Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 182
Cover Image
Diversity and Conflict
Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2015
This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity, rather than fractionalization or polarization across ethnic groups, has been pivotal to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024494
Cover Image
Kinship and Conflict : Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Moscona, Jacob - 2018
to conflict. Ethnographic accounts suggest that in segmentary lineage societies, which are characterized by strong …. We test for this link between segmentary lineage and conflict across 145 African ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930336
Cover Image
Mediating Conflict in the Lab
Casella, Alessandra; Friedman, Evan; Perez Archila, Manuel - 2022
the theory in a lab experiment where two subjects negotiate how to share a resource; in case of conflict, the subjects … they translate into significant increases in conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090443
Cover Image
The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality
Breza, Emily - 2016
The idea that worker utility is affected by co-worker wages has potentially broad labor market implications. In a month-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily wage or different wages (according to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985579
Cover Image
Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams
Juster, Thomas - 2014
explain differences in the rate of human capital accumulation on the job. Data tracking national soccer team performance and … individual has been a member of an elite team than when he has been a member of lower level teams. The conclusion is borne out by … a rich set of complementary data on: national team performance, player-level performance, performance of foreign players …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047403
Cover Image
Understanding Social Interactions : Evidence from the Classroom
De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2013
Little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior commonly observed in the data. We present a model where agents can interact according to three distinct mechanisms, and we derive testable implications which allow us to distinguish between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079589
Cover Image
A Roy Model of Social Interactions
Cicala, Steve - 2011
We develop a Roy model of social interactions in which individuals sort into peer groups based on comparative advantage. Two key results emerge: First, when comparative advantage is the guiding principle of peer group organization, the effect of moving a student into an environment with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128607
Cover Image
From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Lucas Critique Meets Peer Effects
Carrell, Scott E. - 2011
We take cohorts of entering freshmen at the United States Air Force Academy and assign half to peer groups with the goal of maximizing the academic performance of the lowest ability students. Our assignment algorithm uses peer effects estimates from the observational data. We find a negative and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128883
Cover Image
Can Higher-Achieving Peers Explain the Benefits to Attending Selective Schools? : Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2010
Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers within schools, I credibly estimate both (1) the effect of attending schools with higher-achieving peers, and (2) the direct effect of short-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135145
Cover Image
Networks and Workouts : Treatment Size and Status Specific Peer Effects in a Randomized Field Experiment
Babcock, Philip - 2010
This paper estimates treatment size and status specific peer effects that are not detected by widely-used approaches to the estimation of spillovers. In a field experiment using university students, we find that subjects who have been incentivized to exercise increase gym usage more if they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135398