Capitale sociale e cooperazione
Letture essenziali
Costa, D., Kahn, M. (2003). Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War. Quarterly Journal of Economics. 118 (2): 519-548
What motivated men to risk death in the most horrific war in U.S. history when pay was low and...
Frey, B. S., Meier, S. (2004). Social Comparisons and Pro-social Behavior: Testing "Conditional Cooperation" in a Field Experiment. The American Economic Review 94 (5), 1717-1722
Many important activities, such as charitable giving, voting, and paying taxes, are difficult to...
Bénabou, R. J. M., Tirole, J. (2006). Incentives and Prosocial Behavior. American Economic Review 96 (5), 1652-1678
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and...
Letture importanti
Greif, A., Tabellini, G. (2012). The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe
Over the last millennium, the clan and the city have been the locus of cooperation in China and...
Archivio della reading list
Frey, B., Savage, D. A., Trogler, B. (2011). Who perished on the Titanic? The importance of social norms. Rationality and Society 23(1) 35–49
This paper seeks to empirically identify what factors make it more or less likely for people to...
Frijters, P. (2013). An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Why are people loyal? How do groups form and how do they create incentives for their members to...
Growiec, J., Growiec, K. (2010). Trusting Only Whom You Know, Knowing Only Whom You Trust: The Joint Impact of Social Capital and Trust on Individuals' Economic Performance and Well-Being in CEE Countries. MPRA Paper 23350
This paper provides evidence that bridging and bonding social capital as well as social trust may...
Guiso, L. Sapienza, P., Zingales, L. (2009). Cultural biases in Economic Exchange? Quarterly Journal of Economics 124 (3): 1095-1131.
How much do cultural biases affect economic exchange? We answer this question by using data on...
Illingworth, P. (2012). Us Before Me Ethics and Social Capital for Global Well-Being. Palgrave MacMillan
In Us before Me, a philosopher argues that persistent, unabated human suffering requires that the...
Ioannou, C., Qi, S., Rustichini, A. (2011). Group Outcomes And Reciprocity. University of Southampton Discussion Paper Series In Economics And Econometrics No. 1106
Group membership affects an agent's individual behavior. We determine how, by testing two...
Jackson, M.O., Rogers, B.W. and Y. Zenou (2017). The economic consequences of social network structure. Journal of Economic Literature 55(1), 1-47.
We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We...
Kaplan, T. R., Ruffle, B. J. (2011). Which Way to Cooperate. The Economic Journal, forthcoming
Cooperation in real-world dilemmas takes many forms. We introduce a class of two-player games that...
Ligon, E., Schechter, L. (2011). Motives for Sharing in Social Networks. UC Berkeley Department of Economics, mimeo.
What motivates people in rural villages to share? Using variants of dictator games we measure two...
Marcon, G., Pianta, M. (2013). Sbilanciamo l'economia. Una via d'uscita dalla crisi. Bari: Laterza
L’economia in recessione, la società in frantumi, la politica che degenera: la crisi...
Meier, S., Pierce, L., Vaccaro, A., La Cara, B. (2016). Trust and in-group favoritism in a culture of crime. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 132: 78-92.
We use experiments in high schools in two neighborhoods in the metropolitan area of Palermo, Italy...
Pelligra, V. (2011). Empathy, guilt-aversion, and patterns of reciprocity. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics 4 (3), 161-173
This paper reports the results of an experiment aimed at investigating the link between empathy,...
Pendenza, M. (2000). Cooperazione, fiducia e capitale sociale. Liguori
Il volume riprende la critica sociologica della razionalità strumentale e illustra i «...
Poulsen, A., Svendsen, G. T. (2005). Social Capital and Endogenous Preferences. Public Choice 123 (1), 171-196
In this paper we analyze whether social capital can emerge endogenously from a process of...