Search Results - subject:"Peer Eﬀects"

Peer Effects in the Workplace: A Network Approach

Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sauermann, Jan; Zenou, Yves - 2022

We study both endogenous and exogenous peer effects in worker productivity using an explicit network approach. We apply …

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Peer effects in the workplace : a network approach

Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sauermann, Jan; Zenou, Yves - 2022

We study both endogenous and exogenous peer effects in worker productivity using an explicit network approach. We apply …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168776

Peer effects on well-being and performance in elementary school

Olufsen, Isabel Skak; Fries, Jesper - 2025

We study the effect of having high socioeconomic status (SES) peers on pupils' wellbeing, absence rate, and academic performance in elementary school. We compare pupils in the same school who started school in different years and, consequently, were exposed to different shares of high-SES peers....

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Activist pressure and compliance with sustainability disclosure policy : experimental evidence from the U.K. modern slavery act

Lee, Matthew T.; Jasjit Singh; Shukla, Devanshee - 2025 - Revised version of 2023/09/STR

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Peer effects on well-being and performance in elementary school

Olufsen, Isabel Skak; Fries, Jesper - 2025

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Disruption in the classroom: Experimental evidence from Ecuador

Carneiro, Pedro; Cruz Aguayo, Yyannú; Salvati, Francesca; … - 2025

We study how poorly-behaved children affect learning and other outcomes of their peers using data from a unique experiment in Ecuador. Within each school, students were randomly assigned to classrooms in every grade for seven consecutive grades, between kindergarten and 6th grade. Children with...

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Leave and Let Leave: Workplace Peer Effects in Fathers' Take-up of Parental Leave

Casarico, Alessandra; Di Porto, Edoardo; Kopinska, Joanna; … - 2025

Relying on a reform that increased parental leave generosity, we estimate workplace peer effects in the use of leave … levels of social capital and higher use of parental leave before the reform. We also document that own-gender peer effects … provides an explanation for our findings. Peer effects extend to coworker fathers' partners, who experience an increase in …

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Empirical essays on digital platforms

El-Komboz, Lena Marie Abou - 2025

Digital platforms alter almost every industry in the modern economy (De Reuver et al., 2018). For instance, in the media industry, there is an increasing shift from traditional media outlets such as newspapers and television to online newspapers, social media, or platforms such as Netflix or...

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Human Capital Spillovers and the External Returns to Education

Portugal, Pedro; Reis, Hugo; Guimarães, Paulo; … - 2025

We employ a regression model with spillover effects to show that the impact of peer quality on wages is quite large. We estimate that a 10 percent increase in peer quality implies a 2.1 percent increase in an individual's wage. In addition, we estimate the external returns to education using a...

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Dishonesty Concessions in Teams: Theory and Experimental Insights from Local Politicians in India

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Kundu, Anustup; Sen, Kunal - 2025

Economic theory predicts that dishonesty thrives in secrecy. Yet, team-based decisions are ubiquitous in public policy-making. How does teamwork influence the tendency for selfdealings when public servants – both honest and corrupt – must work together to make decisions under the veil of...

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