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Effects of Peer Counseling to Support Breastfeeding : Assessing the External Validity of a Randomized Field Experiment

Altindag, Onur - 2015

In an effort to improve breastfeeding, the Oregon WIC Program tested whether a relatively low-cost telephone peer counseling initiative to support breastfeeding could increase the initiation and duration of exclusive breastfeeding among its participants. They conducted a large randomized field...

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Dynamics and Peer Effects of Brand Revenue in College Sports

Liu, Zhuping - 2015

teams of strong brands. Our approach also sheds light on the effect of conference switches on a team's brand revenue. By … constructing the counterfactual brand revenue trajectory of not switching conferences for a switched team, we show the difference … conference switch. We also study the case where a team had considered but did not make a conference switch …

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Friendship at Work : Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?

Field, Erica Marie - 2015

Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success, and is the constraint stronger for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample...

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Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain

Fortin, Bernard - 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...

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Peer Effects on Obesity in a Sample of European Children

Gwozdz, Wencke - 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...

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Politics in the Courtroom : Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making

Anwar, Shamena - 2015

This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature on jury decision-making: (i) an assessment of whether systematic biases...

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The Commonality of Envelope Wages in Eastern European Economies

Williams, Colin C. - 2015

This paper evaluates the commonality in Eastern European economies of the employment practice whereby formal employers pay their formal employees both a declared wage and an undeclared ‘envelope wage'. Until now, little survey evidence has been available. Here, an extensive Eurobarometer...

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Hooligans

Leeson, Peter T. - 2012

This paper analyzes hooligans: rival football fans bent on brawling. It develops a simple theory of hooligans as rational agents. We model hooligans as persons who derive utility from conflict. Legal penalties for conflicting with non-hooligans drive hooligans to form a kind of “fight club”...

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The Simple Economics of Class Action : Private Provision of Club and Public Goods

Cassone, Alberto - 2012

This article uses economic categories to show how the reorganization of civil procedure in the case of class action is not merely aimed at providing a more efficient litigation technology, as hierarchies (and company law) might do for other productive activities, but that it also serves to...

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Asymmetric Social Interactions in Physician Prescription Behavior : The Role of Opinion Leaders

Nair, Harikesh; Manchanda, Puneet; Bhatia, Tulikaa - 2014

We quantify the impact of social interactions and peer effects in the context of prescription choices by physicians. Using detailed individual-level prescription data, along with self-reported social network information, we document that physician prescription behavior is significantly...

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