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v.1. Part I: Social preferences: 1 Nature and nurture effects on children’s outcomes: what have we learned from studies of twins and adoptees? / Bruce Sacerdote: 1 Introduction and overview; 2 The behavioral genetics model; 3 Canonical results from the behavioral genetics literature; 4 Critiques and challenges to interpretation of the behavioral genetics results on IQ and schooling; 5 Treatment effects and regression coefficients; 6 Results from economics on adoptees; 7 Putting it all together: what does it mean? -- 2 Social norms and preferences / Andrew Postlewaite: 1Introduxtion; 2 The social determinants of preferences; 3 Reduced form preferences: social concerns; 4 Why not take the indirect preferences as the primitive?; 5 Examples employing instrumental concern for rank; 6 Concluding remarks -- 3 Preferences for status: evidence and economic implications / Ori Heffetz and Robert H. Frank: 1 Introduction; 2 Features of status; 3 Evidence; 4 Some economic implications; 4 Some economic implications; 5 Conclusion -- 4 Preferences for redistribution / Alberto Alesina and Pola Giuliano: 1 Introduction; 2 Preferences for redistribution: theory; 3 Empirical evidence; 4 Conclusions – 5 Theories of statistical discrimination and affirmative action: a survey / Hanming Fang and Andrea Moro: 1 Introduction; 2 The Use of group averages as a proxy for relevant variables: the exogenous differences literature; 3 Discriminatory outcomes as a result of coordination failure; 4 Discriminatory outcomes due to Inter-Group interactions; 5 Dynamic models of discrimination; 6 Affirmative action; 7 Efficiency implications of statistical discrimination; 8 Conclusion -- 6 Social construction of preferences: advertising / Jess Benhabib and Alberto Bisin: 1 Introduction; 2 The benchmark economy; 3 The equilibrium effects of advertising; 4 The effects of advertising in empirical work; 5 Conclusions -- 7 The evolutionary foundations of preferences / Arthur J. Robson and Larry Samuelson: 1 Introduction; 2 Evolutionary foundations; 3 What sort of preferences?; 4 Preferences over what?; 5 Concluding remark; 6 Proofs -- 8 Social norms / Mary A. Burke and H. Peyton Young: 1 Background; 2 Norms, customs, and conventions; 3 Characteristic features of norm dynamics; 4 Social interactions and social norms; 5 A model of norm dynamics; 6 Contractual norms in agriculture; 7 Medical treatment norms; 8 Body weight norms; 9 Concluding discussion -- 9 The economics of cultural transmission and socialization / Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier: 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical Studies; 3 Empirical studies; 4 Conclusions -- 10 Civic capital as the missing link / Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales: 1 Introduction; 2 Definitions of social capital; 3 Accumulation and depreciation of civic capital; 4 Measuring civic capital; 5 The origins of civic capital; 6 The economic effects of civic capital; 7 Conclusions -- 11 Does culture matter? / Raquel Fernández: 1 Introduction; 2 Some preliminaries; 3 The epidemiological approach; 4 The epidemiological literature in economics; 5 Concluding questions and remarks; 6 Acknowledgment -- Part II: Social actions: 12 An overview of social networks and economic applications / Matthew O. Jackson: 1 Introduction; 2 Social networks and networked markets: 3 The structure of social networks; 4 Network formation; 5 Modeling the impact of networks; 6 Concluding remarks -- 13 Local interactoms / Onur Özgür: 1 Introduction; 2 Social networks and networked markets; 3 The structure of social networks; 4 Network formation; 5 Modeling remarks -- 14 Diffusion, strategic interaction, and social structure / Matthew O. Jackson and Leeat Yariv: 1 Introduction; 2 Empirical background: social networks and diffusion; 3 Models of diffusion and strategic interaction absent network structure; 4 Models of diffusion and stratetic interaction in network setting; 5 Closing notes -- 15 Learning in networks / Sanjeev Goyal: 1 Introduction; 2 Nonstrategic interaction; 3 Strategic interaction; 4 Concluding remarks; 5 Appendix -- 16 Formation of networks and coalitions / Francis Bloch and Bhaskar Dutta: 1 Introduction; 2 One-Stage models of coalition and network formation; 3 Sequential models of coalition and network formation; 4 Farsightedness; 5 Group formation in real time; 6 The tension between efficiency and stability; 7 Conclusion and open problems -- 17 Matching, allocation, and echange of discrete resources / Tayfun Sónmez and M. Urku Únver: 1 Introduction; 2 House allocation and exchange models; 3 Kidney exchange; 4 School admissions; 5 Axiomatic mechanisms and market design; 6 Concluding remarks.