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Estimating peer effects among college students : evidence from a field experiment of one-to-one pairings in STEM
Fairlie, Robert W.; Oliver, Daniel; Millhauser, Glenn; … - 2024
several major problems some of which cannot be solved even with random assignment. We design a field experiment and propose a … observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships …
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Uncertain longevity and investment in education
Sheshinski, Eytan - 2009
It has been argued that increased life expectancy raises the rate of return on education, causing a rise in the investment in education followed by an increase in lifetime labor supply. Empirical evidence of these relations is rather weak. Building on a lifecycle model with uncertain longevity,...
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Is Prescott right? : welfare state policies and the incentives to work, learn and retire
Jacobs, Bas (contributor) - 2008
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Conditional gender peer effects?
Iversen, Jon Marius Vaag; Bonesrønning, Hans - 2014
While the current empirical literature on peer group effects in schools highlights that credible causal peer effects cannot be estimated unless parental sorting is taken into account, the present paper highlights that causal peer effects might be conditional on the learning environment in which...
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Own motivation, peer motivation, and educational success
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020
I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking...
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Informal social interactions, academic achievement and behavior : evidence from peers on the school bus
Lenard, Matthew A.; Silliman, Mikko - 2024
We study the effects of informal social interactions on academic achievement and behaviour using idiosyncratic variation in peer groups stemming from changes in bus routes across elementary, middle, and high school. Our results suggest that student interactions outside the classroom—especially...
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Leaving home with a partner
Bentolila, Samuel; Méndez Martínez, Ildefonso; … - 2015
Leaving the parental home is often a decision made together by two people. In this paper we present a theoretical model analyzing moving out as a joint decision and then test its implications using a new dataset of university graduates collected in the southern Spanish region of Murcia in...
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Gender of siblings and choice of college major
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2013
In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …
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Family background and the responses to higher SAT scores
Graetz, George; Öckert, Björn; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2020
Using discontinuities within the Swedish SAT system, we show that additional admission opportunities causally affect college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and fields in ways that appear consistent with basic economic theory. In contrast, very talented...
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Froebel's gifts : how the kindergarten movement changed the American family
Ager, Philipp; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020
Public educators and philanthropists in the late 19th century United States promoted the establishment of kindergartens in cities as a remedy for the social problems associated with industrialization and immigration. Between 1880 and 1910, more than seven thousand kindergartens opened their...
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