Die heutige Lebenswelt junger Erwachsener ist längst von verschiedenen Medien durchdrungen, ist meditisiert. Gerade Soziale Onlinenetzwerke wie Facebook sind fester Bestandteil der alltäglichen Kommunikation von Jugendlichen. Was bedeutet es für die Freundschaft, wenn Jugendliche alle...

In the light of the recent literature on the intellectual history of inequality, this paper offers the first survey and a tentative classification of the Italian literature addressing issues related to social mobility, from late-19th century to the 'Economic Miracle' of the 1950s. During these...

Peer effects can lead to better financial outcomes or help propagate financial mistakes across social networks. Using unique data on peer relationships and portfolio composition, we show considerable overlap in investment portfolios when an investor recommends their brokerage to a peer. We argue...

This paper examines the educational spillover effects of migrant personality on the academic performance of local students, exploring the random assignment of students into Chinese middle school classrooms. We find that local students perform better in the presence of more conscientiousness and...

We investigate the impact of peer pressure on the characteristics of forward-looking disclosures. We identify plausibly exogenous variation in the amount of peer firm forecast news available when a focal firm issues its own forecast by employing a sample of firms that issue forecasts in...