
Handbook of Social Economics SET: 1A, 1B
- 1st Edition, Volume 1 - November 10, 2010
- Editors: Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, Matthew O. Jackson
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 3 7 1 4 - 0
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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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.
- 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
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)
- No. of pages: 1600
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 1
- Published: November 10, 2010
- Imprint: North Holland
- eBook ISBN: 9780444537140
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