%0 Report
        %A Markussen, Simen
%A Røed, Knut
        %T Social Insurance Networks
        %D 2012
        %8 2012 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 6446
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6446
        %X Based on administrative panel data from Norway, we examine how social insurance dependency spreads within neighborhoods, families, ethnic minorities, and among former schoolmates. We use a fixed effects methodology that accounts for endogenous group formation, contextual interactions, and time-constant as well as time-varying confounders. We report evidence that social insurance dependency is contagious. The estimated network effects are both quantitatively and statistically significant, and they rise rapidly with "relational closeness" in a way that establishes endogenous social interaction as a central causal mechanism. Social interactions do not cross ethnic borders.
        %K peer effects
%K social interaction
%K social multiplier
%K work norms