Peer Effects in Employment Status: Evidence from Housing Lotteries for Forced Evacuees in Fukushima

Ayako Kondo and Masahiro Shoji

No 9708, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Does a high peer employment rate increase individual employment probability? We exploit the random assignment of temporary housing to evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident to identify the effect of neighbors' employment rates on an individual's probability of finding a job post-evacuation. Using unique survey data collected in 14 clusters of temporary housing 2.5 years after the accident, we find a significantly positive peer effect: a one standard deviation increase in the initial employment rate of an individual's peers makes the hazard of restarting work 1.53 times larger during the six months after housing move-in.

Keywords: neighborhood effect; peer effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2016-02
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Published - published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 113, 103195

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