Peer pressure or personal choice? How peer working hours shape individual working hours preferences
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Keywords
working hours; social comparisons; preference formation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- B55 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Social Economics
- D9 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DCM-2025-04-21 (Discrete Choice Models)
- NEP-EXP-2025-04-21 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HME-2025-04-21 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-LMA-2025-04-21 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-UPT-2025-04-21 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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