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Group Identity and Social Preferences
, 2009We present a laboratory experiment that measures the effects of induced group identity on social preferences. We find that when participants are matched with an ingroup member, they show a 47 percent increase in charity concerns and a 93 percent decrease
Yan Chen, S. Li
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Naïve Learning in Social Networks and the Wisdom of Crowds
, 2010We study learning in a setting where agents receive independent noisy signals about the true value of a variable and then communicate in a network. They naively update beliefs by repeatedly taking weighted averages of neighbors' opinions.
B. Golub, M. Jackson
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Student Performance, Peer Effects, and Friend Networks: Evidence from a Randomized Peer Intervention
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023We estimate the effects of an educational peer intervention in which previously high- and low-achieving students are randomly paired as deskmates in elementary schools in China.
Jia Wu, Junsen Zhang, Chunchao Wang
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Uncovering Peer Effects in Social and Academic Skills
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023This paper studies the impact of adolescent peers who are central in their social network on the formation of social skills and academic performance of fellow students.
R. Zárate
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From Extreme to Mainstream: The Erosion of Social Norms
The American Economic Review, 2020Social norms, usually persistent, can change quickly when new public information arrives, such as a surprising election outcome. People may become more inclined to express views or take actions previously perceived as stigmatized and may judge others ...
Leonardo Bursztyn +9 more
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Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality
Journal of Economic Literature, 2022This article provides an overview of the origins and development of stratification economics as a subfield that centers the importance of identity, social ranking, and relative group position.
W. Darity
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Historical Lynchings and the Contemporary Voting Behavior of Blacks
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022This paper analyzes the extent to which the political participation of Blacks can be traced to historical lynchings that took place from 1882 to 1930.
Joseph Williams
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Social Science Research Network
We propose a model of strategic experimentation on social networks in which forward-looking agents learn from their own and neighbors’ successes. In equilibrium, private discovery is followed by social diffusion.
Simon Board, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn
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We propose a model of strategic experimentation on social networks in which forward-looking agents learn from their own and neighbors’ successes. In equilibrium, private discovery is followed by social diffusion.
Simon Board, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn
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Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa
The American Economic ReviewWe study how social organization shapes patterns of economic interaction and the effects of national policy, focusing on the distinction between age-based and kin-based groups in sub-Saharan Africa. Motivated by ethnographic accounts suggesting that this
Jacob Moscona, A. Seck
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Social Connectedness and Information Markets
American Economic Journal: MicroeconomicsThis paper investigates information quality in a simple model of socially connected information markets. Suppliers’ payoffs derive from the fraction of consumers who see their stories.
R. Kranton, David McAdams
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