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Constrained interactions and social coordination : conference paper

Staudigl, Mathias; Weidenholzer, Simon - 2013 - This version: May 2012

We consider a co-evolutionary model of social coordination and network formation where agents may decide on an action in a 2x2 - coordination game and on whom to establish costly links to. We find that a payoff dominant convention is selected for a wider parameter range when agents may only...

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Consequences of connection failure : centrality and the importance for cohesion ; conference paper

Belau-Garmann, Julia - 2014

This paper suggests a new approach for centrality measures for general (weighted) networks taking into account the importance for cohesion and relative power of connections. While existing literature either ignores the importance for cohesion or measures it by analyzing consequences arising from...

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Opinion dynamics and wisdom under conformity

Buechel, Berno; Hellmann, Tim; Klößner, Stefan - 2013

We present a model of opinion formation where individuals repeatedly engage in discussion and update their opinion in a social network similarly to the DeGroot model. Abstracting from the standard assumption that individuals always report their opinion truthfully, agents in our model may state...

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Simultaneous search and network efficiency : conference paper

Gautier, Pieter; Holzner, Christian - 2013

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a bipartite network. Coordination frictions arise if workers and firms only observe their own links. We show that those frictions and the wage mechanism are in general not independent. Only wage mechanisms that allow for ex post competition...

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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality? : conference paper

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2014 - November 11, 2013

We show that parental socioeconomic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The … facets of personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism that are important …'s initial conditions at birth, and family structure. Personality profiles that vary systematically with parental SES off er an …

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Like brother, like sister? : the importance of family background for cognitive and non-cognitive skills ; conference paper

Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2013

scores and measures of personality (locus of control, reciprocity, Big Five) for brothers and sisters. Using a Restricted …. Sibling correlations of personality traits range from 0.24 to 0.59, indicating that even for the lowest estimate, one fourth …

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The evaluation of start-up subsidies for the unemployed and the role of unobserved characteristics for matching estimators : conference paper

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2013 - Preliminary draft

entrepreneurs are different , e.g., with respect to personality traits, non-cognitive skills and risk preferences. Since most of the … process with and without usually unobserved personality characteristics and to examine the consequences for the estimated … neglecting personality traits in the program evaluation leads to slight over-estimation of the average treatment effects on the …

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