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57 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18344
How Home Exams and Peers Affect College Grades in Unprecedented Times
Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdottir, Marco Francesconi, Ásthildur M. Johannsdottir, Gylfi Zoega
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18148
The Impact of Neighbour, Colleague, and Family Peers on Parental Labour Supply
Jordy Meekes, Max van Lent
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17747
Religion and Economic Development: Past, Present, and Future
Sascha O. Becker, Amma Panin, Steven Pfaff, Jared Rubin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17315
Competing for Influence in Networks through Strategic Targeting
Margherita Comola, Agnieszka Rusinowska, Marie Claire Villeval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17113
Spillovers in Criminal Networks: Evidence from Co-offender Deaths
Matthew J. Lindquist, Eleonora Patacchini, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16427
Past and Future Developments in the Economics of Relational Contracts
Matthias Fahn, W. Bentley MacLeod, Gerd Muehlheusser
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. 15840
Homophily and Transmission of Behavioral Traits in Social Networks
Palaash Bhargava, Daniel L. Chen, Matthias Sutter, Camille Terrier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15431
Stigma in Welfare Programs
Pablo Celhay, Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15376
Spatial Interactions
Jun Sung Kim, Eleonora Patacchini, Pierre M. Picard, Yves Zenou
published in: Quantitative Economics, 2023, 14 (4), 1295-1335
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15038
Key Links in Network Interactions: Assessing Route-Specific Travel Restrictions in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Xi Chen, Yun Qiu, Wei Shi, Pei Yu
published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 73, 101800
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14802
Education Transmission and Network Formation
Vincent Boucher, Carlo L. Del Bello, Fabrizio Panebianco, Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (1), 129 - 173
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14801
Leaders in Juvenile Crime
Carlos Díaz, Eleonora Patacchini, Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 192, 638 - 667
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14615
Coworker Networks and the Role of Occupations in Job Finding
Attila Gyetvai, Maria Zhu
forthcoming in: Labour Economics
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. 14260
Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model
Vincent Boucher, Semih Tumen, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba, Yves Zenou
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13857
Searching with Friends
A. Stefano Caria, Simon Franklin, Marc J. Witte
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (4), 887–922
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13753
Framing the Predicted Impacts of COVID-19 Prophylactic Measures in Terms of Lives Saved Rather Than Deaths Is More Effective for Older People
Pietro Biroli, Steven J. Bosworth, Marina Della Giusta, Amalia Di Girolamo, Sylvia Jaworska, Jeremy Vollen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13150
The Determinants of Trust: Evidence from Rural South India
Anne Hilger, Christophe Jalil Nordman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12848
Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: A Pan-African RCT
Fernando Vega-Redondo, Paolo Pin, Diego Ubfal, Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil, Charles Brummitt, Gaia Rubera, Dirk Hovy, Tommaso Fornaciari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12813
Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers
Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente
published in: World Development, 2020, 129, 104905
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12752
Social Norms in Networks
Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 185, 104969.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12347
An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games
Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, Matthias Sutter
revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (6), 1630 - 1543
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12287
Hiring through Referrals in a Labor Market with Adverse Selection
Aurelie Dariel, Arno Riedl, Simon Siegenthaler
published as 'Referral hiring and wage formation in a market with adverse selection' in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 130, 109 - 130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12036
Does "Network Closure" Beef up Import Premium?
Alessio Muscillo, Paolo Pin, Tiziano Razzolini, Francesco Serti
substantially revised version published in: Social Networks, 2023, 73, 89-103.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11916
Superstar Economists: Coauthorship Networks and Research Output
Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael D. König, Xiaodong Liu, Christian Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11665
Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning
Roland Benabou, Armin Falk, Jean Tirole
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11535
Tax Evasion on a Social Network
Duccio Gamannossi degl’Innocenti, Matthew D. Rablen
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 169, 79-91
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11436
Conformism, Social Norms and the Dynamics of Assimilation
Gonzalo Olcina, Fabrizio Panebianco, Yves Zenou
published as 'Conformism, social pressure, and the dynamics of integration' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 2020, 279 - 304
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11267
Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment
Magdalena Bennett, Peter Bergman
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (1), 1-36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10186
Residential Choices of Young Americans
Eleonora Patacchini, Tiziano Arduini
published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2016, 34, 69 - 81
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10008
Co-authorship and Academic Productivity in Economics: Interaction Maps from the Complex Networks Approach
José Alberto Molina, Alberto Alcolea, Alfredo Ferrer, David Iñiguez, Alejandro Rivero, Gonzalo Ruiz, Alfonso Tarancón
published as 'Network analysis to measure academic performance in Economics' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 58, 995 - 1018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9983
Consumption Network Effects
Giacomo De Giorgi, Anders Frederiksen, Luigi Pistaferri
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (1), 130-163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9927
The Family Peer Effect on Mothers' Labour Supply
Cheti Nicoletti, Kjell G. Salvanes, Emma Tominey
published in: American Economics Journal: Applied Economics; 2018, 10 (3), 206 - 234
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9762
The Formation of Networks in the Diaspora
Gil S. Epstein, Odelia Heizler (Cohen)
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1136-1153
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9573
Informal versus Formal Search: Which Yields a Better Pay?
Semih Tumen
published in: International Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 12(3), 257-277
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9341
The Role of Social Networks in Cultural Assimilation
Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2017, 97, 15-39.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8896
Some Challenges in the Empirics of the Effects of Networks
Vincent Boucher, Bernard Fortin
published in: Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks, 2016, 277 - 302
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8664
Estimating Mis-reporting in Dyadic Data: Are Transfers Mutually Beneficial?
Margherita Comola, Marcel Fafchamps
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8641
Do Interventions Change the Network? A Panel Peer-Effect Model Accounting for Endogenous Network Changes
Margherita Comola, Silvia Prina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8104
Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection
Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, Matthias Sutter
slightly revised version published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82(5), 1615-1670
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7981
The Formation of Migrant Networks
Margherita Comola, Mariapia Mendola
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117(2), 592-618
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7925
The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Giovanni Mastrobuoni
published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (586), F256 - F288
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7487
Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation
Almas Heshmati, Flávio Lenz-Cesar
published in: Research Evaluation, 2015, 24(3), 293-311.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6380
Does Family Composition Affect Social Networking?
Odelia Heizler (Cohen), Ayal Kimhi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6223
Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games
Arno Riedl, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Martin Strobel
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2016, 83 (2), 737-767
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5859
Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency
Pieter A. Gautier, Christian Holzner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5787
Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion
Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou
published in: Quantitative Economics, 2016, 7, 969-995.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5506
Social Networks and Interactions in Cities
Robert W. Helsley, Yves Zenou
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 150, 426-466
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