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Peer effects heterogeneity and social networks in education
Shkoza, Livia; Uysal, Selver Derya; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2023
This study focuses on the role of heterogeneity in network peer effects by accounting for network-specific factors and different driving mechanisms of peer behavior. We propose a novel Multivariate Instrumental Variable (MVIV) estimator which is consistent for a large number of networks keeping...
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The effects of a high school curriculum reform on university enrollment and the choice of college major
Görlitz, Katja; Gravert, Christina - 2015
This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students ́probability to enroll at university … requirements. Based on administrative data covering all students, the empirical analysis is carried out by applying a difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010508574
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Preferred field of study and academic performance
Berlingieri, Francesco; Diegmann, André; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2022
study for a cohort of students in Germany. Using detailed survey data, and employing an instrumental variable strategy based … on variation in the local field of study availability, we provide evidence that students who are not enrolled in their … impact on dropout is particularly strong among students of low socio-economic status and is driven by lower academic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266282
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The impact of social media on belief formation
Schwarz, Marco - 2017
Social media are becoming increasingly important in our society and change the way people communicate, how they acquire information, and how they form beliefs. Experts are concerned that the rise of social media may make interaction and information exchange among like-minded individuals more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762816
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Earnings of university dropouts across Europe
Berlingieri, Francesco; Bolz, Theresa - 2020
This paper investigates relative earnings of individuals leaving tertiary education without a degree across 18 European countries employing survey data on adult workers. We find that, on average, university dropouts earn 8% more than those never enrolling into tertiary education, but 25% less...
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Persecution and escape
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476804
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Persecution and escape
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal eects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481039
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Social policy gone bad educationally : unintended peer effects from transferred students
Genakos, Christos; Kyrkopoulou, Eleni - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190167
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Filling in the blanks : network structure and interbank contagion
Anand, Kartik; Craig, Ben R.; Von Peter, Goetz - 2014
The pattern of financial linkages is important in many areas of banking and finance. Yet bilateral linkages are often unknown, and maximum entropy serves as the leading method for estimating unobserved counterparty exposures. This paper proposes an efficient alternative that combines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249740
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Contagious herding and endogenous network formation in financial networks
Georg, Co-Pierre - 2014
When banks choose similar investment strategies, the financial system becomes vulnerable to common shocks. Banks decide about their investment strategy ex-ante based on a private belief about the state of the world and a social belief formed from observing the actions of peers. When the social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405430