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      Altruism and Social Integration 

      Brañas Garza, Pablo; Cobo Reyes, Ramón; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID; Jiménez, Natalia; Kovarik, Jaromir ORCID; Ponti, Giovanni (2009)
      We report on a two-stage experiment in which i) we first elicit the social network within a section of undergraduate students and ii) we then measure their altruistic attitudes by means of a standard Dictator game. We ...
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      Prosocial norms and degree heterogeneity in social networks 

      Kovarik, Jaromir ORCID; Brañas Garza, Pablo; Cobo-Reyes, Ramón; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID; Jiménez, Natalia; Ponti, Giovanni (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)
      We provide empirical evidence to support the claims that social diversity promotes prosocial behavior. We elicit a real-life social network and its members’ adherence to a social norm, namely inequity aversion. The data ...
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      Strategic Interaction and Conventions 

      Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID; Kovarik, Jaromir ORCID; Ponti, Giovanni (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-06)
      The scope of the paper is the literature that employs coordination games to study social norms and conventions from the viewpoint of game theory and cognitive psychology. We claim that those two alternative approaches are ...