Persuasion: Empirical evidence

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 643-669

  Dellavigna, Stefano ^a   Gentzkow, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952226121     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.economics.102308.124309     Document Type: Article

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