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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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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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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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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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, 2010 This paper develops a new method to uncover the causal effect of trust on economic growth by focusing on the inherited component of trust and its time variation.
Y. Algan, Pierre Cahuc
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Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft
Social Science Research Network, 2023 Is dishonest behavior contagious? We answer this question by studying whether corruption scandals affect the propensity of supermarket customers to steal while using a self-service checkout system.
G. Gulino, Federico Masera
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, 2006 We analyze the consequences of control on motivation in an experimental principalagent game, where the principal can control the agent by implementing a minimum performance requirement before the agent chooses a productive activity. Our results show that
A. Falk, M. Kosfeld
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