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Information Cascades and Social Learning [PDF]
Social Science Research Network, 2021 Social learning is the updating of beliefs based on observation of others. Such observation can lead to efficient aggregation of information, but also to inaccurate decisions, fragility of mass behaviors, and, in the case of information cascades, to ...
S. Bikhchandani +3 more
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Social Science Research Network, 2023 This paper analyses the Relative Age Effect (RAE) in German elite youth soccer academies. We examine the efficiency of talent selection and the returns to training.
Lukas Tohoff, M. Mechtel
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Rationalization of Indecisive Choice Behavior by Majoritarian Ballots [PDF]
Social Science Research Network, 2022 We describe a model that explains possibly indecisive choice behavior, that is, quasi-choices (choice correspondences that may be empty on some menus). The justification is here provided by a proportion of ballots, which are quasi-choices rationalizable ...
J. Alcantud +3 more
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Initiating free-flow communication in trust games
Frontiers in Behavioral Economics, 2023 Theory suggests a first-mover advantage in many strategic bargaining situations, yet often the first to make an offer is not the first to communicate.
Emmanuel Dechenaux +4 more
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Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies [PDF]
The American Economic Review, 2021 This paper concerns Saez and Stantcheva’s (2016) generalized social marginal welfare weights, which aggregate losses and gains due to tax policies while incorporating nonutilitarian ethical considerations. The approach evaluates local tax changes without
I. Sher
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Policy Experimentation in Committees: A Case against Veto Rights under Redistributive Constraints
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2021 We study optimal policy experimentation by a committee. We consider a dynamic bargaining game in which committee members choose either a risky reform or a safe alternative each period.
Vincent Anesi, T. R. Bowen
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Political Competition with Endogenous Party Formation and Citizen Activists
Social Science Research Network, 2022 This paper studies the effects of endogenous party formation on political platforms. It develops a model in which parties allow like-minded citizens to, first, share the cost of running in a public election and, second, coordinate on a policy platform ...
Emanuel Hansen
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Social Science Research Network, 2022 * Over the past decade, organized labor has played a significant role in advocating for minimum wage increases. In this paper, we investigate the effects of minimum wage increases on union membership among individuals in minimum wage intensive industries.
Jeffrey Clemens, M. Strain
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Quels facteurs expliquent la faible coopération en horticulture ?
Revue économiqueCet article étudie le comportement des horticulteurs face à l’urgence de coopérer pour mener des actions collectives. Ces dernières existent, mais sont souvent le résultat d’opérations ponctuelles. Lors d’un jeu du bien public, dans une enquête rémunérée
S. Blondel, Ngoc-Thao Noet
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Teamwork as a Self-Disciplining Device
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2017 We show that team formation can serve as an implicit commitment device to overcome problems of self-control. If individuals have present-biased preferences, effort that is costly today but rewarded at some later point in time is too low from the ...
Matthias Fahn, Hendrik Hakenes
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