2 papers
econ.TH2022
Communicating with Anecdotes
Nika Haghtalab, Nicole Immorlica, Brendan Lucier +2
We study a communication game between a sender and a receiver. The sender chooses one of her signals about the state of the world (i.e., anecdotes) and communicates to the receiver…
physics.soc-ph2019
When Celebrities Speak: A Nationwide Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia
Vivi Alatas, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Markus Mobius +2
Celebrity endorsements are often sought to influence public opinion. We ask whether celebrity endorsement per se has an effect beyond the fact that their statements are seen by man…