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When learning together goes wrong : negative peer effects in online learning
Yamamoto, Shohei; Iwatani, Shuma - 2024 - Revised July 2024
This research examined the impacts of peer perseverance on learning outcomes and investigated how this influence varies … learning platforms. Study 1 recruited active English learners, while Study 2 involved subjects who had not engaged in English … subjects ceased studying earlier and displayed lower performance when learning with less perseverant peers, compared to when …
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Susceptibility and influence in social media word-of-mouth
Claussen, Jörg; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, Michael R. - 2014
Peer influence through word-of-mouth (WOM) plays an important role in many information systems but identification of causal effects is challenging. We identify causal WOM effects in the empirical setting of game adoption in a social network for gamers by exploiting differences in individuals’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467832
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Diffusion of behavior in network games orchestrated by social learning
Huang, Jiaping; Koster, Maurice; Lindner, Ines - 2013
The novelty of our model is to combine models of collective action on networks with models of social learning. Agents …
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Peer effects in product adoption
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Kuchler, Theresa; … - 2019
social learning contributes substantially to the observed peer effects. While peer effects increase the overall demand for …
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Peer effects in product adoption
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Kuchler, Theresa; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028301
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The influence of food recommendations : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Bookwala, Kamal; Gallemore, Caleb; Gómez-Miñambres, … - 2021
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The influence of food recommendations : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Bookwala, Kamal; Gallemore, Caleb; Gómez-Miñambres, … - In: Economic inquiry 60 (2022) 4, pp. 1898-1910
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Peer effect of iPhone adoptions on social networks
Ke, T. Tony; Yang, Clair Zhuqing - 2017 - Last revised: January 2017
This paper studies the peer effect of iPhone adoptions in China. We use a unique data set of iPhone adoption records from a provincial capital city in China, in a span of over four years starting from iPhone's first introduction to mainland China. We construct a social network using six month's...
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Peer effects in collaborative content generation : the evidence from German Wikipedia
Slivko, Olga - 2015 - This version: March 3, 2015
On Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, editors who contribute to the same articles and exchange comments on articles’ talk pages work in collaborative manner engaging in communication about their work. Thus they can be considered as peers who are likely to influence each other. In this...
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Peer effects identified through social networks : evidence from Uruguayan schools
Melo, Gioia de - 2014
This paper represents the first application of a novel strategy to estimate peer effects in education in a developing country. It provides evidence on peer effects in standardized tests by exploiting a unique data set on social networks in Uruguayan primary schools. The identification method...
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