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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo - 2012
of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all …'s behavior. Our finding contributes to the micro-foundation of psychological effects of incentives …
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When Incentives Backfire : Spillover Effects in Food Choice
Angelucci, Manuela - 2015
How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover … effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers …' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016205
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A Theory of Intra-Firm Group Design
Tumen, Semih - 2015
I develop an intra-firm theory of group design and teamwork in the presence of peer effects. The purpose is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012037
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057053
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039603
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920459
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922451
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314819
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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 … incentives and high motivation. By analyzing the performance of professional football players on a well-defined task, namely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318055
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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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