We study a critical driver of future wages: peers. Using linked employer-employee data for Italy, we explore peer effects in two directions. First, using a novel estimation method and accounting for the endogenous sorting of workers into peer groups and firms, we estimate the impact of the...

Although there exists a large literature analyzing whether an individual’s peers have an impact on that individual’s own behavior and subsequent outcomes, there is paucity of research on whether peers influence a person’s decisions and judgments regarding a third party. We investigate...

Competition is widely used to increase effort and performance. However, in many domains, performance not only depends on individual effort but also on cooperation between agents. In such cases, competition may decrease individual performance because it may weaken the cooperation between agents...

This study aims to determine effect of parents attention, peers, and self-discipline against FE UNJ’S student Learning Outcomes. This research are use a quantitative methods with 101 sample respondents with sampling that randomly collect via Google Forms. The results of this study had a...

Although peer information can motivate behavior in a cost-effective way, it can also cause an oppositional reaction or boomerang effect that leads to poorer performance. This project uses an experimental design in a controlled laboratory setting to measure if the de-motivational effect of peer...

The article studies the patterns of diffusion of residential rooftop photovoltaics (PV) systems in Poland and the effects of such technology on local air quality. First, I apply a panel econometric analysis to estimate the impact of peer effects. I lag the difference in time between a submitted...

In this paper, we investigate a primary potential impact of leveraged buyout (LBOs) transactions: the effects of LBOs on the peers of the LBO target in the same industry. Using a data sample based on US LBO transactions between 1985 and 2016, we investigate the impact of the peer firms in the...