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May 5, 2021

Relative comparisons affect performance and choices in college

Whether someone is a big fish in a little pond is largely a matter of luck, but it changes how students behave

  • higher education
  • peer effects
  • rank
  • social comparisons
  • Benjamin Elsner
  • Ingo E. Isphording
  • Ulf Zölitz
Research

June 14, 2019

Exposure to “high-achieving” boys in high school may harm girls in the long run

Effects on educational and labor market outcomes

  • achievement
  • education
  • gender
  • high school
  • peer effects
  • Angela Cools
  • Eleonora Patacchini
  • Raquel Fernández
Research

March 15, 2018

The impact of self-selection on performance

Our behavior is strongly influenced by comparisons with others. These “others” are not usually assigned to us, but we choose […]

  • choice
  • experiment
  • field experiment
  • motivation
  • peer effects
  • performance
  • preferences
  • self-selection
  • Jonas Radbruch
  • Lukas Kießling
  • Sebastian Schaube
Research

February 1, 2017

Three mechanisms to boost firm productivity

Monetary incentives are not always the most cost-effective way to make employees more productive. Three recent IZA World of Labor […]

  • emotions
  • employee ownership
  • firm performance
  • firm productivity
  • happiness
  • IZA World of Labor
  • peer effects
  • productivity
  • spillover effects
  • Douglas Kruse
  • Eugenio Proto
  • Thomas Cornelissen
Research

August 2, 2016

Peer effects! Peer effects everywhere! Whether you are shopping, working, leaving the nest…

Does the social environment influence what individuals buy? Are mothers more likely to work when other women in the neighborhood […]

  • adolescents
  • consumption
  • female labor supply
  • labor market behavior
  • nest-leaving
  • parental home
  • peer effects
  • social environment
  • spending
  • Anders Frederiksen
  • Effrosyni (Efi) Adamopoulou
  • Eleonora Patacchini
  • Ezgi Kaya
  • Giacomo De Giorgi
  • Luigi Pistaferri
  • Nuno Mota
  • Stuart S. Rosenthal
Research

July 20, 2016

How female labor supply is influenced by working neighbors and retired grandmothers

Over the last century, female labor participation has increased in almost all developed countries. The availability of child care and […]

  • childcare
  • children
  • cultural norms
  • female employment
  • female labor supply
  • grandparents
  • labor market
  • neighborhood peer effects
  • peer effects
  • women
  • Cheti Nicoletti
  • Eleonora Patacchini
  • Emma Tominey
  • Francesco Scervini
  • Kjell G. Salvanes
  • Massimiliano Bratti
  • Nuno Mota
  • Stuart S. Rosenthal
  • Tommaso Frattini
Research

November 27, 2015

Rank, sex, drugs and crime: How relative ability affects adolescents’ risky behaviors

Parents, teachers and policymakers alike are concerned with adolescents engaging in risky practices, such as drug abuse, unprotected sex, or […]

  • adolescents
  • crime
  • drinking
  • drug use
  • education
  • high school dropouts
  • peer effects
  • rank
  • relative ability
  • risky behavior
  • sex
  • teenagers
  • Benjamin Elsner
  • Ingo E. Isphording
Research

October 14, 2013

Peer effects at work are smaller than often suggested

What happens to a worker’s own productivity if one of her less productive colleagues is replaced by a highly productive […]

  • co-workers
  • colleagues
  • peer effects
  • productivity
  • wage inequality
  • Christian Dustmann
  • Thomas Cornelissen
  • Uta Schönberg

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