3 papers
econ.EM2026
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…
econ.EM2025
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…
econ.EM2025
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…