IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Who benefits from privileged peers? Evidence from siblings in schools' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, First published: 12 June 2020

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

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

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

Forthcoming as 'Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality' in: Review of Economics and Statistics

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

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

Forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018.

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

forthcoming in: Australian Economic Review, 2020

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9795

Heterogeneous Effects of High School Peers on Educational Outcomes

Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Ian Walker

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (3), 613 - 634

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9714

Smoking Peer Effects among Adolescents: Are Popular Teens More Influential?

Juan David Robalino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9661

Gender and Racial Differences in Peer Effects of Limited English Students: A Story of Language or Ethnicity?

Timothy M. Diette, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2017, 6:2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9661

Gender and Racial Differences in Peer Effects of Limited English Students: A Story of Language or Ethnicity?

Timothy M. Diette, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2017, 6:2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9661

Gender and Racial Differences in Peer Effects of Limited English Students: A Story of Language or Ethnicity?

Timothy M. Diette, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2017, 6:2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9615

The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing

Simon Gächter, Leonie Gerhards, Daniele Nosenzo

revised version published in European Economic Review 97, August 2017, 72-86; doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.06.001

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. 9478

Rank, Sex, Drugs, and Crime

Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(2), 356-381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9473

A Theory of Intra-Firm Group Design

Semih Tumen

published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2016, 45(1), 89-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9449

The Long-Term Impacts of Low-Achieving Childhood Peers: Evidence from Project STAR

Jan Bietenbeck

revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18(1), 392-426

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9448

Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects

Jan Feld, Ulf Zölitz

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35(2) 387-428

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9149

Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior

Arindrajit Dube, Laura Giuliano, Jonathan Leonard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9121

A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment

Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35(3), 787-828

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9119

Peers' Composition Effects in the Short and in the Long Run: College Major, College Performance and Income

Massimo Anelli, Giovanni Peri

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 553-602

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9087

Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain

Bernard Fortin, Myra Yazbeck

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 125-138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9051

Peer Effects on Obesity in a Sample of European Children

Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Lucia A. Reisch, Karin Bammann, Gabriele Eiben, Yiannis Kourides, Eva Kovács, Fabio Lauria, Kenn Konstabel, Alba M. Santaliestra-Pasias, Krishna Vyncke, Iris Pigeot

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 18, 139–152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8769

Ability Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Adam S. Booij, Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek

forthcoming in: Review of Economic Studies

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8734

Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment: Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra

Kalena E. Cortes, Joshua Goodman, Takako Nomi

published in: The Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(1): 108-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8713

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Sibling Effects in Household Formation

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, Veruska Oppedisano

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2016, 14 (4), 1007 - 1027

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8695

Beyond the Average: Peer Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education

Tanika Chakraborty, Olga Nottmeyer, Simone Schüller, Klaus F. Zimmermann

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 163, 551–569. [Abstract & Download]

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. 8615

Sibling Spillover Effects in School Achievement

Cheti Nicoletti, Birgitta Rabe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8528

Peer Effects on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in China

Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Xiaobo He

published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 35, 47-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8133

Gender Differences in Shirking: Monitoring or Social Preferences? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Per Johansson, Arizo Karimi, Peter Nilsson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8012

Key Players in Co-Offending Networks

Matthew J. Lindquist, Yves Zenou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7897

The Long-Term Effects of Early Track Choice

Christian Dustmann, Patrick A. Puhani, Uta Schönberg

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1348–1380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7856

Gender and Race Heterogeneity: The Impact of Increases in Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance

Timothy M. Diette, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2014, 104 (5), 412-417

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7720

Spillover Effects of Studying with Immigrant Students: A Quantile Regression Approach

Asako Ohinata, Jan C. van Ours

published as 'Quantile Peer Effects of Immigrant Children at Primary Schools' in: Labour, 2016, 30 (2), 135 - 157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7694

Peer Effects in Disadvantaged Primary Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Heather Antecol, Ozkan Eren, Serkan Ozbeklik

forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7523

Peer Pressure and Productivity: The Role of Observing and Being Observed

Sotiris Georganas, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 117, 223-232.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7521

Social Networks and Peer Effects at Work

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6790

The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Parag A. Pathak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6770

School and Drugs: Closing the Gap – Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the US

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Behavior & Economics, July 2017, vol. 139: 166-181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6681

Peer Effects in Program Participation

Gordon B. Dahl, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Magne Mogstad

published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (7), 2049-2074

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6561

Do Significant Immigrant Inflows Create Negative Education Impacts? Lessons from the North Carolina Public School System

Timothy M. Diette, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (5), 446-461

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6475

Quitting and Peer Effects at Work

Julie Rosaz, Robert Slonim, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 39, 55-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6455

Peer Effects: Evidence from Secondary School Transition in England

Stephen Gibbons, Shqiponja Telhaj

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6446

Social Insurance Networks

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(4), 1081-1113

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6345

Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences?

Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo, Martin Sefton

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (3), 548-573; doi:10.1111/jeea.12015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6277

Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation

Christian Thöni, Simon Gächter

a revised version is published as: 'Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation: A theoretical and experimental analysis' in: Journal of Economic Psychology.48, 72-88, 2015; doi:10.1016/j.joep.2015.03.001

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6212

How Immigrant Children Affect the Academic Achievement of Native Dutch Children

Asako Ohinata, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), F308-F331

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6164

The Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles: Evidence from Personnel Data

Andries de Grip, Jan Sauermann, Inge Sieben

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 126, 39-54 - substantially revised version can be downloaded here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5976

The Effects of Training on Own and Co-Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Andries de Grip, Jan Sauermann

published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (559), 376-399

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5922

Classroom Grade Composition and Pupil Achievement

Edwin Leuven, Marte Rønning

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(593), 1164-1192 [Online First]

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. 5648

Altruism in Society: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Commuters

Redzo Mujcic, Paul Frijters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5624

Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom

Giacomo De Giorgi, Michele Pellizzari

published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124(579), 917–953

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4968

Mentoring, Educational Services, and Economic Incentives: Longer-Term Evidence on Risky Behaviors from a Randomized Trial

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

results were published in the paper 'Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 121–39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4946

Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 31 (1) 2013, 119-153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4723

Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation

Vincent Boucher, Yann Bramoullé, Habiba Djebbari, Bernard Fortin

revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29 (1), 91-109

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