Many people care about how they are perceived by those around them. Several recent field
experiments in economics have found that such social image concerns can have powerful …

Social norms are patterns of behavior that are self-enforcing within a group: Everyone
conforms, everyone is expected to conform, and everyone wants to conform when they …

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a new reality for consumers all around the globe. To
cope, users of digital technologies have faced the necessity of adopting and using specific …

Social norms, usually persistent, can change quickly when new public information arrives,
such as a surprising election outcome. People may become more inclined to express views …

We examine gender differences in financial literacy among high school students in Italy
using data from the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Gender …

Corporate executives managing some of the largest public companies in the US are shaped
by their daughters. When a firm's chief executive officer (CEO) has a daughter, the corporate …

Entrepreneurs are turning to crowdfunding as a way to finance their creative ideas.
Crowdfunding involves relatively small contributions of many consumer-investors over a …

What is an effective vaccination policy to end the COVID-19 pandemic? We address this
question in a model of the dynamics of policy effectiveness drawing upon the results of a …

Social pressure may have relevant consequences in many contexts but it is hard to evaluate
it empirically. In this paper we exploit a natural experiment in soccer to provide clear …

We study how the proximate and distal sociocultural environments affect the well-
established relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial …