Publications

Gradoz, J., & Raux, R. (2021). Trolling in the Deep : Managing Transgressive Content on Online Platforms as a Commons. In Erwin Dekker and Pavel Kuchar (eds), Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 217-237.

Working Paper

Signaling Universalism  (reject and resubmit at Journal of the European Economic Association)

Abstract: Recent research has studied heterogeneity in universalism vs. in-group favoritism to explain various economic and political behaviors. This paper documents that displayed universalism is significantly affected by social signaling concerns resulting from the anticipation of future economic interactions. In an online experiment, a decision maker divides money between an in-group and an out-group member, and I vary both the existence and identity - in-group or out-group - of a third-party audience that will subsequently play a cooperative game with the decision maker. Consistent with a simple model of social signaling, I find that people act substantially more universalist in presence of an out-group audience, as they try to match what they believe to be the audience’s preference. Publicly revealed universalism might therefore be significantly distorted, which garbles the true correlation between universalism and political or moral views.

Work in Progress

Human Learning about AI Performance (with Bnaya Dreyfuss)