This study examines peer influence, and its underlying motives, on environmental protection performance. We find consistent evidence of peer effects on environmental protection performance among Chinese firms. When the average environmental protection score of industry peers increases by one...

We conduct a randomized controlled trial in 180 villages in Uttar Pradesh, India, to promote the adoption of a saving commitment product new to our study population. A random set of participants are targeted by our promotional campaign. We test whether the diffusion of the product among...

Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e.,behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids theidentification problem present in the field. Our novel design feature is that each subjectsimultaneously is a member...

Higher education policymakers are concerned about the success of first-generation college students. In this study, we investigate one potential factor that may influence outcomes: first-generation students' peers. To mitigate common biases that may arise when estimating peer effects, we leverage...

In this paper, we examine whether a friend or older sibling's teen pregnancy impacts one's own sexual behavior. We exploit high-frequency data on sexual activity from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and the sharp timing of the end of a peer's pregnancy to analyze...

Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil school expenditure across districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores. We argue that this is due to sorting of teachers...