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Can Peers Improve Agricultural Productivity?

Songsermsawas, Tisorn; Baylis, Kathy; Chhatre, Ashwini; … - CESifo - 2014

Productivity varies greatly among farmers and the source of that variation is not fully understood. Using a unique Indian household survey, we estimate peer effects on agricultural revenue. Results show that 60% of farmers' revenue is explained by peers. Input expenditures and land allocation to...

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Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation

Thöni, Christian; Gaechter, Simon - CESifo - 2014

Social preferences and social influence effects (“peer effects”) are well documented, but little is known about how peers shape social preferences. Settings where social preferences matter are often situations where peer effects are likely too. In a gift-exchange experiment with independent...

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Identity and Entrepreneurship

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - CESifo - 2009

We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual’s socialization. This could be...

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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions

Lalive, Rafael; Cattaneo, Alejandra - CESifo - 2006

The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social interactions may be important because children enjoy spending time with other children or parents learn from other parents about the ability of their children. Identification is based on...

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Conditional Gender Peer Effects?

Iversen, Jon Marius Vaag; Bonesrønning, Hans - CESifo - 2014

While the current empirical literature on peer group effects in schools highlights that credible causal peer effects cannot be estimated unless parental sorting is taken into account, the present paper highlights that causal peer effects might be conditional on the learning environment in which...

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Peer Pressure and Productivity: The Role of Observing and Being Observed

Georganas, Sotiris; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014

. We consider both a piece rate compensation scheme, where pay depends solely on own performance, and a team compensation … scheme, where pay also depends on the performance of other team members. Overall, we find some evidence that subjects who are … observed increase productivity at least initially when compensation is team based, while we find that subjects observing react …

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Peer Effects in Risk Taking

Lahno, Amrei M.; Serra-Garcia, Marta - CESifo - 2012

We examine peer effects in risk taking with complete information and compare explanations for peer effects based on relative payoff concerns to explanations that allow peer choices to matter. We vary experimentally whether individuals can condition a simple lottery choice on the lottery choice,...

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Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - CESifo - 2014

This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive English administrative data. Identification is obtained from variation in test score distributions across cohorts and subjects, such that the same score relative to the class mean...

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Fishing for Excuses and Performance Evaluation

Larmande, François; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre - CESifo - 2014

We study a principal-agent model in which the agent can provide ex post additional relevant information regarding his performance. In particular, he can provide a legitimate excuse, that is, evidence that a poor result is only due to factors outside his control. However, building a convincing...

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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)

Praag, Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - CESifo - 2007

Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...

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