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Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015

cohort composition within a school, we find a strong negative effect of a student's rank on the likelihood of smoking …

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The interaction between personality and health policy : empirical evidence from the UK smoking bans

Josten, Cecily; Lordan, Grace - 2020

We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level … establish their overall effect on smoking outcomes, and how this differs by personality. We measure personality using the Big … point reduction in the probability of smoking after the ban. Notably, this is the only Big Five personality trait that …

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Job durations with worker and firm specific effects : MCMC estimation with longitudinal employer-employee data

Horny, Guillaume; Mendes, Rute; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2009

We study job durations using a multivariate hazard model allowing for worker-specific and firm-specific unobserved determinants. The latter are captured by unobserved heterogeneity terms or random effects, one at the firm level and another at the worker level. This enables us to decompose the...

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Peers affect personality development

Shan, Xiaoyue; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022

Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 … personality development under the influence of peers. Consistent with the model - prediction, personality spillovers are … concentrated in traits predictive of performance. Students adopt personality traits that are productive in the university context …

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The family peer effect on mothers' labour supply

Nicoletti, Cheti; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma - 2016

The documented historical rise in female labour force participation has flattened in recent decades, but the proportion of mothers working full-time has steadily increased. We provide the first empirical evidence that the increase in mothers' working hours is amplified through the influence of...

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Peer effects on obesity in a sample of European children

Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Reisch, Lucia A.; … - 2015

This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which applies several anthropometric and other measures of fatness to approximately 14,000 children aged two to nine participating in both waves in 16 regions of eight European...

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Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain

Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - 2015

This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network. We...

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Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated : evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Humlum, Maria Knoth; Morthorst, Marius Opstrup; … - 2022

We investigate the effects of the introduction of a population-wide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program on the vaccine take-up of the targeted group of 15-year-old girls and their older sisters. For identification, we rely on a regression discontinuity design and high-quality Danish...

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Peers, gender, and long-term depression

Giulietti, Corrado; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020

This study investigates whether exposure to peer depression in adolescence affects own depression in adulthood. We find a significant long-term depression peer effect for females but not for males in a sample of U.S. adolescents who are followed into adulthood. An increase of one standard...

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Is good health contagious? : the impact of BMI environment on individual BMI

McKennie, Caitlin; Argys, Laura M.; Friedson, Andrew - 2018

Increasing trends in obesity have driven policymakers around the US to examine factors associated with lower Body Mass Index (BMI) and improved health. Our research examines the relationship between an individual's health and their environment. Specifically, we examine whether moving to a state...

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