How strong are peer effects on the beliefs and spending decisions of individuals? We use a randomized control study in which treated households are told about either average income or debt of individuals like them to assess how peer effects influence their beliefs and spending. The information...

section 1. Why queer economics? -- section 2. Barriers to the study of queer economics -- section 3. Queer demography -- section 4. Queer political economy -- section 5. Queer economic history -- section 6. Queer labor economics -- section 7. Queer consumer economics -- section 8. Queer urban...

Recent studies of US elite exam schools have yielded the startling conclusion that such schools improve neither educational achievement nor longer-term educational outcomes. Is the same true for exam schools elsewhere? The system in Turkey is ideal for investigating this question. There,...