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Tumen, Semih - 2015

I develop an intra-firm theory of group design and teamwork in the presence of peer effects. The purpose is to … by the productivity levels of the teammates as well as the worker's own productivity. This means that team composition is … pronounced when workers are more alike within each team and more different across the teams. I provide numerical exercises …

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Key Players in Co-Offending Networks

Lindquist, Matthew J. - 2014

We study peer effects in crime by analyzing co-offending networks. We first provide a credible estimate of peer effects in these networks equal to 0.17. This estimate implies a social multiplier of 1.2 for those individuals linked to only one co-offender and a social multiplier of 2 for those...

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Beyond the Average : Peer Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education

Chakraborty, Tanika - 2014

Estimating the effect of 'ethnic capital' on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify the causal impact of parental peer-heterogeneity on...

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Evaluating Trust and Trustworthiness in Social Groups and Networks

O'Higgins, Niall - 2018

Trust and trustworthiness are important components of social capital and much attention has been devoted to their correct evaluation. In this paper, we argue that individuals' trust and trustworthiness are strongly dependent on the level of trust and trustworthiness of the social group in which...

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Conformism, Social Norms and the Dynamics of Assimilation

Olcina, Gonzalo - 2018

We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...

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On the Mechanisms of Ability Peer Effects

de Gendre, Alexandra; Salamanca, Nicolas - 2021

Studying with higher ability peers increases student performance, yet we have little idea why. We exploit random assignment of students to classrooms and find positive peer effects on test scores. With rich data on nineteen potential mechanisms, we then estimate how effects on attitudes,...

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Do Professionals Choke Under Pressure?

Dohmen, Thomas J. - 2021

High rewards or the threat of severe punishment do not only provide incentives to exert high levels of effort but also create pressure. Such pressure can cause paradoxical performance effects, namely performance decrements despite strong incentives and high motivation. By analyzing the...

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Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects

Boucher, Vincent; Rendall, Michelle; Ushchev, Philip; … - 2023

There is substantial empirical evidence showing that peer effects matter in many activities. The workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects is the linear-in-means (LIM) model, whereby it is assumed that agents are linearly affected by the mean action of their peers. We develop a new...

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Incentives and Group Identity

Masella, Paolo - 2012

This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...

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Competition, Group Identity, and Social Networks in the Workplace : Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm

Kato, Takao - 2013

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and …

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