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Social interaction and the spatial concentration of criminality
Bernasco, Wim; Graaff, Thomas de; Rouwendal, Jan; … - 2012 - Draft verion
It has often been observed that there is substantial spatial variation in criminality, i.e. criminality clusters in neighborhoods. Differences in neighborhood characteristics are one possible reason, social interactions another. In this paper we use detailed data on the residential location of...
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The influence of endogenous behaviors among social pairs : social interaction effects of smoking
Li, Chunxiao; Gilleskie, Donna B. - In: Journal of health economics 80 (2021), pp. 1-23
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Cities and the structure of social interactions : evidence from mobile phone data
Büchel, Konstantin; Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2016
Social interactions are considered pivotal to urban agglomeration forces. This study employs a unique dataset on mobile phone calls to examine how social interactions differ across cities and peripheral areas. We first show that geographical distance is highly detrimental to interpersonal...
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Estimation of social-influence-dependent peer pressure in a large network game
Lin, Zhongjian; Haiqing Xu - In: The econometrics journal 20 (2017) 3, pp. 86-102
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Sieve IV estimation of cross-sectional interaction models with nonparametric endogenous effect
Hoshino, Tadao - In: Journal of econometrics 229 (2022) 2, pp. 263-275
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Does social interaction matter for welfare participation?
Chareyron, Sylvain; Domingues, Patrick; … - In: Annals of economics and statistics 141 (2021), pp. 49-70
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Fractionalization and the Size of Government
Lind, Jo Thori - 2003
fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between group inequality decreases redistribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508116
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Estimating and interpreting peer and role model effects from randomly assigned social groups at West Point
Lyle, David S. - In: The review of economics and statistics 89 (2007) 2, pp. 289-299
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Do peers affect student achievement? : evidence from Canada using group size variation
Boucher, Vincent; Bramoullé, Yann; Djebbari, Habiba; … - 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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An empirical analysis of "acting white"
Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.>; Torelli, Paul - In: Journal of public economics 94 (2010) 5/6, pp. 380-396
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