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Networks and Workouts : Treatment Size and Status Specific Peer Effects in a Randomized Field Experiment
Babcock, Philip - 2010
their peers. Findings demonstrate that fraction treated has a large influence on outcomes in this environment, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135398
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The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers : Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
Chetty, Raj - 2012
Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has sparked debate largely because of disagreement about (1) whether value-added (VA) provides unbiased estimates of teachers' impacts on student achievement and (2) whether high-VA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112797
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Marriage Meets the Joneses : Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status
Watson, Tara - 2009
In this paper we investigate the effect of relative income on marital status. We develop an identity model based on Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and apply it to the marriage decision. The empirical evidence is consistent with the idea that people are more likely to marry when their incomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764627
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Inequality at Birth : Some Causes and Consequences
Currie, Janet - 2011
Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and participation in social programs. In turn, endowments at birth are predictive of adult outcomes, and of the outcomes of future generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129227
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The Exchange Theory of Teenage Smoking and the Counterproductiveness of Moderate Regulation
Smetters, Kent A.; Gravelle, Jennifer - 2021
About three-quarters of secondary schools are reluctant to vigorously enforce smoking bans due to various social pressures; ten percent of these schools do not have bans at all. Empirically, school-based smoking regulations appear, at best, ineffective at reducing teenage smoking and, more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249542
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Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends
Card, David - 2011
We study social interactions in the risky behavior of best-friend pairs in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use, truancy) by the first wave of the survey, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124547
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The Influence of Peer Genotypes and Behavior on Smoking Outcomes : Evidence from Add Health
Sotoudeh, Ramina - 2017
relationship between peer genotypes and ego smoking and find that the impact of peers' genetic risk for smoking on ego's smoking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941173
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It Takes a Village : The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects
Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2021
parental inputs and peers, and where parents can affect the peer group by restricting who their children can interact with. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313255
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Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults
Black, Sandra E. - 2010
little is known about the effect of school peers on the long-run outcomes of teenagers. This is primarily due to two factors …: the absence of information on peers merged with long-run outcomes of individuals and, equally important, the difficulty of … separately identifying the role of peers. This paper uses data on the population of Norway and idiosyncratic variation in cohort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143184
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Conspicuous Consumption and Race
Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2010
Using nationally representative data on consumption, we show that Blacks and Hispanics devote larger shares of their expenditure bundles to visible goods (clothing, jewelry, and cars) than do comparable Whites. We demonstrate that these differences exist among virtually all sub-populations, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759843