TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Markussen, Simen
AU  - Røed, Knut
        TI  - Social Insurance Networks
        PY  - 2012/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6446
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6446
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - peer effects
KW  - social interaction
KW  - social multiplier
KW  - work norms
        ER  -