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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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4631

Mortgage Indebtedness and Household Financial Distress

Dimitris Georgarakos, Adriana Lojschova, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4521

Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy

Olof Aslund, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, Hans Grönqvist

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (2), 67-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4175

Migrants at School: Educational Inequality and Social Interaction in the UK and Germany

Horst Entorf, Eirini Tatsi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4010

Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald, Bert van Landeghem

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 528 - 538

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3948

Peer Pressure, Incentives, and Gender: An Experimental Analysis of Motivation in the Workplace

Charles Bellemare, Patrick Lepage, Bruce S. Shearer

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 276-283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3866

What Makes a Test Score? The Respective Contributions of Pupils, Schools, and Peers in Achievement in English Primary Education

Francis Kramarz, Stephen Machin, Amine Ouazad

published as 'Using Compulsory Mobility to Identify School Quality and Peer Effects' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77(4), 566–587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3639

The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity

Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo, Martin Sefton

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1346-1367; doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2012.01730.x

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3610

Weight Gain in Adolescents and Their Peers

Timothy J. Halliday, Sally Kwak

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 7 (2), 246-262

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3440

Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence

Tor Eriksson, Anders Poulsen, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 679-688

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3335

What Is a Peer? The Role of Network Definitions in Estimation of Endogenous Peer Effects

Timothy J. Halliday, Sally Kwak

published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (3), 289 - 302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3328

Learning Unethical Practices from a Co-worker: The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco

Eric D. Gould, Todd R. Kaplan

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18(3), 338-348

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3277

Residential Peer Effects in Higher Education: Does the Field of Study Matter?

Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48(3), 621-634

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3096

Interactions Between Workers and the Technology of Production: Evidence from Professional Baseball

Eric D. Gould, Eyal Winter

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2009, 91(1), 188–200

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2944

Interdependency in Performance

Kelii H. Haraguchi, Glen R. Waddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2883

Behavioural Economics and Drinking Behaviour: Preliminary Results from an Irish College Study

Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon, Patrick G. Wall

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46 (1), 29-36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2833

Be as Careful of the Books You Read as of the Company You Keep: Evidence on Peer Effects in Educational Choices

Giacomo De Giorgi, Michele Pellizzari, Silvia Redaelli

Revised version published as "Identifcation of Social Interactions through Partially Overlapping Peer Groups" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2(2), 241-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2652

Identification of Peer Effects through Social Networks

Yann Bramoullé, Habiba Djebbari, Bernard Fortin

revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2009, 150 (1), 41-55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2608

Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents’ Involvement?

Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

published as 'Neighborhood Effects and Parental Involvement in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (5), 987 - 1013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2490

Student Achievement and University Classes: Effects of Attendance, Size, Peers, and Teachers

Pedro S. Martins, Ian Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2250

Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions

Rafael Lalive, Maria Alejandra Cattaneo

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91(3), 457 - 477

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2182

Peer Effects, Social Multipliers and Migrants at School: An International Comparison

Horst Entorf, Martina Lauk

published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2008, 34(4), 633-654

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2077