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Gompers, Paul - 2012

This paper explores two broad questions on collaboration between individuals. First, we investigate what personal characteristics affect people's desire to work together. Second, given the influence of these personal characteristics, we analyze whether this attraction enhances or detracts from...

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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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The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa

Nunn, Nathan - 2009

We investigate the historical origins of mistrust within Africa. Combining contemporary household survey data with historic data on slave shipments, we show that individuals whose ancestors were heavily raided during the slave trade today exhibit less trust in neighbors, relatives, and their...

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Supply and Demand for Discrimination : Strategic Revelation of Own Characteristics in a Trust Game

Heyes, Anthony - 2016

There is a large and diverse body of evidence that people condition their behavior on the characteristics of others. If type is visible then one agent seeing another with whom they are interacting, or observing some other close proxy for type, can affect outcomes. We explore the economics of...

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Self-Confidence and Social Interactions

Benabou, Roland - 2000

his self confidence. We first study situations where an informed principal chooses an incentive structure, such as …

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Economic Analysis of Social Interactions

Manski, Charles F. - 2000

rigor of modern economic analysis. Major theoretical developments in game theory, the economics of the family, and … endogenous growth theory have taken place. Economists have also performed new empirical research on social interactions, but the … empirical literature does not show progress comparable to that achieved in economic theory. This paper examines why and …

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A Theory of Social Interactions

Becker, Gary S. - 1974

This essay incorporates a general treatment of social interactions into the modern theory of consumer demand. Section 1 …

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Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models with Social Interactions

Bhattacharya, Debopam - 2019

Many real-life settings of consumer-choice involve social interactions, causing targeted policies to have spillover-effects. This paper develops novel empirical tools for analyzing demand and welfare-effects of policy-interventions in binary choice settings with social interactions. Examples...

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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

This paper uses a variety of individual-level survey data from several countries to test for interactions between subjective well-being at different ages and variables measuring the nature and quality of the social context at work, at home, and in the community. While earlier studies have found...

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Information and the Acquisition of Social Network Connections

Barsbai, Toman - 2020

How do information interventions affect individual efforts to expand social networks? We study a randomized controlled trial of a program providing information on settling in the U.S. for new immigrants from the Philippines. Improved information leads new immigrants to acquire fewer new social...

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