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This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...
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While effective preventive measures against COVID-19 are now widely known, many individuals fail to adopt them. This paper provides experimental evidence about one potentially important driver of compliance with social distancing: social norms. We asked each of 23,000 survey respondents in...
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This study revisits the problem of the tragedy of the commons. Extracting agents participate in an evolutionary game in a complex social network and are subject to social pressure if they do not comply with the social norms. Social pressure depends on the dynamics of the resource, the network...
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-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the …-form effect on higher-achieving students as a spillover effect within treated schools. We then estimate a linear-in-means model of … explore several mechanisms, including teachers’ effort, students’ misbehavior, and peer-to-peer interactions. Our findings show …
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Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City on two groups of high school students with … different backgrounds, i.e., French bilingual and monolingual (Vietnamese) students. We find strong evidence for the presence of … these two phenomena: our micro-analysis of within- and betweenschool effects show that bilingual students exhibit higher …
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-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the …-form effect on higher-achieving students as a spillover effect within treated schools. We then estimate a linear-in-means model of …. We explore several mechanisms, including teachers' effort, students' misbehavior, and peer-to-peer interactions. Our …
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