7 papers
Asymmetries in Peer Effects
Aristide Houndetoungan, Mathieu Lambotte
Individuals are often influenced by their peers because deviating from prevailing behavior entails social costs. However, existing peer effects models typically assume that individ…
Identifying Peer Effects in Networks with Unobserved Effort and Isolated Students
Aristide Houndetoungan, Cristelle Kouame, Michael Vlassopoulos
Peer influence on effort devoted to some activity is often studied when effort is unobserved, and the researcher instead observes an outcome that combines effort with other shocks.…
Count Data Models with Heterogeneous Peer Effects under Rational Expectations
Aristide Houndetoungan
This paper develops a peer effect model for count responses under rational expectations. The model accounts for heterogeneity in peer effects across groups based on observed charac…
Estimating Peer Effects Using Partial Network Data
Vincent Boucher, Aristide Houndetoungan
We study the estimation of peer effects through social networks when researchers do not observe the entire network structure. Special cases include sampled networks, censored netwo…
Quantile Peer Effect Models
Aristide Houndetoungan
I propose a flexible structural model to estimate peer effects across various quantiles of the peer outcome distribution. The model allows peers with low, intermediate, and high ou…
Identification of Heterogeneous Peer Effects
Eyo I. Herstad, Aristide Houndetoungan, Myungkou Shin
We develop a model of peer effects where each peer has a separate effect depending on their rank in the distribution of peers' outcomes. Our model admits a unique equilibrium, and…