Gaviria, Alejandro; Raphael, Steven - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 83 (2001) 2, pp. 257-268
We use a sample of tenth-graders to test for peer-group influences on the propensity to engage in five activities: drug use, alcohol drinking, cigarette smoking, church going, and the likelihood of dropping out of high school. We find strong evidence of peer-group effects at the school level for...