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In-group cooperation in a hostile environment : an economic perspective on some aspects of Jewish life in (pre-modern) diaspora
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to conversions; and, ii) early urbanization. Until now, these features have been analyzed as primarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411192
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Social norms in networks
Ushchev, Philip; Zenou, Yves - 2019
Although the linear-in-means model is the workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects, its theoretical properties are understudied. In this study, we develop a social-norm model that provides a micro foundation of the linear-in-means model and investigate its properties. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133030
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Social norms in networks
Ushchev, Philip; Zenou, Yves - 2019
Although the linear-in-means model is the workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects, its theoretical properties are understudied. In this study, we develop a social-norm model that provides a microfoundation of the linear-in-means model and investigate its properties. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133891
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In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment : An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2021
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to conversions; and, ii) early urbanization. Until now, these features have been analyzed as primarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320560
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The optimal size for a minority
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2001
We investigate a setting in which members of a population, bifurcated into a majority and a minority, transact with randomly matched partners. All members are uniformly altruistic, and each transaction can be carried out cooperatively or through a market mechanism, with cooperative transactions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401110
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Endogenous Hierarchies Under Representational Concerns
Chatterjee, Debipriya - 2013
? Employers, facing a population of agents who can be distinguished by their productivity and identity, seek to assign them to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092317
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On the Evolution of Norms in Strategic Environments
Della Lena, Sebastiano - 2019
In a heterogeneous population divided into two cultural groups, we investigate the intergenerational dynamics of norms, modeled as preferences over actions, as depending on strategic environments. We find that environments with strategic complementarity or substitutability lead to different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868106
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A Political Reciprocity Mechanism
Pongou, Roland - 2020
This paper considers the problem faced by a political authority that has to design a legislative mechanism that guarantees the selection of policies that are stable, efficient, and inclusive in the sense of strategically protecting minority interests. Experimental studies suggest that some of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012850001
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Discrimination in Strategic Settings
Duell, Dominik - 2016
identity-based discrimination. We find that when principals use the sanctioning tools at their disposal in an outcome … share a social identity; when principals have no access to sanctioning tools or have access to them but do not use them to … reward higher outcomes, their beliefs about agents' effort are not contingent on sharing agents' social identity. In a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983570
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Trust towards migrants
Gandelman, Néstor; Lamé, Diego - 2021
Using a standard trust game, we elicit trust and reciprocity measures in a representative sample of adult players in Montevideo, the capital city of Uruguay, a country that exhibits relatively better levels of tolerance towards migrants than other Latin American countries. We find no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012628842