Back to The Undercover Economist homepageI’ve written before about peer effects, always a fascinating topic. They don’t apply to professional golfers, it seems:
This paper uses the random assignment of playing partners in professional golf tournaments to test for peer effects in the workplace. We find no evidence that the ability of playing partners affects the performance of professional golfers, contrary to recent evidence on peer effects in the workplace from laboratory experiments, grocery scanners, and soft-fruit pickers.
The NBER paper is here.
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