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Article dans une revue |
Titre |
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Peer effects, self-selection and dishonesty
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Résumé |
en
If individuals tend to behave like their reference group, is it because of peer effects, selfselection, or both? Using a peer effect model allowing for conformity and link formation, we designed a real-effort laboratory experiment in which individuals could misreport their performance and select their peers. Our results reveal both a preference for conformity and homophilous link formation, but only among individuals cheating in isolation. This suggests that such link formation was not motivated by a taste for similarity but by acquiring self-serving information. Importantly, we reject the presence of a self-selection bias in the peer effect estimates by showing that the size of peer effects is similar when identical peers were randomly assigned and when individuals selected them.
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Auteur(s)
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Liza Charroin
1
, Bernard Fortin
2
, Marie Claire Villeval
3, 4
1
CES -
Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne
( 15080 )
- Maison des Sciences Économiques - 106-112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75647 Paris Cedex 13
- France
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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne UMR8174 ( 7550 )
;
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8174 ( 441569 )
2
ULaval -
Université Laval [Québec]
( 93488 )
- 2325, rue de l'Université Québec G1V 0A6
- Canada
3
GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne -
Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne
( 1169842 )
- 93, chemin des Mouilles 69130 Écully 6, rue Basse des Rives 42023 Saint-Étienne cedex 02
- France
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École normale supérieure de Lyon ( 6818 )
;
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Université Lumière - Lyon 2 ( 33804 )
;
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Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne ( 300284 )
;
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR5824 ( 441569 )
4
IZA -
Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Institute of Labor Economics
( 237214 )
- Schaumburg-Lippe-Str. 5-9 D-53113 Bonn Germany
- Allemagne
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Date de publication |
2022
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Date de publication électronique |
2022-07-01
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Nom de la revue |
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Audience |
Internationale
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Volume |
200
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Page/Identifiant |
618-637
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Domaine(s) |
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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances
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Mots-clés (JEL) |
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D - Microeconomics/D.D9 - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics/D.D9.D91 - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
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C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C9 - Design of Experiments/C.C9.C92 - Laboratory, Group Behavior
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D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty/D.D8.D83 - Search • Learning • Information and Knowledge • Communication • Belief • Unawareness
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D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty/D.D8.D85 - Network Formation and Analysis: Theory
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Projet(s) ANR |
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Mots-clés |
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Peer effects, Self-selection, Homophily, Dishonesty, Experiment
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DOI |
10.1016/j.jebo.2022.06.024 |