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Helliwell, John F. - 2010

This paper uses data from global and Canadian surveys data to estimate the powerful linkages between social connections, their related social identities, and subjective well-being. Our explanatory variables include several measures of the extent and frequency of use of social networks, combined...

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Social Capital as Good Culture

Guiso, Luigi; Zingales, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola - 2021

To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation …

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Social Capital and Labor Market Networks

Asquith, Brian - 2019

We explore the links between social capital and labor market networks at the neighborhood level. We harness rich data taken from multiple sources, including matched employer-employee data with which we measure the strength of labor market networks, data on behavior such as voting patterns that...

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Popularity

Conti, Gabriella - 2012

What makes you popular at school? And what are the labor market returns to popularity? We investigate these questions using an objective measure of popularity derived from sociometric theory: the number of friendship nominations received from schoolmates, interpreted as a measure of early...

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Aiming for the Goal : Contribution Dynamics of Crowdfunding

Deb, Joyee - 2019

We study reward-based crowdfunding campaigns, a new class of dynamic contribution games where consumption is exclusive. Two types of backers participate: buyers want to consume the product while donors just want the campaign to succeed. The key tension is one of coordination between buyers,...

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Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis

Liu, Meng - 2018

Digital platforms like Uber can enhance market transparency and mitigate moral hazard via ratings of buyers and sellers, real-time monitoring, and low-cost complaint channels. We compare driver choices at Uber with taxis by matching trips so they are subject to the same optimal route. We also...

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Peer-to-Peer Markets

Einav, Liran - 2015

Peer-to-peer markets such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb allow small suppliers to compete with traditional providers of goods or services. We view the primary function of these markets as making it easy for buyers to find sellers and engage in convenient, trustworthy transactions. We discuss elements...

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Effects of the Price of Charitable Giving : Evidence from an Online Crowdfunding Platform

Meer, Jonathan - 2014

A long literature has examined the effects of the price of giving - that is, the amount an in-dividual must give for one dollar to accrue to the charitable activity itself - on donative behavior. We use data from DonorsChoose.org, an online platform linking teachers with prospective donors, that...

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History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms

Acemoglu, Daron - 2011

We study the evolution of the social norm of "cooperation" in a dynamic environment. Each agent lives for two periods … completely drives equilibrium play, leading to a social norm of high or low cooperation. In intermediate cases, the impact of … leverage their greater visibility to influence expectations of future agents and overturn social norms of low cooperation. We …

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Ode to the Sea : Workplace Organizations and Norms of Cooperation

Gneezy, Uri - 2014

The functioning and well-being of any society and organization critically hinges on norms of cooperation that regulate …

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