TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kondo, Ayako
AU  - Shoji, Masahiro
        TI  - Peer Effects in Employment Status: Evidence from Housing Lotteries for Forced Evacuees in Fukushima
        PY  - 2016/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9708
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9708
        AB  - Does a high peer employment rate increase individual employment probability? We exploit the random assignment of temporary housing to evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident to identify the effect of neighbors' employment rates on an individual's probability of finding a job post-evacuation. Using unique survey data collected in 14 clusters of temporary housing 2.5 years after the accident, we find a significantly positive peer effect: a one standard deviation increase in the initial employment rate of an individual's peers makes the hazard of restarting work 1.53 times larger during the six months after housing move-in.
        KW  - neighborhood effect
KW  - peer effect
        ER  -