Game theory and social capital
Essential readings
Karlan, D. (2005). Using Experimental Economics to Measure Social Capital and Predict Financial Decisions. American Economic Review, 95 (5), 1688-1699
Economic theory suggests that market failures arise when contracts are difficult to enforce or...
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Antoci, A., Sabatini, F., Sodini, M. (2011). Bowling alone but tweeting together: the evolution of human interaction in the social networking era. Sapienza University of Rome, mimeo
The objective of this paper is to theoretically analyze how human interaction may evolve in a world...
Bowles, S., Carpenter, J., Gintis, H., Ha-Hwang, S. (2009). Strong reciprocity and team production: Theory and evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 71 (2), 221-232
Punishment of shirkers is often an effective means of attenuating incentive problems and sustaining...
Bowles, S., Gintis, H. (2004). Persistent Parochialism: Trust and Exclusion in Ethnic Networks, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 55, 1-23.
Decentralized groups such as close knit residential neighborhoods and ethnically linked...
Bowles, S., Gintis, H. (2004). The Evolution of Strong Reciprocity: Cooperation in Heterogeneous Populations. Theoretical Population Biology 65, 17-28
How do human groups maintain a high level of cooperation despite a low level of genetic relatedness...
Bruni, L., Corazzini, L., Stanca, L. (2009). Testing theories of reciprocity: Do motivations matter? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 71 (2), 233-245
One of the key issues for understanding reciprocity is how agents evaluate the kindness of an...
Charness, G., Rustichini, A. (2010). Gender differences in cooperation with group membership
We study experimentally how males and females differ in the way same-gender peers observing their...
Di Cagno, D., Sciubba, E. (2010). Trust, trustworthiness and social networks: Playing a trust game when networks are formed in the lab. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 75, 156–167
This paper investigates the impact of network formation on trust and trustworthiness. We run a...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Schechter, L. (2007). raditional trust measurement and the risk confound: An experiment in rural Paraguay. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 62 (2), 272-292
Play in the traditional trust experiment depends both on trust beliefs and on levels of risk...
Stanca, L. (2009). Measuring Indirect Reciprocity: Whose Back Do We Scratch? Journal of Economic Psychology, 30(2), 190-202.
This paper presents an experimental investigation of strong indirect reciprocity. We examine both...
Tonin, M. Vlassopoulos, M. (2012). Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment. IZA Discussion Paper 6716.
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit...
Tonin, M., Vlassopoulos, M. (2010). Disentangling the Sources of Pro-socially Motivated Effort: A Field Experiment. Journal of Public Economics 94 (11-12), 1086-1092.
This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of...
