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War Does not Foster Cooperation when Neoclassical Mechanisms are Absent! Evidence from a Natural Experiment among Turkish Conscripts
Kıbrıs, Arzu; Cesur, Resul - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Exploiting a natural experiment and an innovative survey design, we study the social and political legacies of armed …
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Anti-social norms
Fergusson, Leopoldo; Guerra, José-Alberto; Robinson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Since formal rules can only partially reduce opportunistic behavior, third-party sanctioning to promote fairness is critical to achieving desirable social outcomes. Social norms may underpin such behavior, but they can also undermine it. We study one such norm the "don't be a toad" norm, as it...
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The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality
Breza, Emily - 2016
-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456186
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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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Peer Advice on Financial Decisions : A case of the blind leading the blind?
Ambuehl, Sandro - 2018
experiment, face-to-face communication with a randomly assigned peer significantly improves the quality of private decisions …
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Networks and Workouts : Treatment Size and Status Specific Peer Effects in a Randomized Field Experiment
Babcock, Philip S. - 2010
the estimation of spillovers. In a field experiment using university students, we find that subjects who have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462076
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Peer Effects in the Workplace : Evidence from Random Groupings in Professional Golf Tournaments
Guryan, Jonathan - 2007
This paper uses the random assignment of playing partners in professional golf tournaments to test for peer effects in the workplace. We find no evidence that the ability of playing partners affects the performance of professional golfers, contrary to recent evidence on peer effects in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465227
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How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-to-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking
Kimbrough, Erik O. - 2017
curriculum and the instructional behavior of teachers. To fill this gap, we conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455242
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Peer Effects in Computer Assisted Learning : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Fafchamps, Marcel - 2017
We conduct a large scale RCT to investigate peer effects in computer assisted learning (CAL). Identification of peer effects relies on three levels of randomization. It is already known that CAL improves math test scores in Chinese rural schools. We find that paired treatment improves the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455486