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Peer effects and social networks in education

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2008

This paper studies whether structural properties of friendship networks affect individual outcomes in education. We first develop a model that shows that, at the Nash equilibrium, the outcome of each individual embedded in a network is proportional to her Katz-Bonacich centrality measure. This...

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Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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Co-authorship and Academic Productivity in Economics: Interaction Maps from the Complex Networks Approach

Molina, José Alberto; Alcolea, Alberto; Ferrer, Alfredo; … - 2016

We explore the relationship between collaborations in writing papers and the academic productivity of economists and, particularly, we describe the magnitude and intensity of co-authorship among economists. To that end, we employ interaction maps from Complex Systems methods to study the global...

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Residential Noise Exposure and Health: Evidence from Aviation Noise and Birth Outcomes

Argys, Laura M.; Averett, Susan L.; Yang, Muzhe - 2019

), we examine the impact of exposure to excessive noise levels on birth outcomes. Using birth records that include mothers … mothers living near the airport in the direction of the runway. We utilize exogenous variation in noise exposure triggered by … NextGen, which unintentionally increased noise in communities affected by the new flight patterns. Our finding informs policy …

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