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Culture Clash : Incompatible Reputation Mechanisms and Intergroup Conflict

Fouka, Vasiliki; Schläpfer, Alain - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

highlighting the role of reputation mechanisms in sustaining cooperation. Reputational concerns can deter defection in one … cooperation within a group, we show theoretically that interactions of individuals from a punishment-based culture with those from … a culture of image scoring can lead to widespread inter-group tensions. Mutual cooperation is a more likely outcome if …

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Homophily, Group Size, and the Diffusion of Political Information in Social Networks : Evidence from Twitter

Halberstam, Yosh - 2014

In this paper, we investigate political communications in social networks characterized both by homophily-a tendency to associate with similar individuals-and group size. To generate testable hypotheses, we develop a simple theory of information diffusion in social networks with homophily and...

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Competitive Job Seekers : When Sharing Less Leaves Firms at a Loss

Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study how job-seekers share information about jobs within their social network, and its implications for firms. We randomly increase the amount of competition for a job and find that job-seekers are: (i) less likely to share information about the job with their peers; and (ii) choose to...

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How Much is Social Capital Worth?

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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Friends with Benefits : Social Capital and Household Financial Behavior

Cannon, Brad; Hirshleifer, David; Thornton, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using friendship data from Facebook, we study the effects of three aspects of social capital on household financial behavior. We find that the most important measure of social capital in explaining stock market and saving participation is Economic Connectedness, defined as the fraction of one's...

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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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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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Social Interactions in Pandemics : Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity

Alfaro, Laura - 2020

In SIR models, infection rates are typically exogenous, whereas individuals adjust their behavior in reality. City-level data across the globe suggest that mobility falls in response to fear, proxied by Google searches. Incorporating experimentally validated measures of social preferences at the...

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Is There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes

Binder, Ariel J. - 2018

Building on standard marital matching models, we show that a variety of underlying social preferences about a given trait all generate positive assortative matching on that trait, and hence the same distribution of spousal trait differences in equilibrium. Applying this result to U.S. Census and...

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International Trade and Social Connectedness

Bailey, Michael - 2020

We use anonymized data from Facebook to construct a new measure of the pairwise social connectedness between 180 countries and 332 European regions. We find that two countries trade more with each other when they are more socially connected and when they share social connections with a similar...

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