Self-control and peer groups: An empirical analysis

Battaglini, Marco; Díaz, Carlos; Patacchini, Eleonora

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2016.12.018

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“…Our findings are consistent with a variety of different theories in economics about the importance of social comparisons in shaping individual behavior (see, e.g. Akerlof and Kranton, 2000;Battaglini et al, 2005Battaglini et al, , 2017Patacchini and Zenou, 2012;Patacchini and Venanzoni, 2014;Liu et al, 2014). They are also in line with the cross-country evidence documented by Blanchflower et al (2009).…”

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Weight, reference points, and the onset of eating disorders

Arduini

Iorio

Patacchini

2019

Journal of Health Economics

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We investigate whether the development of eating disorders, in the form of purging, is influenced by peers' body size through interpersonal comparisons. Using detailed information on recent cohorts of U.S. teenagers, we document a sizeable and significant negative effect of high school peers' body mass index (BMI) on purging behavior during the adolescence for females, but not for males. Interpersonal comparisons operate through the formation of a distorted self-perception: teenage girls with relatively thin female peers perceive themselves as heavier than they actually are. The girls who are more susceptible to peer influences are those having peers who are thinner, more popular, more (verbally) able, and with more educated parents.

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Weight, reference points, and the onset of eating disorders

Arduini

Iorio

Patacchini

2019

Journal of Health Economics

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“…However, as pointed out by Dolan et al (2008), it is difficult to ascertain the direction of causality. Battaglini et al (2017) provide evidence that students belonging to social groups have more self-control than students who are alone, with self-control increasing as the size of the social group increases.…”

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The Social Status-Enhancing Power of Social Ties

2017

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This paper shows that social variables capturing individuals' sociability as well as strength of their social ties play an important role in affecting where individuals locate themselves in the social ladder, also when their objective location within society is taken into account. Using data from the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) covering the period 2006-2012, we assess individuals' social ties and sociability through the number and quality of their friendships as well as a set of variables capturing their attitude towards others (loneliness, cynical hostility, social cohesion, discrimination and reciprocity). We find subjective social status to correlate positively with reciprocity and negatively with discrimination. Next, individuals that are more satisfied with their life seem disconnected from objective elements when subjectively evaluating their social status.

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“…They examine the Nash equilibrium of the resulting game of private transfers flow through altruism networks. On the other hand, several studies have extended the standard SAR model to capture some additional interesting network related effects (e.g., Ballester et al 2006; Battaglini et al 2017; Branas‐Garza, Cobo‐Reyes, Espinosa, et al 2010; Lin & Weinberg, 2014), although they fail to realize that these additional effects will show up in the SAR model under altruistic preferences. The incorporation of altruism into social interactions models has important modeling consequences and can provide microfoundations for these studies.…”

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“…For instance, Ballester et al (2006) examined how network centrality and individual position in the network affect social interactions and equilibrium outcomes. Battaglini, Díaz, and Patacchini (2017) investigated the direct externality effect generated by peers on the self‐control of students. Lin and Weinberg (2014) extended the standard SAR model to capture the peer effects generated by reciprocated, unreciprocated, and unchosen friends on adolescents' behaviors and outcomes.…”

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Social interactions and social preferences in social networks

Hsieh

2020

J of Applied Econometrics

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Summary We study social interactions when individuals hold altruistic preferences in social networks. Rich network features can be captured in the resulting best response function. The inward network links provide unique information for identifying the altruism effect. We demonstrate that the often ignored altruism is another serious confounding factor of peer effects. Specifically, the estimates of peer effects are approximately 36% smaller after taking into account social preferences. Furthermore, we could identify two types of effects caused by peers' outcomes: the spillover effects and the externality effects, which is impossible in a conventional social interactions model based on the self‐interest hypothesis.

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Self-control and peer groups: An empirical analysis

Cited by 20 publications

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Weight, reference points, and the onset of eating disorders

Weight, reference points, and the onset of eating disorders

The Social Status-Enhancing Power of Social Ties

Social interactions and social preferences in social networks

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