is guided by a theoretical model which introduces taxes into Foellmi and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952596
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Public Opinion on Immigration in Europe : Preference versus Salience
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2017
There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the … of public opinion move differently over time and in response to different macro-level variables. The results suggest that … both dimensions need to be taken into account when assessing the overall climate of public opinion towards immigration …
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Does Education Affect Attitudes Towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany
Margaryan, Shushanik - 2018
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting the staggered implementation of a compulsory schooling reform in West Germany, this article finds that an additional year of schooling lowers the probability of being very concerned about immigration to Germany by around six...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906492
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Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Representative Evidence from Survey Experiments
Grigorieff, Alexis - 2016
We study whether providing information about immigrants affects people's attitude towards them. First, we use a large representative cross-country experiment to show that, when people are told the share of immigrants in their country, they become less likely to state that there are too many of...
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Do Politicians Change Public Attitudes?
Carlsson, Magnus - 2016
A large theoretical and empirical literature explores whether politicians and political parties change their policy positions in response to voters' preferences. This paper asks the opposite question: do political parties affect public attitudes on important policy issues? Problems of reverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979445
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Intergenerational Correlations of Extreme Right-Wing Party Preferences and Attitudes Toward Immigration
Avdeenko, Alexandra - 2015
This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014044
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Public Opinion, Racial Bias, and Labor Market Outcomes
Majlesi, Kaveh; Prina, Silvia; Sullivan, Paul - 2022
The effect of negative shifts in public opinion on the economic lives of minorities is unknown. We study the role of … racial bias in the U.S. labor market by investigating sudden changes in public opinion about Asians following the anti … unemployed afterwards. Consistent with a role for public opinion affecting labor market outcomes, we find that the effects are …
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