The goal of this paper is to explore a notable new policy for young adults known as the Youth Independence Camp (wakamono jiritsu juku) and to consider in an open-ended fashion how it influences the public-private boundaries – the shift of which is ongoing – of social provision for youth in Japan. Who is this unconventional programme intended for, and what are its overt and covert objectives? A...

We seed noisy information to members of a real-world social network to study how information diffusion and information aggregation jointly shape social learning. Our environment features substantial social learning. We show that learning occurs via diffusion which is highly imperfect: signals travel only up to two steps in the conversation network and indirect signals are transmitted noisily. W...

Research on social capital has found that individuals who access resources through social relations gain competitive advantage and systems with high levels or desirable distributions of social capital are more effective. These effects depend on actors allocating resources to others in their social system at-large instead of to others with whom they share specific social relationships. It is hyp...

This review steps back from the burgeoning economics literature on measuring social preferences and considers more carefully the empirical evidence from the lab and the field. I place the claims from the ardent supporters of the literature into three bins: one for claims that are supported by the data upon closer scrutiny, one for claims that are not supported by the data upon closer scrutiny, ...

Although we generally experience our bodies as being biologically stable across time and situations, an emerging field of research is demonstrating that external social conditions, especially our subjective perceptions of those conditions, can influence our most basic internal biological processes-namely, the expression of our genes. This research on human social genomics has begun to identify ...

social capital is a component in the field of management and behavioral and sciences and philosophical and inspirational views especially in holy books studied in recent century in the field of human life philosophy and management sciences as an inspirational topic. in present paper which addresses to two inspirational and scientific (managerial) aspects), we have tried to consider it in philos...