Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom

Giacomo De Giorgi and Michele Pellizzari

No 19202, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior commonly observed in the data. We present a model where agents can interact according to three distinct mechanisms, and we derive testable implications which allow us to distinguish between the proposed mechanisms. In our application we study students' performance and we find that a mutual insurance mechanism is consistent with the data. Such a result bears important policy implications for all those situations in which social interactions are important, from teamwork to class formation in education and co-authorship in academic research.

JEL-codes: I21 J0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-07
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Published as Giacomo De Giorgi & Michele Pellizzari, 2014. "Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 124(579), pages 917-953, 09.

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