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What is a peer? : the role of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects
Halliday, Timothy J. (contributor); Kwak, Sally (contributor) - 2008
that alters the peer group mix at the classroom or cohort level. -- Peer effects ; education ; adolescent health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656911
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What Is a Peer? The Role of Network Definitions in Estimation of Endogenous Peer Effects
Halliday, Timothy; Kwak, Sally - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We employ a standard identification strategy from the peer effects literature to investigate the importance of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects. We use detailed information on friends in the Adolescent Longitudinal Health Survey (Add Health) to construct two network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822514
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Bad Apples, Goody Two Shoes and Average Joes: The Role of Peer Group Definitions in Estimation of Peer Effects
Halliday, Timothy J.; Kwak, Sally - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2007
policy debates including school vouchers, special education, middle school grade configurations and tracking. Researchers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766438
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What is a Peer? The Role of Network Definitions in Estimation of Endogenous Peer Effects
Halliday, Timothy; Kwak, Sally - 2021
We employ a standard identification strategy from the peer effects literature to investigate the importance of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects. We use detailed information on friends in the Adolescent Longitudinal Health Survey (Add Health) to construct two network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325345
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Unlucky to be young? : the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health
Bahrs, Michael; Schumann, Mathias - 2016
In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood. School entry rules combined with birth month are used as an instrument for school starting age. The analysis adopts the German Socio-Economic Panel data and employs a fuzzy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533515
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Weight Gain in Adolescents and Their Peers
Halliday, Timothy; Kwak, Sally - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Despite the urgent public health implications, relatively little is yet known about the effect of peers on adolescent weight gain. We describe trends and features of adolescent BMI in a nationally representative dataset and document correlations in weight gain among peers. We find strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233795
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Identifying Endogenous Peer Effects in the Spread of Obesity
Halliday, Timothy J.; Kwak, Sally - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2007
Recent research in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) purports to show the existence of peer effects in the spread of obesity. Using a dataset of 5124 residents from Framingham, Massachusetts spanning the years 1971 to 2003, the authors show correlations between own weight gain and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765395
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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325854
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The health returns to education: what can we learn from twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268848
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Education, health and wages
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2014
responses to education and find evidence for substantial heterogeneity in unobserved variables on which agents make choices. The … estimated treatment effects of education are decomposed into the direct benefits of attaining a given level of schooling and … estimated treatment effects. While the estimated causal effects of education are substantial for most outcomes, we also estimate …
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