Essays on behavioral economics and social networks
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation contains three essays relating to behavioral economics and social networks. In the first chapter, I experimentally investigate third-party preferences for compensation and punishment after one party financially harms another for their own benefit. I find that demand for both compensation and punishment extends beyond pure distributional concerns, reflecting preferences for (what I term) compensatory and retributive justice, respectively. In the second chapter, I develop a simple model of friendship formation that provides insight into three key empirical patterns regarding homophily, our tendency to form connections with those most similar to us. In the model, agents have homophilic preferences along two dimensions, but homophily is only measured along a single dimension. Via simulations, I show that introducing this second dimension (qualitatively) generates all three noted patterns. In the final chapter, I and co-authors develop a dynamic theory of endogenous preference formation in which people adopt worldviews that shape their judgments about their experiences. The theory generates rich behavioral dynamics, illuminating a wide range of applications and providing potential explanations for a variety of observed phenomena.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Zuckerman, David Benjamin |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Bernheim, B. Douglas |
| Thesis advisor | Bernheim, B. Douglas |
| Thesis advisor | Jackson, Matthew O |
| Thesis advisor | Niederle, Muriel |
| Degree committee member | Jackson, Matthew O |
| Degree committee member | Niederle, Muriel |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Economics |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | David Zuckerman. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Economics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/zd971cy5323 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by David Benjamin Zuckerman
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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