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Peer effects and multiple equilibria in the risky behavior of friends
Card, David E.; Giuliano, Laura - In: The review of economics and statistics 95 (2013) 4, pp. 1130-1149
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231020
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Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends
Card, David - 2011
Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use … also initiates intercourse, holding constant family and individual factors. Similar effects are also present for smoking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124547
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Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends
Card, David - 2011
Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use … also initiates intercourse, holding constant family and individual factors. Similar effects are also present for smoking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461569
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School-based peer effects and juvenile behavior
Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Raphael, Steven - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000970982
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School-Based Peer Effects and Juvenile Behavior
Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Raphael, Steven P. - 2011
-group influences on the propensity to engage in five different activities: drug use, alcohol drinking, cigarette smoking, church going … characteristics, family background variables, and several measures of parental behavior and involvement in the youth's daily life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064474
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School-based peer effects and juvenile behavior
Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Raphael, Steven - In: The review of economics and statistics 83 (2001) 2, pp. 257-268
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001579519
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The friendship paradox and systematic biases in perceptions and social norms
Jackson, Matthew O. - In: Journal of political economy 127 (2019) 2, pp. 777-818
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The Friendship Paradox and Systematic Biases in Perceptions and Social Norms
Jackson, Matthew O. - 2017
The 'friendship paradox' (Feld1991) refers to the fact that, on average, people have strictly fewer friends than their friends have. I show that this over-sampling of the most popular people amplifies behaviors that involve complementarities. People with more friends experience greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014035017
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Peer effects in sexual initiation : separating demand and supply mechanisms
Richards-Shubik, Seth - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 6 (2015) 3, pp. 663-702
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440598
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Peer effects in sexual initiation : separating demand and supply mechanisms
Richards-Shubik, Seth - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 6 (2015) 3, pp. 663-702
Most work on social interactions studies a single, composite effect of interactions within a group. Yet in the case of sexual initiation, there are two distinct social mechanisms-peer-group norms and partner availability-with separate effects and different potential interventions. Here I develop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011757758