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v. 1A ISBN 9780444531872
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How can economists define social preferences and interactions?
Culture, familial beliefs, religion, and other sources contain the origins of social preferences. Those preferences--the desire for social status, for instance, or the disinclination to receive financial support--often accompany predictable economic outcomes. Through the use of new economic data and tools, our contributors survey an array of social interactions and decisions that typify homo economicus. Their work brings order to the sometimes conflicting claims that countries, environments, beliefs, and other influences make on our economic decisions.
Table of Contents
Social Preferences
Nature and Nurture Effects On Children's Outcomes (Bruce Sacerdote)
Social Norms and Preferences (Andrew Postlewaite)
Preferences for Status: Evidence and Economic Implications (Ori Heffetz and Robert H. Frank)
Preferences for Redistribution (Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano)
Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action (Hanmign Fang and Andrea Moro)
Social Construction of Preferences: Advertising (Jess Benhabib and Alberto Bisin)
The Evolutionary Foundations of Preferences (Arthur J. Robson and Larry Samuelson)
Social Norms (Mary A. Burke and H. Peyton Young)
The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization (Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier)
Civic Capital as the Missing Link (Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales)
Does Culture Matter? (Raquel Fernandez)
Social Actions
An Overview of Social networks and Economic Applications (Matthew O. Jackson)
Local Interactions (Onur OEzgur)
Diffusion, Strategic Interaction, and Social Structure (Matthew O. jackson and Leeat Yariv)
Learning in Networks (Sanjeev Goyal)
Formation of Networks and Coalitions (Francis Block and Bhaskar Dutta)
Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete Resources (Tayfun Soenmez and M. Utku UEnver)
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v. 1B ISBN 9780444537072
Description
How do economists understand and measure normal social phenomena?
Identifying economic strains in activities such as learning, group formation, discrimination, and peer dynamics requires sophisticated data and tools as well as a grasp of prior scholarship. In this volume leading economists provide an authoritative summary of social choice economics, from norms and conventions to the exchange of discrete resources. Including both theoretical and empirical perspectives, their work provides the basis for models that can offer new insights in applied economic analyses.
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Peer and Neighborhood Effects
Identification of Social Interactions (Lawrence E. Blume, William A. Brock, Steven N. Durlauf, and Yannis M. Ioannides)
Econometric Methods for the Analysis of Assignmet Problems in the Presence of Complementarity and Social Spillovers (Bryan S. Graham)
Peer Effects in Education: A Survey of the Theory and Evidence (Dennis Epple and Richard E. Romano)
The Importance of Segregaion, Discrimination, Peer Dynamics, and Identity in Explaining Trends in the Racial Achievement Gap (Roland G. Fryer, Jr.)
Labor Markets and Referrals (Giorgio Topa)
Labor and Credit Networks in Developing Economies (Kaivan Munshi)
Risk Sharing Between Households (Marcel Fafchamps)
Neighborhood Effects and Housing (Yannis M. Ioannides)
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Description
How can economists define and measure social preferences and interactions?
Through the use of new economic data and tools, our contributors survey an array of social interactions and decisions that typify homo economicus. Identifying economic strains in activities such as learning, group formation, discrimination, and the creation of peer dynamics, they demonstrate how they tease out social preferences from the influences of culture, familial beliefs, religion, and other forces.
Table of Contents
Social Preferences
Cultural Transmission and Socialization. (A. Bisin and T. Verdier)
Social Construction of Preferences (J. Benhabib and A. Bisin)
Preferences for Status (R. Frank and Ori Heffetz)
Evolutionary Selection (A. Robson and L. Samuelson)
Nature and Nurture (B. Sacerdote)
Social Beliefs (A. Alesina and P. Giuliano)
Does Culture Matter? (R. Fernandez)
Social Capital (L. Guiso, P. Sapienza, L. Zingales)
Empirical Analysis of Social Interactions
Identification of Social Interactions (L. Blume, W. Brock, S. Durlauf, Y. Ioannides)
Neighborhood Effects and Housing (Y. Ioannides)
Peer and Neighborhood Effects in Education (D. Epple and R. Romano)
Labor Markets and Referrals (G. Topa)
Risk Sharing Among and Between Households (M. Fafchamps)
Credit and Labor Networks in Development (K. Munshi)
Econometric Methods for the Analysis of Assignment Problems in the Presence of Complimentary and Social Spillovers (B. Graham)
Social Actions
Norms, Customs, and Conventions (P. Young and M. Burke)
Social Norms and Social Assets (A. Postlewaite)
Local Interactions (O. Ozgur)
Group Formation and Local Interactions (S. Durlauf)
An Overview of Social Networks and their Analysis (M. Jackson)
Formation of Networks and Coalitions (F. Bloch and B. Dutta)
Diffusion, Strategic Interaction, Social Structure (M. Jackson and L. Yariv)
Herding (C. Chamley)
Learning in Social Networks (S. Goyal)
Experiments in Social Learning (S. Kariv)
Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete Resources (T. Sonmez & U. Unver)
Discrimination (G. Loury)
The Importance of Segregation, Discrimination, Peer Dynamics, and Identity in Explaining Trends (R. Fryer)
Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey (H. Fang and A. Moro)
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