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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
Social Science Research Network, 2007 This paper experimentally examines image motivation--the desire to be liked and well regarded by others--as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect on prosocial ...
D. Ariely, Anat Bracha, Stephan Meier
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Journal of Economic Literature, 2017 An ever-increasing share of human interaction, communication, and culture is recorded as digital text. We provide an introduction to the use of text as an input to economic research.
M. Gentzkow, B. Kelly, Matt Taddy
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The Welfare Effects of Social Media
The American Economic Review, 2019 The rise of social media has provoked both optimism about potential societal benefits and concern about harms such as addiction, depression, and political polarization.
Hunt Allcott +3 more
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Persuasion through Slanted Language: Evidence from the Media Coverage of Immigration
The American Economic Review, 2023 I study the persuasive effects of slanted language, exploiting a ban on the politically charged term “illegal immigrant” by the Associated Press (AP) news wire.
Milena Djourelova
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Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?
Social Science Research Network, 2023 How does identity influence economic behavior in the labor market? I investigate this question in rural India, focusing on the effect of caste identity on job-specific labor supply.
Suanna Oh
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From Outcome-Based to Language-Based Preferences [PDF]
Journal of Economic Literature, 2022 We review the literature on models that try to explain human behavior in social interactions described by normal-form games with monetary payoffs. We start by covering social and moral preferences.
V. Capraro, J. Halpern, M. Perc
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When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media
Social Science Research Network, 2023 Individuals might experience negative utility from not consuming a popular product. With such externalities to nonusers, standard consumer surplus measures, which take aggregate consumption as given, fail to appropriately capture consumer welfare.
Leonardo Bursztyn +3 more
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Reconciliation Narratives: The Birth of a Nation after the US Civil War
The American Economic Review, 2023 We study how the spread of the Lost Cause narrative—a revisionist and racist retelling of the US Civil War—shifted opinions and behaviors toward national reunification and racial discrimination against African Americans.
E. Esposito +3 more
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Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements
American Economic Review: Insights, 2021 We study the causes of sustained participation in political movements. To identify the persistent effect of protest participation, we randomly indirectly incentivize Hong Kong university students into participation in an antiauthoritarian protest.
Leonardo Bursztyn +12 more
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Cultural Distance and Ethnic Civil Conflict
Social Science Research NetworkEthnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict, while others do not? I show that civil conflict in Africa is explained by ethnic groups’ cultural distance to the central government: an increase in ...
Eleonora Guarnieri
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