Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income, and
unemployment rates. A growing class of place-based policies attempts to address these …

We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving
economic and financial decision-making. We first summarize recent work that documents an …

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 …

This chapter summarizes the recent literature on peer effects in student outcomes at the
elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. Linear-in-means models find modest …

This article investigates the role of mass media in times of conflict and state-sponsored mass
violence against civilians. We use a unique village-level data set from the Rwandan …

We estimate peer effects in paid paternity leave in Norway using a regression discontinuity
design. Coworkers and brothers are 11 and 15 percentage points, respectively, more likely …

We provide an overview and synthesis of the literatures analyzing games in which players
are connected via a network structure. We discuss, in particular, the impact of the structure of …

In this paper, I give a personal view on the development of the field of spatial econometrics
during the past 30 years. I argue that it has moved from the margins to the mainstream of …

Informality: Exit and Exclusion analyzes informality in Latin America, exploring root causes
and reasons for and implications of its growth. The authors use two distinct but …

This paper analyzes a randomized experiment to shed light on the role of information and
social interactions in employees' decisions to enroll in a Tax Deferred Account (TDA) …