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180 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18145
Effects of Team Diversity on Individual Performance and Voice: A Field Experiment of Group Composition by Gender and Language
Valentina Contreras, Chiara Orsini, Berkay Özcan, Johann Koehler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17962
Voting Among Siblings
Michael D. Bloem, John B. Holbein, Samuel J. Imlay, Jonathan Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17690
Human Capital Spillovers and the External Returns to Education
Pedro Portugal, Hugo Reis, Paulo Guimaraes, Ana Rute Cardoso
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17628
Dishonesty Concessions in Teams: Theory and Experimental Insights from Local Politicians in India
Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Anustup Kundu, Kunal Sen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17576
On-the-Job Learning: How Peers and Experience Drive Productivity Among Teachers
Romaine A. Campbell, Seth Gershenson, Constance A. Lindsay, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Jessica H. Rendon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17446
Gritty Peers
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Yaming Cao, Ezgi Kaya
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17443
Peer Effects and Marriage Formation
Abigail Wozniak, Michael T. Baker, Susan P. Carter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17362
The Effectiveness of Teamwork for Student Academic Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Ritwik Banerjee, Niels-Hugo Blunch, Daniele Cassese, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Paolo Pin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17358
Estimating Peer Effects among College Students: Evidence from a Field Experiment of One-to-One Pairings in STEM
Robert W. Fairlie, Daniel Oliver, Glenn Millhauser, Randa Roland
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17292
Heterogeneity in Peer Effects of Obesity
Kiersten Strombotne, Sophia Day, Kevin Konty, Jason M. Fletcher
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17289
Competitive Peers: The Way to Higher Paying Jobs?
Claudio Schilter, Samuel Lüthi, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17222
When Do Ordinal Ability Rank Effects Emerge? Evidence from the Timing of School Closures
Marco Bertoni, Saeideh Parkam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17082
The Impact of Peer Performance and Relative Rank on Managerial Career Attainment: Evidence from College Students
Rafael Perez Ribas, Breno Sampaio, Giuseppe Trevisan
pubished in: Management Science, 2025, 71 (5), 4510–4531
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16998
Identifying Peer Effects in Networks with Unobserved Effort and Isolated Students
Aristide Houndetoungan, Cristelle Kouame, Michael Vlassopoulos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16982
Informal Social Interactions, Academic Achievement and Behavior: Evidence from Peers on the School Bus
Matthew A. Lenard, Mikko Silliman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16969
Integrating Minorities in the Classroom: The Role of Students, Parents, and Teachers
Alexandra de Gendre, Krzysztof Karbownik, Nicolás Salamanca, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16847
Peer Creativity and Academic Achievement
Max van Lent
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16830
Peer Effects on Violence: Experimental Evidence from El Salvador
Lelys Dinarte Diaz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16769
Keeping Up with the Jansens: Causal Peer Effects on Household Spending, Beliefs and Happiness
Maarten van Rooij, Olivier Coibion, Dimitris Georgarakos, Bernardo Candia, Yuriy Gorodnichenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16721
Birds of a Feather Earn Together. Gender and Peer Effects at the Workplace
Julián Messina, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16689
Female Classmates, Disruption, and STEM Outcomes in Disadvantaged Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment
Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yi Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16453
Spillovers in Fields of Study: Siblings, Cousins, and Neighbors
Stanislav Avdeev, Nadine Ketel, Hessel Oosterbeek, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 238, 105193.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16374
Persistence of the Spillover Effects of Violence and Educational Trajectories
María Padilla-Romo, Cecilia Peluffo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16354
Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects
Vincent Boucher, Michelle Rendall, Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou
published in: Econometrica, 2024, 92 (2), 543-565
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16258
Spillover Effects of Black Teachers on White Teachers' Racial Competency: Mixed Methods Evidence from North Carolina
Seth Gershenson, Constance A. Lindsay, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Romaine A. Campbell, Jessica H. Rendon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16234
Pricing Neighborhoods
Sadegh S. M. Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman, Goya Razavi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16198
First Generation College Students and Peer Effects
Michael S. Kofoed, Todd R. Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16180
Overconfident Boys: The Gender Gap in Mathematics Self-Assessment
Anna Adamecz, John Jerrim, Jean-Baptiste Pingault, Nikki Shure
published as 'Peers, parents, and self-perceptions: the gender gap in mathematics self-assessment' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 33 (2025)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15964
Does the Closeness of Peers Matter? An Investigation Using Online Training Platform Data and Survey Data
Xin Gu, Haizheng Li
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15840
Homophily and Transmission of Behavioral Traits in Social Networks
Palaash Bhargava, Daniel L. Chen, Matthias Sutter, Camille Terrier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15785
Reference Dependent Aspirations and Peer Effects in Education
Marco Fongoni, Jonathan Norris, Agnese Romiti, Zhan Shi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15733
Female Neighbors, Test Scores, and Careers
Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yi Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15431
Stigma in Welfare Programs
Pablo Celhay, Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15378
Sitting Next to a Dropout: Academic Success of Students with More Educated Peers
Daniel Goller, Andrea Diem, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 93, 102372
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15257
Peers Affect Personality Development
Xiaoyue Shan, Ulf Zölitz
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 28 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15187
The Effect of Foreign Students on Native Students' Outcomes in Higher Education
Julián Costas-Fernández, Greta Morando
published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 160, 104595
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15131
Peer Effects in the Workplace: A Network Approach
Matthew J. Lindquist, Jan Sauermann, Yves Zenou
revised version available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15131
Peer Effects in the Workplace: A Network Approach
Matthew J. Lindquist, Jan Sauermann, Yves Zenou
revised version available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15131
Peer Effects in the Workplace: A Network Approach
Matthew J. Lindquist, Jan Sauermann, Yves Zenou
revised version available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15128
Rank Effects in Education: What Do We Know So Far?
Judith M. Delaney, Paul J. Devereux
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook fo Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15109
Sibling Spillovers and the Choice to Get Vaccinated: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Maria Knoth Humlum, Marius Opstrup Morthorst, Peter Rønø Thingholm
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 94, 102843
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15070
Heterogeneous Peer Effects under Endogenous Selection: An Application to Local and Migrant Children in Elementary Schools in Shanghai
Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng, Chao Yang
published in: China Economic Review, 2024, 87, 102207
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14952
Effects of Childhood Peers on Personality Skills
Shuaizhang Feng, Jun Hyung Kim, Zhe Yang
forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14678
Early-Years Multi-Grade Classes and Pupil Attainment
Daniel Borbely, Markus Gehrsitz, Stuart McIntyre, Gennaro Rossi, Graeme Roy
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 2023, 85, (6), 1295-1319
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14439
Peer Gender and Schooling: Evidence from Ethiopia
Daniel Borbely, Jonathan Norris, Agnese Romiti
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2023, 17 (2), 207–249
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14412
Tracking the Herd with a Shotgun — Why Do Peers Influence College Major Selection?
Michael Insler, Ahmed S. Rahman, Katherine Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14320
Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College
Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording, Ulf Zölitz
published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 640 (131), 3182 - 3206.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14219
The Impact of Gender Role Norms on Mothers' Labor Supply
Danilo Cavapozzi, Marco Francesconi, Cheti Nicoletti
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 186, 113-134
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14136
The Importance of Peer Quality for Completion of Higher Education
Maria Knoth Humlum, Mette Thorsager
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 83, 102120
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14092
Learning about Farming: Innovation and Social Networks in a Resettled Community in Brazil
Margherita Comola, Carla Inguaggiato, Mariapia Mendola
revised version published as 'Social Networks and Economic Transformation: Evidence from a Resettled Village in Brazil' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 221, 17-34
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