Social Interactions (Empirics)

The empirical economics literature on social interactions addresses the significance of the social context in economic decisions. Decisions of individuals who share a social milieu are likely to be interdependent. Recognizing the nature of such interdependence in a variety of conventional and unconventional settings and measuring empirically the role of social interactions poses complex econometric questions. Their resolution may be critical for a multitude of phenomena in economic and social life and of matters of public policy. Questions like why some countries are Catholic and others Protestant, why crime rates vary so much across cities in the same country, why fads exist and survive, and why there is residential segregation and neighbourhood tipping are all in principle issues that may be examined as social interactions phenomena.

[1]  Scott Drewianka.  Estimating Social Effects in Matching Markets: Externalities in Spousal Search , 2003, Review of Economics and Statistics.

[2]  Bruce Sacerdote,et al.  The Social Multiplier , 2002 .

[3]  D. Ginther,et al.  Neighborhood Attributes as Determinants of Children's Outcomes How Robust are the Relationships? , 2000 .

[4]  Mark Grinblatt,et al.  Interpersonal Effects in Consumption: Evidence from the Automobile Purchases of Neighbors , 2003 .

[5]  Erzo F. P. Luttmer.  Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being , 2004 .

[6]  A. Ichino,et al.  Clean Evidence on Peer Effects , 2006, Journal of Labor Economics.

[7]  Daniel Aaronson,et al.  Using sibling data to estimate the impact of neighborhoods on children's educational outcomes , 1998 .

[8]  Lawrence F. Katz,et al.  Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment , 2004 .

[9]  Steven N. Durlauf,et al.  Identification of binary choice models with social interactions , 2007 .

[10]  Kevin Lang,et al.  Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program , 2004, SSRN Electronic Journal.

[11]  Yannis M. Ioannides,et al.  Job Information Networks, Neighborhood Effects, and Inequality , 2004 .

[12]  E. Glaeser,et al.  Crime and Social Interactions , 1995 .

[13]  Linda P Datcher.  Effects of Community and Family Background on Achievement , 1982 .

[14]  C. Hoxby,et al.  Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation , 2000 .

[15]  C. Manski.  Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem , 1993 .

[16]  E. Duflo,et al.  The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment , 2002 .