Reference Group Behaviour and Economic Incentives: A Remark

Published: Jan. 1, 1981, 11 a.m.

b'People tend, in many ways, to behave like the others they see around them. This note\\xb4shows that such reference group behavior tends to reinforce incentives (economic or other) that influence individuals directly only marginally. The workings or such incentives is augmented what might be called a "social multiplier."'