Pledges and how social influence shapes their effectiveness
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Keywords
commitment; conformity; pledgeability; promise; public good; social dilemma; social influence;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
- C71 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Cooperative Games
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2022-05-09 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-CDM-2022-05-09 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EXP-2022-05-09 (Experimental Economics)
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