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Peer Effects of the Same and Different Religions on Faithfulness: A Comparison between Indonesia and India

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2022
By employing questionnaire surveys to empirically examine peer effects on religious faithfulness, this study mainly compares Muslims in Indonesia and India as examples.
Muhammad Zilal Hamzah   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effective information channels for reducing costs of environmentally- friendly technologies: evidence from residential PV markets

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2013
Realizing the environmental benefits of solar photovoltaics (PV) will require reducing costs associated with perception, informational gaps and technological uncertainties.
Varun Rai, Scott A Robinson
doaj   +1 more source

The effectiveness and equity of public-private partnerships in education: A quasi-experimental evaluation of 17 countries

open access: yesEducation Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
I estimate achievement effects of education public-private partnerships (PPPs) in 17 countries on the 2009 PISA assessment. Enrollment in PPP schools is tied to student wealth and prior academic ability. PPP students outperform their public peers on half
Donald R. Baum
doaj   +1 more source

Reputation effects in peer-to-peer online markets: A meta-analysis∗

open access: yesSocial Science Research, 2021
Most online market exchanges are governed by reputation systems, which allow traders to comment on one another's behavior and attributes with ratings and text messages. These ratings then constitute sellers' reputations that serve as signals of their trustworthiness and competence.
Ruohuang Jiao   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Specialization and Performance: Evidence from NCAA 4 × 400 m Relay Times

open access: yesEconomies, 2020
This paper investigates the impact of having open 400 meter (400 m) runners on NCAA relay teams. Using data from 2012–2016 containing the top 100 4 × 400 m in each NCAA Division relay times for each year, it is found that more 400 m specialists lead to ...
Candon Johnson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analyse de l’impact du conformisme social sur l’adoption de l’e-learning dans un pays en développement

open access: yesRevue de la Régulation, 2022
Based on survey data conducted in 2015 on Cameroonian citizens and households, this paper analyzes the effects of social interaction on Internet use for researching information in relation to studies.
Novice Patrick Bakehe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tasting and consumer demand for wine: do peers and experts matter?

open access: yesAgricultural and Resource Economics Review
Expert and peer reviews and popularity are freely available both on the Internet and in printed materials for a variety of food products. Using two experimental studies with non-hypothetical tastings and auctions, we explore the impact of peer tasting ...
Nadeeka Weerasekara   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Driving Forces of Digital Transformation: Navigating Peer Effects in Industrial and Regional Ecosystems

open access: yesSystems
Understanding the systemic synergy of peer effects on digital transformation is essential for overcoming development bottlenecks and stimulating digital vitality across industrial and regional ecosystems.
Jun Dai, Mingcan Li
doaj   +1 more source

Regression Adjustments for Estimating the Global Treatment Effect in Experiments with Interference

open access: yesJournal of Causal Inference, 2019
Standard estimators of the global average treatment effect can be biased in the presence of interference. This paper proposes regression adjustment estimators for removing bias due to interference in Bernoulli randomized experiments.
Chin Alex
doaj   +1 more source

Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective [PDF]

open access: yesAutism, 2020
Effective information transfer requires social communication skills. As autism is clinically defined by social communication deficits, it may be expected that information transfer between autistic people would be particularly deficient.
Catherine J Crompton   +4 more
openaire   +5 more sources

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