We propose estimating gender peer effects in school by exploiting within-school variation in gender composition across …

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 … waves of the AddHealth data, looking at the impact of school friends nominated in the first wave in 1994-1995 on own …

The aim of this paper is to investigate and understand the effect of high-school friends on years of schooling. We … develop a simple network model where students first choose their friends and then decide how much effort they put in education … school peers nominated in the first two waves in 1994-1995 and in 1995-1996 on the educational outcome of teenagers reported …

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