IZA Discussion Papers

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. 14037

Between the Dockyard and the Deep Blue Sea: Retention and Personnel Economics in the Royal Navy

Darrell J. Glaser, Ahmed S. Rahman

published in: Labour Economics 2023, 84, 102407

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14014

The Distinct Impact of Information and Incentives on Cheating

Julien Benistant, Fabio Galeotti, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Competition, information, and the erosion of morals' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 204, 148-163,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13968

High-Ability Influencers? The Heterogeneous Effects of Gifted Classmates

Simone Balestra, Aurélien Sallin, Stefan C. Wolter

published in: Journal of Human Resources 2023, 58 (2), 633-665;

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13965

When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times

Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti, Fabrizio Zilibotti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13906

Parents, Neighbors and Youth Crime

Carlos Díaz, Eleonora Patacchini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13872

Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success

Jan Bietenbeck

revised version published online as 'Do Motivated Classmates Matter for Educational Success?' in: Economic Journal, 27 June 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13680

Peers, Gender, and Long-Term Depression

Corrado Giulietti, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou

published in: European Economic Review, 144, 104084, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13464

School Choice Design, Risk Aversion, and Cardinal Segregation

Caterina Calsamiglia, Francisco Martínez-Mora, Antonio Miralles

published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (635), 1081–1104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13448

Peer Effects and Fertility Preferences in China: Evidence from the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey

Peng Nie, Lu Wang, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published online in: Singapore Economic Review, 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13396

The Effect of Peer Gender on Major Choice in Business School

Ulf Zölitz, Jan Feld

published in: Management Science, 2021, 67 (11), 6936-6979

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13313

Comparative Advantage and Gender Gap in STEM

Sofoklis Goulas, Silvia Griselda, Rigissa Megalokonomou

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (6), 1937-1980

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13161

It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects

Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti, Fabrizio Zilibotti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13127

Sibling Spillover in Rural China: A Story of Sisters and Daughters

Cynthia Bansak, Xuan Jiang, Guanyi Yang

published as 'Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters' in: China Economic Review, 2022, 76, 101873

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13111

Does Domestic Violence Jeopardize the Learning Environment of Peers within the School? Peer Effects of Exposure to Domestic Violence in Urban Peru

Italo A. Gutierrez, Oswaldo Molina

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. 12789

Ordinal Rank and Peer Composition: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Marco Bertoni, Roberto Nistico

published as 'Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 217, 104797

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12763

Not Only in My Genes: The Effects of Peers' Genotype on Obesity

Giorgio Brunello, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, 102349

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12582

Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in STEM Participation

Anne Ardila Brenøe, Ulf Zölitz

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38 (4), 1009-1054

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12534

Crime and Networks: 10 Policy Lessons

Matthew J. Lindquist, Yves Zenou

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019, 35 (4), 746 - 771

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12455

High-Performing Peers and Female STEM Choices in School

Pierre Mouganie, Yaojing Wang

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38 (3), 805 - 841

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12202

Peer Diversity, College Performance and Educational Choices

Arnaud Chevalier, Ingo E. Isphording, Elena Lisauskaite

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 64, 101833

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12108

The Economics of Parenting

Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti, Fabrizio Zilibotti

published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2019, 11, 55-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12054

Education Spillovers within the Workplace

Kristian Hedeager Bentsen, Jakob R. Munch, Georg Schaur

published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 175, 57-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11919

Competing on the Holodeck: The Effect of Virtual Peers and Heterogeneity in Dynamic Tournaments

Frederik Graff, Christian Grund, Christine Harbring

published in: Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics 2021, 90, 101596

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11910

Does the Girl Next Door Affect Your Academic Outcomes and Career Choices?

Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yi Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11909

Race-Blind Admissions, School Segregation, and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Race-Blind Magnet School Lotteries

Jason B. Cook

published as 'Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11770

Is Good Health Contagious? The Impact of BMI Environment on Individual BMI

Caitlin McKennie, Laura M. Argys, Andrew I. Friedson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11546

Learning Hope and Optimism: Classmate Experiences and Adolescent Development

Jason M. Fletcher, Jin Ho Kim

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26 (5), 409-412

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11419

The Returns to Schooling Unveiled

Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes, Pedro Portugal, Hugo Reis

part 1 of this paper published online as 'What Lies Behind the Returns to Schooling: The Role of Labor Market Sorting and Worker Heterogeneity' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 22 August 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11365

The Impact of Self-Selection on Performance

Lukas Kiessling, Jonas Radbruch, Sebastian Schaube

substantially revised version published as ' Self-Selection of Peers and Performance' in Management Science, 2022, 68 (11), 7793 - 8514

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11334

Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance

Gordon B. Dahl, Anne C. Gielen

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (2), 116-150

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. 11200

Parents, Siblings and Schoolmates: The Effects of Family-School Interactions on Educational Achievement and Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Cappellari

published as 'Who benefits from privileged peers? Evidence from siblings in schools' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (7), 893 - 916

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11124

Building Human or Criminal Capital? School Peer Effects on Future Offending

Britt Ostergaard Larsen, Nicolai Kristensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11027

The Effect of Immigrant Peers in Vocational Schools

Tommaso Frattini, Elena Meschi

published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 1-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11024

The Persistent Effects of Short-Term Peer Groups in Higher Education

Petra Thiemann

revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68( 2), 1131-1148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10797

Adults Behaving Badly: The Effects of Own and Peer Parents' Incarceration on Adolescent Criminal Activities

Jason M. Fletcher

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10783

How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-To-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking

Erik O. Kimbrough, Andrew McGee, Hitoshi Shigeoka

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 304-339.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10743

Foreign Peer Effects and STEM Major Choice

Massimo Anelli, Kevin Y. Shih, Kevin Williams

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10701

Cognitive, Socioemotional and Behavioral Returns to College Quality

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal

published as 'Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (3), 587 - 601

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10588

Gender and Peer Effects in Social Networks

Julie Beugnot, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 207-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10586

Girls Helping Girls: The Impact of Female Peers on Grades and Educational Choices

Pal Schone, Kristine von Simson, Marte Strom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10526

Parents and Peers: Parental Neighbourhood- and School-Level Variation in Individual Neighbourhood Outcomes over Time

Elise de Vuijst, Maarten van Ham

published in: European Sociological Review, 2019, 35 (1), 15–28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10483

Brothers in Arms: Spillovers from a Draft Lottery

Paul Bingley, Petter Lundborg, Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 06 August 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10384

Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Tournaments: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan

Alison L. Booth, Eiji Yamamura

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (4), 581 - 593

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10238

Does Classroom Gender Composition Affect School Dropout?

Bulent Anil, Duygu Guner, Tuba Toru Delibasi, Gokce Uysal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10173

Peer Effects in Parental Leave Decisions

Clara Welteke, Katharina Wrohlich

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56 (2), 146-163.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10070

Young Adults Living with Their Parents and the Influence of Peers

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Ezgi Kaya

published in: The Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (3), 689-713

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10065

The Impact of Immigrant Peers on Native Students' Academic Achievement in Countries Where Parents of Immigrants Are Relatively Skilled

Kelvin Seah

published in: Australian Economic Review, 2021, 54(1), 94-116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9985

Neighborhood Effects, Peer Classification, and the Decision of Women to Work

Nuno Mota, Eleonora Patacchini, Stuart S. Rosenthal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9984

Gendered Entrepreneurship Networks

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

revised version published as 'The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship - The Role of Peer Effects' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 134, 356-373

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

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