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Handbook of Social Economics SET: 1A, 1B

  • 1st Edition, Volume 1 - November 10, 2010
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, Matthew O. Jackson
  • Language: English

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 interacti… Read more

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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.

Key features

  • Advances our understanding about quantifying social interactions and the effects of culture
  • Summarizes research on theoretical and applied economic analyses of social preferences
  • Explores the recent willingness among economists to consider new arguments in the utility function

Readership

Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, professors, and professionals working in all segments of economics and finance.

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)

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 1
  • Published: November 10, 2010
  • Language: English

About the editors

JB

Jess Benhabib

Affiliations and expertise
New York University, NY, USA

AB

Alberto Bisin

Alberto Bisin is Professor of Economics at New York University and an elected fellow of the Econometric Society. He is also fellow of the NBER, the CEPR, and CESS at NYU, CIREQ. He has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory, of Economic Theory, and of Research in Economics. He is founding editor of noiseFromAmerika.org and contributes op-eds for the italian newspaper La Repubblica. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, obtained in 1994. His main contributions are in the fields of Social Economics, Financial Economics, and Behavioral Economics.
Affiliations and expertise
New York University, NY, USA

MJ

Matthew O. Jackson

Affiliations and expertise
Stanford University, CA, USA

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