This paper studies the spread of compliance behavior in neighborhood networks involving over 500,000 households in Austria. We exploit random variation from a field experiment which varied the content of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. Our data reveal a strong treatment...

Gender differences in networking have been cited as one of the main reasons for gender earnings and promotion gaps. Despite this fact there is little evidence on whether such differences exist or what they look like. We conduct an experiment to gain insight into these questions. The experiment...

We analyse belief formation in social networks in a laboratory experiment. Our 3 x 3 design varies the network structure and the amount of information agents have about it. Agents observe an imperfect private signal on the true state of the world and then repeatedly guess the true state,...