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Social Capital, Communication Channels and Opinion Formation

Mavridis, Christos - 2020

We study how different forms of social capital lead to different distributions of multidimensionalopinions by affecting the channels through which individuals communicate. We develop a model to compare and contrast the evolution of opinions between societies whose members communicate through...

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Social Capital and Public Goods

Leonard, Tammy - 2014

Previous literature suggests positive relationships between social capital, pro-social behavior and subsequent economic development. We analyze the relationship between social networks and trust (two measures of social capital) and self-reported charitable contributions of time and/or money...

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Gender Differences in Altruism on Mechanical Turk : Expectations and Actual Behaviour

Brañas-Garza, Pablo - 2018

Whether or not there are gender differences in altruistic behaviour in Dictator Game experiments has attracted … been challenged by more recent accounts, which have argued that gender differences in altruistic behaviour may be a … peculiarity of student samples and may not extend to other groups. Here we study gender differences in altruistic behaviour and …

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Gender Differences in the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off

Capraro, Valerio - 2019

Gender differences in human behaviour have attracted generations of social scientists, who have explored whether males … others. Yet, little is known about gender differences in the equity-efficiency trade-off. It has been suggested that females … opportunity to fill this gap. To this end, I analyse gender differences on a large dataset including all N=5,056 TOG decisions …

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Information acquisition and decision making in committees

Gerling, Kerstin; Grüner, Hans Peter; Kiel, Alexandra; … - 2003

This is a survey on the recent game theoretic literature on committee decision making. We consider theoretical work on the role of (i) strategic voting, (ii) costly information acquisition, (iii) conflicting interests, and (iv) communication in committees. Moreover, we review recent experimental...

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Committees and special interests

Felgenhauer, Mike; Grüner, Hans Peter - 2003

Some committees convene behind closed doors while others publicly discuss issues and make their decisions. This paper studies the role of open and closed committee decision making in presence of external influence. We show that restricting the information of interest groups may reduce the bias...

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Uncertainty and the politics of employment protection

Vindigni, Andrea (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the role that idiosyncratic uncertainty plays in shaping social preferences over the degree of labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves over time as a Geometric Brownian motion. A key result...

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Arrow's impossibility theorem : two simple single-profile versions

Feldman, Allan (contributor); Serrano, Roberto (contributor) - 2008

In this paper we provide two simple new versions of Arrow’s impossibility theorem, in a model with only one preference profile. Both versions are transparent, requiring minimal mathematical sophistication. The first version assumes there are only two people in society, whose preferences are...

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Procedural group identification

Dimitrov, Dinko (contributor); Sung, Shao Chin (contributor) - 2006

In this paper we axiomatically characterize two recursive procedures for defining a social group. The first procedure starts with the set of all individuals who are defined by everyone in the society as group members, while the starting point of the second procedure is the set of all individuals...

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Regrouping of endowments in exchange markets with indivisible goods

Dimitrov, Dinko (contributor); … - 2005

In this paper we are interested in efficient and individually rational exchange rules for markets with heterogeneous indivisible goods that exclude the possibility that an agent benefits by regrouping goods in her initial endowment. We present a suitable environment in which the existence of...

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