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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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Leaders in Juvenile Crime
Díaz, Carlos; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - 2022
This paper presents a new theory of crime where leaders transmit a crime technology and act as a role model for other criminals. We show that, in equilibrium, an individual's crime effort and criminal decisions depend on the geodesic distance to the leader in his or her network of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084043
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Social Networks and Interactions in Cities
Helsley, Robert W. - 2011
We examine how interaction choices depend on the interplay of social and physical distance, and show that agents who are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic center of interaction, choose higher levels of interactions in equilibrium. As a result, the level...
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Social Networks
de Martí, Joan - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153178
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Spillovers of Prosocial Motivation : Evidence from an Intervention Study on Blood Donors
Bruhin, Adrian - 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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Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation
Boucher, Vincent - 2010
We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model. This approach allows to control for group-level unobservables and to solve the reflection problem. We investigate peer effects in student achievement in...
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Choice and Success of Job Search Methods
Weber, Andrea; Mahringer, Helmut - 2021
Job seekers can influence the arrival rate of job offers by the choice of search effort and the search methods they use. In this paper we empirically investigate the contribution of the use of different search methods on the outcome of search. We use unique data on the search behavior of job...
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Social-Family Network and Self-Employment : Evidence from Temporary Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Zhang, Junfu - 2014
estimation …
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Lagrange Multiplier Tests for Panel Seemingly Unrelated Regressions with Spatial Lag and Spatial Errors : An Application to Hedonic Housing Prices...
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2010
This paper proposes maximum likelihood estimators for panel seemingly unrelated regressions with both spatial lag and … spatial lag dependent variable and where the heterogeneity in the panel is incorporated via an error component specification … spatial autocorrelation and random effects for this spatial SUR panel model. The small sample performance of the proposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137243
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Bayesian Panel Quantile Regression for Binary Outcomes with Correlated Random Effects : An Application on Crime Recidivism in Canada
Bresson, Georges - 2020
This article develops a Bayesian approach for estimating panel quantile regression with binary outcomes in the presence …
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