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We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...
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access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms of cooperation takes place via interpersonal relations, while … followed by a sudden burst, which means that a transition from a cooperative social norm to non-cooperation occurs …
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of a Prisoner's Dilemma game. When time preferences are heterogeneous and bounded away from one, how "much" cooperation … can be achieved by an ongoing group? How does group cooperation vary with the group's size and structure? For an arbitrary … distribution of discount factors, we characterize the maximal average co-operation (MAC) likelihood of this game. The MAC …
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Voters would be better off if they removed politicians offering low-quality government by pursuing populist policies and re-elected those who improved government quality with sustainable policies. In many political contexts, including those with free and fair elections, voters do the opposite....
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Exploiting a unique empirical setting, 1,000 vendors in 90 traditional food markets in Lima, we document that historic social ties among market founders are associated, decades later, with stricter formal (third party) enforcement of market rules, more collective action, and the greater...
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We study the stability properties of organizations in partition function games, describing cooperative situations with externalities. An organization is defined as a group of agents, together with a set of bilateral relations, formally, a connected graph. Because of the presence of...
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