Blar i Discussion papers (SAM) på forfatter "Valasek, Justin"

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    • The Impact of Exposure to Refugees on Prosocial Behavior 

      Hager, Anselm; Valasek, Justin (SAM DP;04/2022, Working paper, 2022-03)
      Does exposure to refugees affect natives' prosocial behavior? If so, do changes in prosocial behavior also extend to existing migrants? We administer a survey of a representative sample of Lebanese respondents and measure ...

    • The Impact of Forced Migration on In-Group and Out-Group Social Capital 

      Hager, Anselm; Valasek, Justin (SAM DP;05/2022, Working paper, 2022-03)
      In this paper, we study how forced migration impacts the in-group and out-group social capital of Syrian refugees and the host population in Northern Lebanon by administering a novel survey experiment in which we manipulate ...

    • Robust Information Aggregation Through Voting 

      Midjord, Rune; Rodríguez Barraquer, Tomás; Valasek, Justin (DP SAM;12/2019, Working paper, 2019-06-10)
      Numerous theoretical studies have shown that information aggregation through voting is fragile. We consider a model of information aggregation with vote-contingent payoffs and generically characterize voting behavior in ...

    • Underrepresentation, Quotas and Quality: A dynamic argument for reform 

      Arve, Malin; Valasek, Justin (SAM DP;08/2023, Working paper, 2023-05)
      The trade-off between increased representation and perceived quality is central to the debate on how to address underrepresentation in high-profile professions. We address this trade-off using a dynamic model of career ...

    • Why do committees work? 

      Breitmoser, Yves; Valasek, Justin (DP SAM;18/2023, Working paper, 2023-11-21)
      We report on the results of an experiment designed to disentangle behavioral biases in information aggregation of committees. Subjects get private signals about the state of world, send binary messages, and finally vote ...