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econ.GN2026
The friendship paradox: Causal evidence of its behavioral consequences
Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Matthew O. Jackson +2
We provide a first causal analysis of the behavioral consequences of the friendship paradox-the fact that people's friends in a network have more connections than average. We find…
econ.GN2025
Can the decoy effect increase cooperation in networks? An experiment
Claudia Cerrone, Francesco Feri, Anita Gantner +1
This paper investigates whether the decoy effect - specifically the attraction effect - can foster cooperation in social networks. In a lab experiment, we show that introducing a d…