This paper represents the first application of a novel strategy to estimate peer effects in
education in a developing country. It provides evidence on peer effects in standardized tests …

Using a large sample of individual credit information provided by a US credit bureau, this
paper investigates the empirical relevance of stigma and information sharing on household …

This paper uses nationally representative data on high school students to test for several
types of social influences on the decision to enroll in college. An instrumental variable …

School, parental and peer group effects have been identified as being influential in shaping
the decision of students to participate in post‐compulsory education, but the analysis of each …

The paper contributes to the social interactions literature by exploiting data on self-selection
into neighborhoods. We examine what influences households when they change their …

This paper investigates the role of social influences in preferences for redistribution using
data from the General Social Survey. We employ social interaction models with a …

Local interactions refer to social and economic phenomena where individuals' choices are
influenced by the choices of others who are 'close'to them socially or geographically. This …

Social interactions arguably provide a rationale for several important phenomena, from
smoking and other risky behavior in teens to eg, peer effects in school performance. We …

The present work reviews the relation between culture and economics; in doing so, we often
distinguish between the historical component of culture (ie inherited values) and its …

Many consumer behaviors are both addictive and social. Understanding how these two
phenomena interact informs basic models of human behavior, and matters for policymakers …