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

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Information

Publisher

North Holland

Year

2010

ISBN

9780444537140

Topic

Economics

Subtopic

Economic Theory

Index

Economics

Cover
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Series
Copyright
Contributors
Social Economics
Chapter 1 Nature and Nurture Effects On Children’s Outcomes
Chapter 2 Social Norms and Preferences
Chapter 3 Preferences for Status
Chapter 4 Preferences for Redistribution
Chapter 5 Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey
Chapter 6 Social Construction of Preferences
Chapter 7 The Evolutionary Foundations of Preferences>
Chapter 8 Social Norms
Chapter 9 The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization
Chapter 10 Civic Capital as the Missing Link
Chapter 11 Does Culture Matter?
Chapter 12 An Overview of Social Networks and Economic Applications
Chapter 13 Local Interactions
Chapter 14 Diffusion, Strategic Interaction, and Social Structure
Chapter 15 Learning in Networks
Chapter 16 Formation of Networks and Coalitions
Chapter 17 Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete Resources
Chapter 18 Identification of Social Interactions
Chapter 19 Econometric Methods for the Analysis of Assignment Problems in the Presence of Complementarity and Social Spillovers
Chapter 20 Peer Effects in Education
Chapter 21 The Importance of Segregation, Discrimination, Peer Dynamics, and Identity in Explaining Trends in the Racial Achievement Gap
Chapter 22 Labor Markets and Referrals
Chapter 23 Labor and Credit Networks in Developing Economies
Chapter 24 Risk Sharing Between Households
Chapter 25 Neighborhood Effects And Housing
Author Index
Index-II
Author Index
Subject Index