Clean Evidence on Peer Effects

By Armin Falk, Andrea Ichino. Journal of Labor Economics, 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Citations in the corpus

• Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms (2012, background): “Falk and Ichino (2006) report similar evidence on the effects of peer pressure in a recent non-laboratory experiment.”
• The Dark Side of Competition for Status (2014, methodology): “Under a flat wage scheme, Falk and Ichino (2006) and Mas and 10 Moretti (2009) show that peer effects increase productivity when workers can observe each others’ output.”
• Tournaments and Office Politics: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment (2010, methodology): “In terms of the underlying effort task, our experiment is similar to Konow (2000) or Falk and Ichino (2006) in that our 160 participants were asked to spend 30 minutes stuffing envelopes.”
• Contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior among peers and the role of social proximity (2019, background): “, 1990), productivity at work (Ichino and Maggi, 2000; Falk and Ichino, 2006; Mas and Moretti, 2009), juvenile behavior (Damm and Dustmann, 2014), and charitable giving (Meer, 2011; Smith et al.”
• Rank as an inherent incentive: Evidence from a field experiment ☆ (2012, background): “Falk and Ichino (2006) find that the performance of peers induces subjects to perform better even when better performance brings no monetary rewards.”
• Impact of Emotional Intelligence, Ethical Climate, and Behavior of Peers on Ethical Behavior of Nurses (2009, background): “Fortunately, controlled field experiments in labor economics has shown a clear evidence of peer effects on work behavior in the absence of confounding factors (Falk and Ichino, 2006).”
• Is Pay for Performance Detrimental to Innovation? (2009, methodology): “…tasks such as typing letters (Dickinson 1999), decoding a number from a grid of letters (Sillamaa 1999), cracking walnuts (Fahr and Irlenbusch 2000), solving two-variable optimization problems (van Dijk, Sonnemans, and van Winden 2001), and stuffing letters into envelopes (Falk and Ichino 2006).”
• Social Networks and Causal Inference (2013, background): “If this is not the case, there may be treatment interference between subjects in the treatment groups, which will impose a problem for estimating pairwise causal peer effects (Falk and Ichino 2006).”
• NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS: ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND LOOKING BEYOND THEM* (2010, neutral): “Falk and Ichino (2006) conduct a field experiment in which worker groups are randomly formed, and find that worker productivity is affected by peers in one’s team; Palacios-Huerta (2003) runs C© 2010, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. social interactions experiments in the lab and finds that learning…”
• Reference-Dependent Preferences: Evidence from Marathon Runners (2014, background): “(Other economic analyses of peer effects are found in Falk and Ichino, 2006, and Mas and Moretti, 2009.)”