Autor: Alberto Bisin

How can economists define social preferences and interactions?Culture, familial beliefs, religion, and other sources contain the origins of social preferences. Those preferences–the desire for socia …

How can economists define and measure social preferences and interactions?Through the use of new economic data and tools, our contributors survey an array of social interactions and decisions that ty …

How do economists understand and measure normal social phenomena?Identifying economic strains in activities such as learning, group formation, discrimination, and peer dynamics requires sophisticated …

The Handbook of Historical Economics guides students and researchers through a quantitative economic history that uses fully up-to-date econometric methods. The book’s coverage of statistics applied …