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#488 Erik Kimbrough: Norms, Institutions, Impersonal Exchange, Specialization, and Organ Donation

The Dissenter

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The Effect of Peer-to-Peer Interventions on Teen Smoking Behavior

"I was invited on to that project to help them measure norms related to smoking so there are two interventions being conducted side-by-side one of which is a peer-to-peer intervention they find sort of the most influential peer and then have that peer deliver a curriculum. The other intervention is more of a traditional top-down the teachers tell you about the dangers of smoking" "Having all those pieces of the puzzle simultaneously is something that to my knowledge no study other than ours has had," she says. with mm-hmm what about the lesson smoking how can we tackle that problem? She replies: "We're collecting data that most people don't collect when they run these interventions

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