IZA Discussion Papers

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

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

substantially revised version published as '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 - 139

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

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