A model shows how reputation concerns can support widespread street crime, a street culture, where the direct incentives for such behavior are weak. There are social benefits to street reputations, but those benefits are dominated when reputation concerns draw into crime those who obtain no direct gain from it. The model matches facts about violent crime that a standard model cannot easily expl...

Poor heath, large acute and long-term care medical expenses and spousal death are significant drivers of impoverishment among retirees. We document these facts and build a rich overlapping generations model that reproduces them. We use the model to assess the incentive and welfare effects of U.S. Social Security and means-tested social insurance programs, such as Medicaid and food stamp program...

Abstract How credulous are we when engaging information on social media? Addressing this question, article aims to understand how individuals’ epistemic vigilance, a set of cognitive mechanisms that comprise our system precaution in interactions, may operate and fall short. Reporting findings from two survey experiments (Study 1, N = 413; Study 2, 392), show participants tended be skeptical tow...

in this paper, the performance of two types of facts devices in order to enhance the power system static voltage stability has been investigated. these devices include static var compensator (svc) and thyristor controlled series capacitor (tcsc). the modeling of the single machine infinite bus (smib) and aforesaid devices has been made up in steady state mode with disregarding of the generator ...

the research compares 5-12 year old children of addicted fathers with those of non-addicted fathers. this experiment was carried out on one hundred families of the addict, in comparison to another one hundred non-addicted families. these children have not been subjects for social scientists and health experts because of the following facts: 1) they live with their parents, 2) they are not crimi...

The facts of the human body, evolutionary, physiological, social, and systemic, as experienced and symbolized (often differently) by every human, necessarily set the standards, and the limits, of human minds, and of theories about them. Following Turner (1994), who conjures the ghost of Plato conjuring the ghost of Socrates conjuring the ghost of Protagoras, we may call (1) Protagoras’s Principle: