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Does Drinking Impair College Performance? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach

Carrell, Scott E. - 2010

significant reductions in academic performance, particularly for the highest-performing students. This suggests that the negative …

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Peer Quality and the Academic Benefits to Attending Better Schools

Hoekstra, Mark - 2016

Despite strong demand for attending high schools with better peers, there is mixed evidence on whether doing so improves academic outcomes. We estimate the cognitive returns to high school quality using administrative data on a high-stakes college entrance exam in China. To overcome selection...

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Schools, Neighborhoods, and the Long-Run Effect of Crime-Prone Peers

Billings, Stephen B. - 2019

This paper examines how elementary-aged peers affect cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes from adolescence to adulthood. We identify effects by exploiting within-school and within-neighborhood variation in the proportion of peers with an arrested parent. Results indicate exposure to these peers...

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The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers

Carrell, Scott E. - 2016

linking administrative data on elementary school students to subsequent test scores, college attendance and completion, and … children from families linked to domestic violence, who were shown by Carrell and Hoekstra (2010, 2012) to disrupt … reduces earnings at age 26 by 3 to 4 percent. We estimate that differential exposure to children linked to domestic violence …

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The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health : Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon

Mouganie, Pierre - 2020

An estimated 40 percent of the world's garbage is burned in open-air fires, which are responsible for as much as half of the global emissions of some pollutants. However, there is little evidence on the health consequences of open-air waste burning. In this paper, we estimate the effect of in...

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