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Consumption peer effects and utility needs in India
Lewbel, Arthur; Norris, Samuel; Pendakur, Krishna; Qu, Xi - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 3, pp. 1257-1295
We construct a peer effects model where mean expenditures of consumers in one's peer group affect utility through perceived consumption needs. We provide a novel method for obtaining identification in social interactions models like ours, using ordinary survey data, where very few members of...
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Personality and smoking : individual-participant meta-analysis of 9 cohort studies
Hakulinen, Christian; Hintsanen, Mirka; Munafò, Marcus R. - 2015
Aims: To investigate cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between personality and smoking, and test whether …-smoker, and never smoker), smoking initiation, smoking relapse, and smoking cessation. Associations between personality and ….87-0.96). Sociodemographic variables did not appear to modify the associations between personality and smoking. Conclusions: Adult smokers have …
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Peer effects on obesity in a sample of European children
Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Reisch, Lucia A.; … - 2015
This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which applies several anthropometric and other measures of fatness to approximately 14,000 children aged two to nine participating in both waves in 16 regions of eight European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528670
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Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain
Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - 2015
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529406
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Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated : evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Humlum, Maria Knoth; Morthorst, Marius Opstrup; … - 2022
We investigate the effects of the introduction of a population-wide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program on the vaccine take-up of the targeted group of 15-year-old girls and their older sisters. For identification, we rely on a regression discontinuity design and high-quality Danish...
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Peer gender and mental health
Getik, Demid; Meier, Armando N. - 2020
Adolescent mental health is key for later well-being. Yet, causal evidence on environmental drivers of adolescent mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects mental health. We use Swedish administrative data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012309783
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Peers, gender, and long-term depression
Giulietti, Corrado; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020
This study investigates whether exposure to peer depression in adolescence affects own depression in adulthood. We find a significant long-term depression peer effect for females but not for males in a sample of U.S. adolescents who are followed into adulthood. An increase of one standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290624
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Peers, gender, and long-term depression
Giulietti, Corrado; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020
This study investigates whether exposure to peer depression in adolescence affects own depression in adulthood. We find a significant long-term depression peer effect for females but not for males in a sample of U.S. adolescents who are followed into adulthood. An increase of one standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296866
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The company you keep : health behavior among work peers
Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas; Zocher, Katrin - 2017
There is widespread agreement that behavior crucially influences one's health. However, little is known about what actually determines health-related behavior. We explore the impact of the place where many people spend most of their time, at work, and analyze whether an individual’s decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698311
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The company you keep : health behavior among work peers
Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas; Zocher, Katrin - 2017
There is widespread agreement that behavior crucially influences one's health. However, little is known about what actually determines health-related behavior. We explore the impact of the place where many people spend most of their time, at work, and analyze whether an individual's decision to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011675892