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Shan, Xiaoque; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022

Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 … of peers' extraversion, agreeableness, or neuroticism. To explain these results, we propose a simple model of personality … development under the influence of peers. Consistent with the model's prediction, personality spillovers are concentrated in …

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The determinants of economic growth in European regions

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Doppelhofer, Gernot; … - 2009

We use Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to evaluate the robustness of determinants of economic growth in a new dataset of 255 European regions in the 1995-2005 period. We use three different specifications based on (1) the cross-section of regions, (2) the cross-section of regions with country...

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Robust growth determinants

Doppelhofer, Gernot; Weeks, Melvyn - 2011

This paper investigates the robustness of determinants of economic growth in the presence of model uncertainty, parameter heterogeneity and outliers. The robust model averaging approach introduced in the paper uses a flexible and parsimonious mixture modeling that allows for fat-tailed errors...

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Own motivation, peer motivation, and educational success

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020

I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I ﬁnd that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking...

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Competition and the role of group identity

Cornaglia, Francesca; Drouvelis, Michalis; Masella, Paolo - 2019

The emergence of competition is a defining aspect of human nature and characterizes many important social environments. However, its relationship with how social groups are formed has received little attention. We design an experiment to analyze how individuals' willingness to compete is...

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Identity and redistribution: theory and evidence

Dhami, Sanjit S.; Manifold, Emma; Al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2020

We propose a theoretical model that embeds social identity concerns, as in Akerlof and Kranton (2000), with inequity averse preferences, as in Fehr and Schmidt (1999). We conduct an artefactual ultimatum game experiment with registered members of British political parties, for whom political...

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Can peers improve agricultural productivity?

Songsermsawas, Tisorn; Baylis, Kathy; Chhatre, Ashwini; … - 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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Competitive peers : the way to higher paying jobs?

Schilter, Claudio; Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2024

We merge experimental data on competitiveness of a large sample of students with their complete educational history for up to ten years after the initial assessment. Exploiting quasi-random class assignments, we find that having competitive peers as classmates makes students choose and secure...

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Peer effects and the gender gap in corporate leadership : evidence from MBA students

Hampole, Menaka; Truffa, Francesca; Wong, Ashley - 2024

Women continue to be underrepresented in corporate leadership positions. This paper studies the role of social connections in women's career advancement. We investigate whether access to a larger share of female peers in business school affects the gender gap in senior managerial positions....

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Estimating peer effects among college students : evidence from a field experiment of one-to-one pairings in STEM

Fairlie, Robert W.; Oliver, Daniel; Millhauser, Glenn; … - 2024

An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by several major problems some of which cannot be solved even with random assignment. We design a field experiment and propose a new estimation technique to address these estimation...

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