Quantile Peer Effect Models

Simulating and estimating peer effect models including the quantile-based specification (Houndetoungan, 2025 ), and the models with Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES)-based social norm (Boucher et al., 2024 ).

QuantilePeer: An R package for Simulating and Estimation Quantile Peer Effect Models

Aristide Houndetoungan

Overview

The QuantilePeer package implements estimation and simulation routines for quantile peer effect models introduced in Houndetoungan (2025). Replication code for all results in the paper is available in the Results folder.

The package also includes functions to simulate and estimate the CES-based peer effect model developed by Boucher et al. (2024).

Installation

You can install the package directly from this GitHub repository using:

library(remotes)
install_github("ahoundetoungan/QuantilePeer")

Note for Windows users: Make sure Rtools is installed before installing from GitHub.

Getting Started

See the vignettes for detailed examples demonstrating how to use the package.