Social Economics: Market Behavior in a Social Environment

By G. Becker, Kevin M. Murphy. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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Favoritism Under Social Pressure (2005, background): “That social environments can affect individual behavior has long been the focus of the literature on endogenous preference formation (for example, Akerlof, 1980; Bernheim, 1994; Becker and Murphy, 2000).”
Contextual Inference in Markets: On the Informational Content of Product Lines (2008, background): “An alternative way to generate rational choice overload would be to assume that uninformed consumers obtain social capital, and thus a higher utility, from whatever goods the informed are consuming, as in Becker and Murphy (2000). In this interpretation, the uninformed do not know from which good th”
Behavior Under Social Pressure: Empty Italian Stadiums and Referee Bias (2010, background): “Akerlof 1980, Bernheim 1994, and Becker and Murphy 2000 ) but there is considerably less empirical work.1”
Framing consumer food demand responses in a viral pandemic (2020, background): “More broadly than this, one could think about incorporating the notions of personal and social capital in the utility function and defining these forms of latent capital as functions of choices made (Becker & Murphy, 2000).”
Do Professionals Choke Under Pressure? (2005, background): “Apart from a small literature that addresses the role of social influences on behavior (see, e.g., Akerlof, 1980; Akerlof, 1997; Bernheim, 1994; Becker and Murphy, 2000; and Austen-Smith and Fryer, 2005) economists largely ignore that the task environment, especially the social context, can affect p”
The Determinants and Welfare Implications of US Workers' Diverging Location Choices by Skill: 1980-2000 (2016, unknown): “A growing literature has considered how amenities change in response the composition of an area’s local residents (Chapter 5 in Becker and Murphy (2000), Bayer, McMillan and Rueben (2004), Bayer, Ferreira and McMillan (2007), Card, Mas and Rothstein (2008), Guerrieri, Hartley and Hurst (2013), Handb”
Information-Sharing in Academia and the Industry: A Comparative Study (2011, background): “This study’s framework introduces aspects of “social economics,” notably the integration of social forces and rational choice (Coleman, 1990; Becker and Murphy, 2000), which influence the propensity to share information.”
Social dynamics of obesity (2007, unknown): “18 The latter is an example of a “social multiplier” effect, as in Becker and Murphy (2000), Glaeser and Scheinkman (2002), Brock and Durlauf (2001), and Burke and Prasad (2005).”
The impact of family policies on fertility in industrialized countries: a review of the literature (2007, background): “Recent work on the formation of preferences has however questioned this assumption and has instead stressed the importance of factors such as peers, neighbors, habits, traditions, and publicity in the formation of preferences and values (see, for example, Becker 1996; Becker and Murphy 2000 ).”
The Influence of Social Forces: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees (2008, background): “These results are important for the literature on endogenous preference formation for they provide support for theories that emphasize the relevance of the social environment (e.g., Akerlof 1980; Becker and Murphy 2000; Bernheim 1994).”