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Peer effects in parental leave decisions

Welteke, Clara; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2016

This paper analyzes to what extent parental leave decisions of mothers with young children depend on the decisions made by their coworkers. The identification of peer effects, which are defined as indirect effects of the behavior of a social reference group on individual outcomes, bears various...

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Peer effects in parental leave decisions

Welteke, Clara; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 57 (2019), pp. 146-163

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In good company : neighborhood quality and female employment

Bechara, Peggy; Eilers, Lea; Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2015

, wird in diesem Papier der Einfluss der Nachbarschaft auf das individuelle Arbeitsangebot von Frauen untersucht. Aufgrund … mit Nachbarschaftsattributen korreliert ist. Während das extensive Arbeitsangebot besonders stark mit der … durchschnittlichen Beschäftigungsquote von Frauen korreliert ist, wird das intensive Arbeitsangebot durch den Anteil der …

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Towards a general theory of peer effects

Boucher, Vincent; Rendall, Michelle; Ushchev, Philip; … - 2023

There is substantial empirical evidence showing that peer effects matter in many activities. The workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects is the linear-in-means (LIM) model, whereby it is assumed that agents are linearly affected by the mean action of their peers. We develop a new...

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Toward a General Theory of Peer Effects

Boucher, Vincent; Rendall, Michelle; Ushchev, Philip; … - 2022

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Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects

Boucher, Vincent; Rendall, Michelle; Ushchev, Philip; … - 2023

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Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain

Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - 2015

This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network. We...

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Identifying peer effects in networks with unobserved effort and isolated students

Houndetoungan, Aristide; Kouame, Cristelle; … - 2024

Peer influence on effort devoted to some activity is often studied using proxy variables when actual effort is unobserved. For instance, in education, academic effort is often proxied by GPA. We propose an alternative approach that circumvents this approximation. Our framework distinguishes...

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Consumption peer effects and utility needs in India

Lewbel, Arthur; Norris, Samuel; Pendakur, Krishna; Qu, Xi - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 3, pp. 1257-1295

We construct a peer effects model where mean expenditures of consumers in one's peer group affect utility through perceived consumption needs. We provide a novel method for obtaining identification in social interactions models like ours, using ordinary survey data, where very few members of...

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Informal social interactions, academic achievement and behavior : evidence from peers on the school bus

Lenard, Matthew A.; Silliman, Mikko - 2024

We study the effects of informal social interactions on academic achievement and behavior using idiosyncratic variation in peer groups stemming from changes in bus routes across elementary, middle, and high school. Our results suggest that student interactions outside the classroom - especially...

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