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The political influence of peer groups: experimental evidence in the classroom

Author(s) -

Camila F. S. Campos,

Shaun Hargreaves Heap,

Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

oxford economic papers

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.68

H-Index - 69

eISSN - 1464-3812

pISSN - 0030-7653

DOI - 10.1093/oep/gpw065

Subject(s) - politics , identification (biology) , peer effects , peer group , social psychology , group (periodic table) , group identification , psychology , political science , biology , law , ecology , chemistry , organic chemistry

People who belong to the same group often behave alike. Is this because people with similar preferences naturally associate with each other or because group dynamics cause individual preferences and/or the information that they have to converge? We address this question with a natural experiment. We find no evidence that peer political identification affects individual identification. But we do find that peer engagement affects political identification: a more politically engaged peer group encourages individual political affiliation to move from the extremes to the centre.

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