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Brother, can you spare a dime? Peer pressure in charitable solicitation ☆
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This paper analyzed whether alumni are more likely to donate and give larger amounts when they are solicited by someone with whom they have social ties, and found that social ties play a strong causal role in the decision to donate.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 184 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Interpersonal ties & Social influence.read more
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Group Identity and Social Preferences
Yan Chen,Sherry Xin Li +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that participants are significantly more likely to choose social welfare-maximizing actions when matched with an ingroup member when compared to when they are matched with a non-group identity.
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The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics
TL;DR: The authors argue that political misperceptions are typically rooted in directionally motivated reasoning, which limits the effectiveness of corrective information about controversial issues and political figures, and discuss factors known to affect the prevalence of directional motivated reasoning.
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Executive Networks and Firm Policies: Evidence from the Random Assignment of MBA Peers
Kelly Shue,Kelly Shue +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how executive peer networks can affect managerial decision-making and firm policies and demonstrate the important role of ongoing social interactions by showing that peer effects are more than twice as strong in the year immediately following staggered alumni reunions.
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The Social Network Effect The Determinants of Giving Through Social Media
Gregory D. Saxton,Lili Wang +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ data from Facebook Causes to find new ways for nonprofits to engage the community in fundraising efforts, such as using social networking applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and Crowdrise.
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The Social Network Effect: The Determinants of Giving through Social Media
Gregory D. Saxton,Lili Wang +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the nature and determinants of charitable giving in social networking environments and found that donations on these sites are not driven by the same factors as in "off-line" settings.
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Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks
TL;DR: The homophily principle as mentioned in this paper states that similarity breeds connection, and that people's personal networks are homogeneous with regard to many sociodemographic, behavioral, and intrapersonal characteristics.
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Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem
TL;DR: The authors examined the reflection problem that arises when a researcher observing the distribution of behaviour in a population tries to infer whether the average behaviour in some group influences the behaviour of the individuals that comprise the group.
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A Theory of Social Interactions
TL;DR: In this paper, a general treatment of social interactions into the modern theory of consumer demand is presented, where various characteristics of different persons are assumed to affect the utility functions of some persons, and the behavioral implications are systematically explored.
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A Theory of Conformity
TL;DR: In this paper, a model of social interaction in which individuals care about status as well as "intrinsic" utility (which refers to utility derived directly from consumption) is presented.