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How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover … the school lunchroom. Incentives increase the likelihood of initially choosing grapes. However, peer spillover effects can …
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We provide the first empirical evidence on direct sibling spillover effects in school achievement using English … spillover effect that is net of unobserved child, family and school characteristics shared by siblings. We find a modest … spillover effect from the older sibling to the younger but not vice versa. This effect is considerably higher for siblings from …
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children in terms of their language and math performance at the end of primary school. Our paper studies the spill-over effects … no evidence of negative spillover effects of the classroom presence of immigrant children at the median of the test score … distribution. In addition, there is no indication that these spill-over effects are present at other parts of the distribution …
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Using an identification strategy based on random assignment of refugees to different municipalities in Denmark between 1986 and 1998, we find strong evidence that gang crime rates in the neighbourhood at assignment increase the probability of boys to commit crimes before the age of 19, and that...
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This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...
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We use a plant level survey to identify interactions between domestic plants and foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ethiopia's manufacturing sector. One third of Ethiopian plants are linked to FDI through labor sharing, supply chains and competition. Technology upgrading most commonly occurs as...
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We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a sample of undergraduate students are randomly assigned to either teams composed by friends or teams composed by individuals not linked by friendship relationships. Students...
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on knowledge spillover. In the type of low skilled occupations analyzed in existing studies on social pressure, in …
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We study both endogenous and exogenous peer effects in worker productivity using an explicit network approach. We apply this method to data from an in-house call center of a multinational mobile network operator that include detailed information on individual performance. We find that a 10%...
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We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
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