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Do Friendship Networks Improve Female Education?

Hahn, Youjin; Islam, Asadul; Patacchini, Eleonora; … - 2017

We randomly assign more than 6,000 students from 150 primary schools in Bangladesh to work on math assignments in one of three settings: individually, in groups with random schoolmates, or in groups with friends. The groups consist of four people and are balanced by average cognitive ability and...

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Education Transmission and Network Formation

Boucher, Vincent; Del Bello, Carlo L.; Panebianco, Fabrizio - 2021

We propose a model of intergenerational transmission of education wherein children belong to either highly educated or … interactions with other low-educated students (i.e., homophily), which reduces the education effort of their parents and, thus … kids from different education backgrounds can be effective in reducing the education gap between them. …

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Neighborhood Effects in Education

Del Bello, Carlo L.; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2015

their friends, we revisit the importance of geographical proximity in shaping education outcomes. Our findings reveal no …

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Neighborhood Effects in Education

Bello, Carlo L. Del; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

their friends, we revisit the importance of geographical proximity in shaping education outcomes. Our findings reveal no …

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The Racial Test Score Gap and Parental Involvement in Britain

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We investigate the racial gap in test scores between black and white students in Britain both in levels and differences across the school years. We find that there is an increasing racial gap in test scores between ages 7 and 11, and a decreasing one between ages 11 and 16. Using the richness of...

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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents’ Involvement?

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents’ involvement in education on … quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents’ involvement in children’s education, indicating cultural complementarity …

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