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Women are less likely than equally able men to engage in behaviors rewarded in the labor market, such as competing, negotiating, or speaking up. For women, these behaviors often violate prescriptive gender norms, which may lead to sanctions. In this paper, we study how perceived gender norms create gender gaps in behavior when sanctions are … Continuer la lecture de « Zeynep Musaagaoglu – Anticipated and realised sanctions for norm violations »





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Abstract: Intrinsic support for democratic principles is difficult to capture given heterogeneity in how people interpret these principles and social desirability bias in survey responses. We introduce a novel behavioral measure based on the concept of losers’ consent, a core idea in democratic theory capturing citizens’ acceptance of election outcomes even when they lose. We … Continuer la lecture de « GATE Saint-Etienne Seminar – October 13, 10:30 – Lily Savey – Losers’ consent: Evidence from a large-scale online experiment »



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« What should I do? » Questions like these are increasingly addressed to generative AI systems. As AI becomes a source of advice in social interactions, it may influence trust and cooperation. Yet little is known about whether AI-generated advice affects behaviour, or whether it does so differently from content-equivalent human advice. To address these questions, we … Continuer la lecture de « Salvatore Di Marco (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia) – Ask the Machine: How Generative AI Shapes Trust and Cooperation in the Lab »



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We study how a behavior spreads through social networks and emerges as a society-wide convention. In a laboratory experiment, subjects with opposing induced preferences are incentivized to coordinate with neighbors in Random, Segmented, Centralized, or Core-Periphery networks. They also benefit from aligning with the broader population but must infer aggregate behavior from local observations. We … Continuer la lecture de « Siyu Chen (Nanyang Technological University) – Social Network Structure and Convention Formation »







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Abstract:  We provide a formal framework accounting for a widespread idea in the theory of economic design: analytically established incompatibilities between given axioms should be qualified by the likelihood of their violation. We define the degree to which rules satisfy an axiom, as well as several axioms, on the basis of a probability measure over … Continuer la lecture de « Pierre Bardier (GATE Saint Etienne) – The probability of satisfying axioms: A non-binary perspective on economic design »















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How do crowds aggregate dispersed private information when individuals choose the timing of their actions? We study a dynamic social-learning game in which N agents, each holding a private signal of heterogeneous precision, must take an irreversible binary action, and a pioneer bonus rewards early movers. Under symmetry of the signal-generating process and log-concavity of … Continuer la lecture de « Yoshio Kamijo (Waseda University) – When Larger Crowds Wait Longer: Dynamic Social Learning and Pioneer Incentives »



   

Do moral narratives, explanations that rationalize moral or immoral behavior, influence others’ behavior, and does their effectiveness depend on the surrounding normative environment? We investigate this question in the domain of honesty. Across a series of experiments, we expose senders in deception games to peer-generated narratives promoting honesty or justifying dishonesty, while independently varying the … Continuer la lecture de « Despoina Alempaki (University of Warwick) – Moral Narratives Need Norms »



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Abstract: This research examines the long-term effects of Côte d’Ivoire’s Programme d’Education Télévisuelle (PETV), a country-wide educational television program implemented between 1971 and 1982, on education and labour-market outcomes. Using data from the 2018-2019 Living Standards Measurement Study, the research exploits the abrupt, nationwide termination of the program in 1982 to compare individuals exposed to … Continuer la lecture de « GATE Saint-Etienne Seminar – Michel Ndayikeza – Long-Term Effects of Television Usage in the Classroom: Evidence from the Programme d’Education Télévisuelle in Côte d’Ivoire »



   

Trust requires engaging with uncertainty about others’ reciprocity. Emotional communication may shape how people evaluate this uncertainty, yet many social environments constrain emotional expression. This paper examines whether communicating anticipated feelings affects willingness to trust and through which mechanisms. I examine three channels using the incentivized belief hedge method: belief, ambiguity aversion, and ambiguity-generated insensitivity. … Continuer la lecture de « Fantine Xiao (Erasmus School of Economics) – Telling You How I Would Feel: Emotional Communication and Uncertainty in Trust »



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To start the new academic year on a good note, we are organizing a small Workshop in Economic Theory on Tuesday, September 8, in Room 202, Michelet Building. We will have four talks: 11:00 — Yukihiko Funaki (Waseda University) “The Fair Aspiration Core: Equivalence with the Per-Capita Least Core and an Axiomatization” with Yukio Koriyama, Stéphane Gonzalez and Satoshi … Continuer la lecture de « Workshop in Economic Theory »



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We examine whether introducing a bargaining mechanism prior to extraction decisions can promote sustainable resource use by encouraging players to delay extraction rather than deplete the shared resource immediately. We anticipate that bargaining fosters trust and cooperation within pairs, thereby increasing the likelihood of delayed extraction. We implement two forms of bargaining: binding agreements (where … Continuer la lecture de « Vinh Pham (Waseda University) – Bargaining for Extraction: The Role of Non-Binding Agreements in Resource Management »



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Abstract: In sub-Saharan Africa, women constitute the majority of new Christian membership (including Evangelical and Pentecostal denominations), and this gender gap exceeds that of any other religion. Existing explanations for conversion to these churches emphasize demand for mutual help or informal insurance. We instead show that emancipation is central: these churches provide services that support … Continuer la lecture de « Pablo Alvarez-Aragon (University of Bologna) – Shaking the Traditional Order: Women’s Conversion to New Christian Churches in Sub-Saharan Africa »