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A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2006
This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one's group is partly determined by group-specific investments made by individuals. I prove three main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466301
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Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives
Babcock, Philip - 2011
This paper estimates social effects of incentivizing people in teams. In two field experiments featuring exogenous team … formation and opportunities for repeated social interactions, we find large team effects that operate through social channels …. The team compensation system induced agents to choose effort as if they valued a marginal dollar of compensation for their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461970
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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Peer Effects in Early Education
Neidell, Matthew - 2008
We examine peer effects in early education by estimating value added models with school fixed effects that control extensively for individual, family, peer, and teacher characteristics to account for the endogeneity of peer group formation. We find statistically significant and robust spillover...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464369
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Self-Confidence and Social Interactions
Benabou, Roland - 2000
as stressed by psychologists in that they undermine intrinsic motivation. As a result, they may be only weak reinforcers … in the short run, and become negative reinforcers once withdrawn. Similarly, empowerment is likely to increase motivation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471184
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Economic Analysis of Social Interactions
Manski, Charles F. - 2000
Economists have long been ambivalent about whether the discipline should focus on the analysis of markets or should be concerned with social interactions more generally. Recently the discipline has sought to broaden its scope while maintaining the rigor of modern economic analysis. Major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471189
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The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa
Nunn, Nathan - 2009
We investigate the historical origins of mistrust within Africa. Combining contemporary household survey data with historic data on slave shipments, we show that individuals whose ancestors were heavily raided during the slave trade today exhibit less trust in neighbors, relatives, and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463864
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Estimating the Effects of Friendship Networks on Health Behaviors of Adolescents
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2012
This paper estimates the effects of friends' health behaviors, smoking and drinking, on own health behaviors for adolescents while controlling for the effects of correlated unobservables between those friends. Specifically, the effect of friends' health behaviors is identified by comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460407
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The Empirical Content of Models with Multiple Equilibria in Economies with Social Interactions
Bisin, Alberto - 2011
We study a general class of models with social interactions that might display multiple equilibria. We propose an estimation procedure for these models and evaluate its efficiency and computational feasibility relative to different approaches taken to the curse of dimensionality implied by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461461
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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/10012461780
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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...
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