We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers.
Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that …

This paper studies bandwagon effects in tourism travel decisions. We examine how social
influence affects individual decisions (i) to take a vacation trip, and (ii) the choice of …

Increasing mother's labor supply during a child's preschool years may reduce time
investments, yielding a negative direct effect on midchildhood and teenage outcomes. But …

We investigate the marked gender imbalance across subfields in economics and connect it
with the relative scarcity of female students enrolling in economics. First, tracking authorship …

Do students benefit differently from interacting with similar and diverse peers? Using register-
linked survey data from a stratified sample of Swedish classrooms I test whether …

Using a large sample of US-listed firms, we examine how firms' dividend payout decisions
are influenced by the dividend policies of their local peers. We find that the decisions to …

While smoking is widely acknowledged to be a social activity, limited evidence exists on the
extent to which friends influence each other during worksite-based tobacco cessation …

We investigate co‐worker peer effects in the use of parental leave in Sweden. We use an
instrumental variable approach called “peers of peers”, in which the parental leave taken by …

Peer effects are at the center of educational policy debates regarding school choice, ability
grouping, and instructional design. Though emerging empirical evidence suggests that …

This study maps early adulthood family life courses from ages 15 to 28 and tests whether
they are causally linked to neighbourhood conditions with an instrumental strategy in the …