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Giving and sorting among friends : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment
Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - 2013
Among residents of an informal housing area in Cairo, we examine how dictator giving varies by the social distance between subjects - friend versus stranger - and by the anonymity of the dictator. While giving to strangers is high under anonymity, we find - consistent with Leider et al. (2009) -...
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Homophily and transmission of behavioral traits in social networks
Bhargava, Palaash; Chen, Daniel L.; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2022
Social networks are a key factor of success in life, but they are also strongly segmented on gender, ethnicity, and other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily, namely behavioral traits. Behavioral traits are important...
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What is a peer? : the role of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects
Halliday, Timothy J. (contributor); Kwak, Sally (contributor) - 2008
We employ a standard identification strategy from the peer effects literature to investigate the importance of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects. We use detailed information on friends in the Adolescent Longitudinal Health Survey (Add Health) to construct two network...
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The impact of self-selection on performance
Kiessling, Lukas; Radbruch, Jonas; Schaube, Sebastian - 2018
In many natural environments, carefully chosen peers influence individual behavior. In this paper, we examine how self-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes at secondary schools. Students participate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803276
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Innovation and communication media in virtual teams - an experimental study
Grözinger, Nicola; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Laske, Katharina; … - 2020
In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative … via video conferences as compared to face-to-face. Thus, we provide evidence that barriers to creativity in virtual teams … can be mitigated by real-time video conference communication. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212370
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Peer creativity and academic achievement
Lent, Max van - 2024
on a creativity test prior to university entry. We first show that the creative abilities of peers matter for a student …'s academic achievement. A one standard deviation higher creativity peer group improves study performance by 8.4 to 10 percentage … points. Notably, this effect is driven by the average group creativity, there is no special impact of creative superstars …
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Lab measures of other-regarding preferences can predict some related on-the-job behavior : evidence from a large scale field experiment
Burks, Stephen V.; Nosenzo, Daniele; Anderson, Jon; … - 2016
We measure a specific form of other-regarding behavior, costly cooperation with an anonymous other, among 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. Using subjects' second-mover strategy in a sequential form of the Prisoners' Dilemma, we categorize subjects as: Free Rider,...
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Can war foster cooperation?
Bauer, Michal; Blattman, Christopher J.; Chytilová, Julie - 2016
In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493852
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Spillovers of prosocial motivation : evidence from an intervention study on blood donors
Bruhin, Adrian; Götte, Lorenz; Haenni, Simon; Jiang, … - 2014
Spillovers of prosocial motivation are crucial for the formation of social capital. They facilitate interactions among individuals and create social multipliers that amplify the effects of policy interventions. We conducted a large-scale intervention study among dyads of blood donors to...
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The effects of computers on children's social development and school participation : evidence from a randomized control experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Kalil, Ariel - 2016
Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but largely uninformed by plausibly causal evidence. We provide the first test of this hypothesis using a large-scale randomized control experiment in which more than one thousand...
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