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Casella, Alessandra - 2020

the theory in a lab experiment where two subjects negotiate how to share a resource; in case of conflict, the subjects … they translate into significant increases in conflict …

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The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality

Breza, Emily - 2016

The idea that worker utility is affected by co-worker wages has potentially broad labor market implications. In a month-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily wage or different wages (according to...

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Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams

Ichniowski, Casey - 2014

explain differences in the rate of human capital accumulation on the job. Data tracking national soccer team performance and … individual has been a member of an elite team than when he has been a member of lower level teams. The conclusion is borne out by … a rich set of complementary data on: national team performance, player-level performance, performance of foreign players …

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Understanding Social Interactions : Evidence from the Classroom

De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2013

Little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior commonly observed in the data. We present a model where agents can interact according to three distinct mechanisms, and we derive testable implications which allow us to distinguish between the...

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Participation in Heterogeneous Communities

Alesina, Alberto - 1999

This paper studies both theoretically and empirically the determinants of group formation and of the degree of participation when the population is heterogeneous, both in terms of income and race or ethnicity. We are especially interested in whether and how much the degree of heterogeneity in...

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Who Pays Sin Taxes? : Understanding the Overlapping Burdens of Corrective Taxes

Conlon, Christopher; Rao, Nirupama L.; Wang, Yinan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We find that sin good purchases are highly concentrated with 10% of households paying more than 80% of taxes on alcohol and cigarettes. Total sin tax burdens are poorly explained by demographics (including income), but are well explained by eight household clusters defined by purchasing...

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Measuring Relative Poverty through Peer Rankings : Evidence from Côte D'Ivoire

Dupas, Pascaline; Fafchamps, Marcel; Houeix, Deivy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate a method for eliciting relative poverty rankings that aggregates partial poverty rankings obtained from multiple individuals. We first demonstrate that the method works in principle, then apply it in urban Côte d'Ivoire. We find that constructed rankings are often incomplete, not...

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Real Option Exercise : Empirical Evidence

Décaire, Paul - 2019

We study when and why firms exercise real options. Using detailed project-level investment data, we find that the likelihood that a firm exercises a real option is strongly related to peer exercise behavior. Peer exercise decisions are as important in explaining exercise behavior as variables...

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Schools, Neighborhoods, and the Long-Run Effect of Crime-Prone Peers

Billings, Stephen B. - 2019

This paper examines how elementary-aged peers affect cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes from adolescence to adulthood. We identify effects by exploiting within-school and within-neighborhood variation in the proportion of peers with an arrested parent. Results indicate exposure to these peers...

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Peer Effects in Product Adoption

Bailey, Michael - 2019

We study the nature of peer effects in the market for new cell phones. Our analysis builds on de-identified data from Facebook that combine information on social networks with information on users' cell phone models. To identify peer effects, we use variation in friends' new phone acquisitions...

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