Something to Talk About: Social Spillovers in Movie Consumption

2016 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 1339-1382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Sheppard Gilchrist ◽  
Emily Glassberg Sands
Keyword(s):  
Social Spillovers

scholarly journals Habit Formation in Voting: Evidence from Rainy Elections

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 160-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Fujiwara ◽  
Kyle Meng ◽  
Tom Vogl
Keyword(s):  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Habit Formation ◽  
County Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Social Spillovers ◽  
Consumption Value

We estimate habit formation in voting—the effect of past on current turnout—by exploiting transitory voting cost shocks. Using county-level data on US presidential elections from 1952–2012, we find that rainfall on current and past election days reduces voter turnout. Our estimates imply that a 1-point decrease in past turnout lowers current turnout by 0.6–1.0 points. Further analyses suggest that habit formation operates by reinforcing the direct consumption value of voting and that our estimates may be amplified by social spillovers. (JEL D72, D83, N42)

scholarly journals Assessing Sustainability in Housing LED Urban Regeneration: Insights from a Housing Association in Northern England

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Dean ◽  
Claudia Trillo
Keyword(s):  
Housing Association ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Current Assessment ◽  
Social Spillovers ◽  
The City ◽  
Regeneration Processes

How far do current assessment methods allow the thorough evaluation of sustainable urban regeneration? Would it be useful, to approach the evaluation of the environmental and social impacts of housing regeneration schemes, by making both hidden pitfalls and potentials explicit, and budgeting costs and benefits in the stakeholders’ perspective? The paper aims at answering these questions, by focusing on a case study located in the Manchester area, the City West Housing Trust, a nonprofit housing association. Drawing from extensive fieldwork and including several interviews with key experts from this housing association, the paper first attempts to monetize the environmental and social value of two extant projects – a high-rise housing estate and an environmentally-led program. It then discusses whether and how a stakeholder-oriented approach would allow more engagement of both current and potential funders in the projects at hand. Findings from both the literature and the empirical data that was gathered show how in current housing regeneration processes, room for significant improvements in terms of assessment methods still exist. Findings additionally show that the environmental and social spillovers are largely disregarded because of a gap in the evaluation tools. This may also hinder the potential contributions of further funders in the achievements of higher impacts in terms of sustainability.

scholarly journals Are there Social Spillovers in Consumers’ Security Assessments of Payment Instruments?

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles M. Kahn ◽  
José M. Liñares-Zegarra ◽  
Joanna Stavins
Keyword(s):  
Payment Instruments ◽  
Social Spillovers

scholarly journals Partners in Crime

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen B. Billings ◽  
David J. Deming ◽  
Stephen L. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Small Neighborhood ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
Disadvantaged Students ◽  
At Risk Youth ◽  
School Segregation ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Agglomeration Effects ◽  
Social Spillovers

Social interactions may explain the large variance in criminal activity across neighborhoods and time. We present direct evidence of social spillovers in crime using random variation in neighborhood residence along opposite sides of a newly drawn school boundary. We first show evidence for agglomeration effects—within small neighborhood areas, grouping more disadvantaged students together in the same school increases total crime. We then show that these youths are more likely to be arrested for committing crimes together—to be “partners in crime.” Our results show that neighborhood and school segregation increase crime by fostering social interactions between at-risk youth. (JEL I24, I28, J13, K42, R11, R23, Z13)

scholarly journals A cooperative culture may affect trustworthiness assessments derived from the human face

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Berger ◽  
Francisco Schlöder ◽  
Annika Wyss
Keyword(s):  
Person Perception ◽  
Temporal Stability ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Perceptual Cues ◽  
Trust Games ◽  
Subsequent Behavior ◽  
Social Spillovers ◽  
The Impact

Trust is crucial for successful social interactions and personal well-being. Among the many mechanisms potentially favoring the evolution of trust, spillovers of social institutions on subsequent behavior have received little attention within evolutionary psychology. Although a plethora of research has investigated pro-social spillovers in economic experiments, research has thus far largely overlooked the impact of spillovers on person perception. Additionally, given that most studies on such spillovers use one-off measurement of the subsequent behavior, the stability of pro-social spillovers over time has not been investigated so far. In a three-stage laboratory experiment (n = 208), we provide evidence that pro-social spillovers occur even when perceptual cues provide an additional source of information to base decisions on. In Stage 1, participants played a series of trust games against unknown, videotaped targets to assess their baseline trust behavior against strangers, taking into account their trust perception. Subsequently, we randomly exposed them to a repeated prisoner’s dilemma in which cooperation is either favored (“C-culture”) or discouraged (“D-culture”). In the final stage – another series of 30 trust decisions against different targets – participants from the “C-culture” initially respond with higher levels of trust. This spillover effect, however, is short-lived and behavior converges back to the pre-intervention levels. Thus, our findings confirm pro-social spillovers even when participants behavior may also be influenced by perceptual cues but raise the question about their temporal stability. We complemented the experiment with an independent survey (n = 132) on the trustworthiness of the targets. Results show that these perception affects quickly gain predictive quality, suggesting the intervention effect only temporarily crowds out the trustworthiness perception as a key driver of trust behavior.

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