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Competition and the role of group identity
Cornaglia, Francesca; Drouvelis, Michalis; Masella, Paolo - 2019
more actively in the team-building task. …
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The strength of weak leaders : an experiment on social influence and social learning in teams
Buechel, Berno; Klößner, Stefan; Lochmüller, Martin; … - 2018
We investigate how the selection process of a leader affects team performance with respect to social learning. We use a … that random leaders are better able to use the knowledge within the team. We can show that it is the declaration of the … to the fact that overly influential leaders mislead their team. …
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Juvenile delinquency and conformism
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2010 - Revised: July 2, 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729273
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Games on networks : direct complements and indirect substitutes
Currarini, Sergio; Fumagalli, Elena; Panebianco, Fabrizio - 2013
Many types of economic and social activities involve significant behavioral complementarities (peer effects) with neighbors in the social network. The same activities often exert externalities that cumulate in "stocks" affecting agents' welfare and incentives. For instance, smoking is subject to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702228
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Helping struggling students and benefiting all : peer effects in primary education
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Busso, Matias; Giannola, Michele - 2022
We exploit the randomized evaluation of a remedying education intervention that improved the reading skills of low-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the academic performance of their higher-achieving...
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A peer like me? : early exposure to high achievers in math and later educational outcomes
Pagani, Laura; Pica, Giovanni - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803241
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Helping struggling students and benefiting all : peer effects in primary education
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Busso, Matias; Giannola, Michele - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805588
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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination : evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam
Tam Kiet Vuong; Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021
We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social identities to understand how group identification and socialization affect ingroup favoritism and out-group discrimination. The Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in...
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High-ability influencers? : the heterogeneous effects of gifted classmates
Balestra, Simone; Sallin, Aurélien; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241539
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Social interactions and stigmatized behavior : "donating" blood plasma in rural China
Chen, Xi; Sahn, David E.; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2018
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