the quality of the neighborhood in terms of human capital, the higher the parent’s involvement in children’s education …, indicating cultural complementarity. For highly educated parents, we also find that both parents’ involvement in education and … neighborhood’s quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of education, the former being more potent than the …

We study peer effects in education. We first develop a network model that predicts a relationship between own education … and peers’ education as measured by direct links in the social network. We then test this relationship using the four … education since a standard deviation increase in peers’ education attainment translates into roughly a 10 percent increase of a …

develop a simple network model where students first choose their friends and then decide how much effort they put in education … in the fourth wave in 2007-2008 (when adult). We find that there are strong and persistent peer effects in education but …

their family situation at the time. We compare college-based interaction to other forms of social interaction, such as …

, and uses these variables as instruments to estimate returns to education, with the help of a rich set of individual data … educational achievements of individuals, as well as many aspects of family background, including birth order, number of sisters … two stage method is used to estimate log-wage equations, taking care of education endogeneity, using birth order and the …

alternative mechanisms of social interactions to study peer effects in education, sport and screen activities for adolescents in … of their friends (local-aggregate model) while, for education, we show that both the aggregate performance at school of …