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March, Christoph; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - 2016

We report two information cascade game experiments that directly test the impact of altruism on observational learning. Participants interact in two parallel sequences, the observed and the unobserved sequence. Only the actions of the observed entail informational benefits to subsequent...

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Eliciting motives for trust and reciprocity by attitudinal and behavioural measures

Farina, Francesco; O'Higgins, Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Finanza e Sviluppo … - 2008

The intention to “invest” in the Trust Game in extensive form revealed by a move could conceal different motivations … embedded in the trust game: 1) an “investment” motive - conditional cooperation is a way to express the expectation of … measures of trust and trustworthiness. In this paper, we will then be using the “words” of answers to a questionnaire in order …

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Conformism, Social Norms and the Dynamics of Assimilation

Olcina, Gonzalo; Panebianco, Fabrizio; Zenou, Yves - 2018

We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relationships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...

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Social norms and naïve beliefs

Patel, Amrish; Cartwright, Edward - 2009

In this paper we analyse the effect that naïve agents (those who take behavior at 'face value') have on the nature of social norms. After reviewing the use of signalling models to model conformity, we argue in favour of modelling naïve inferences in tandem with standard Bayes rational...

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Globalization, female employment, and regional differences in OECD countries

Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries,...

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Naïve Beliefs and the Multiplicity of Social Norms

Patel, Amrish; Cartwright, Edward - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

In a signalling model of conformity, we demonstrate that naïve observers, those that take actions at face value, constrain the set of actions that can possibly be social norms. With rational observers many actions can be norms, but with naïve observers only actions close to that preferred by...

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Instilling Norms in a Turmoil of Spillovers

Funcke, Alexander - Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of … - 2015

Social norms and conventions have formally been defined as pertaining to static sets of situations. In this paper, we introduce a slight variation of Cristina Bicchieri's definition, where the set of situations is dynamically determined by previous actions. To suggest how the definition may be...

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Social Norms and Naive Beliefs

Patel, Amrish; Cartwright, Edward - School of Economics, University of Kent - 2009

In this paper we analyse the effect that naive agents (those who take behaviour at "face value") have on the nature of social norms. After reviewing the use of signalling models to model conformity, we argue in favour of modelling naive inferences in tandem with standard Bayes rational...

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Silent networks : the role of inaccurate beliefs in reducing useful social interactions

Jain, Ronak; Khandelwal, Vatsal - 2024

Inaccurate beliefs about social norms can reduce useful social interactions and adversely affect an individual's ability to deal with negative shocks. We implement a randomized controlled trial with low-income workers in urban India who lack access to formal financial and healthcare support. We...

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Egalitarianism : an evolutionary perspective

Bagnoli, Lindia; Negroni, Giorgio - 2013

Two parties bargaining over a pie, the size of which is determined by their previous investment decisions. Investment costs are heterogeneous. The bargaining rule is sensitive to investment behavior. Two games are studied which differ for the considered sociopolitical structure: communal...

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