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I estimate the effect of lottery winnings on peers' debt accumulation using administrative data from Norway. I identify neighbors of lottery winners, and estimate an average debt response of 2.1 percent of the lottery prize among households that live up to ten houses from the winner. Analyzing...
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Does a high peer employment rate increase individual employment probability? We exploit the random assignment of temporary housing to evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident to identify the effect of neighbors' employment rates on an individual's probability of finding a...
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Family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, but measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is difficult. To identify spillovers between brothers, we exploit Denmark's largest random assignment - of young men to 8 months of military service - where service status of...
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Young adults often make bad choices when their peers are present, due to reasons not fully understood. In this paper, using an incentive compatible experiment, we investigate whether: (1) young people's willingness to accept known and unknown risks changes in the presence of a person of the same...
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Does a high peer employment rate increase individual employment probability? We exploit the random assignment of temporary housing to evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident to identify the effect of neighbors' employment rates on an individual's probability of finding a...
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The quantitative literature on civil conflict is generally concerned with state-level risk factors. By conceptualizing the state as the unit of analysis this literature suffers from an aggregation problem in regards to its main findings, which identify mechanisms that are often only indirectly...
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Relative to adults, adolescents make more welfare-decreasing decisions, especially in the presence of peers. The consequences of these decisions result in substantial individual and societal losses in terms of lives lost, injury, hospitalization costs, and foregone opportunities. In this paper,...
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estimates at the individual level. Our data comprise detailed gambling activity for a panel of individuals at a single casino …
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