The study of social interactions has enriched both the domain of inquiry of economists and
the way economists conceptualize individual decision making. The review aims to introduce …

This chapter reviews studies conducted in naturally occurring work environments or in the
laboratory on the impact of the provision of performance feedback and peer effects on …

I follow The Design of Experiments, using randomization statistical inference to test the null
hypothesis of no treatment effects in a comprehensive sample of 53 experimental papers …

We organized business associations for the owner-managers of young Chinese firms to
study the effect of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,820 firms into …

Individual outcomes are highly correlated with group average outcomes, a fact often
interpreted as a causal peer effect. Without covariates, however, outcome-on-outcome peer …

Abstract In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly
assigned to classrooms within their schools from kindergarten to third grade. This article …

Using a high‐stakes field experiment conducted with a financial brokerage, we implement a
novel design to separately identify two channels of social influence in financial decisions …

Motivated by the prevalence of economic targets at all levels of territory administration in
China, this article proposes a Tullock contest model to study optimal target setting in a multi …

Existing evidence on peer effects in the productivity of coworkers stems from either
laboratory experiments or real-world studies referring to a specific firm or occupation. In this …

We investigate how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM
at college. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation …