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A Roy Model of Social Interactions
Cicala, Steve - 2011
We develop a Roy model of social interactions in which individuals sort into peer groups based on comparative advantage. Two key results emerge: First, when comparative advantage is the guiding principle of peer group organization, the effect of moving a student into an environment with...
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Fraternity Membership & Frequent Drinking
DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2010
Reinforcing earlier findings from other data, college senior fraternity/sorority members are more likely to consume alcohol frequently. Large reductions in estimates upon controlling for time spent partying, and to a lesser extent cigarette use and intramural sports involvement, suggest...
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With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends : Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
Lerner, Josh - 2014
identify empirically. We exploit the assignment of students into business school sections that have varying numbers of … entrepreneurship rates of students without an entrepreneurial background, but in a more complex way than the literature has previously …
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Time-Use and Academic Peer Effects in College
Mehta, Nirav - 2018
This paper examines academic peer effects in college. Unique new data from the Berea Panel Study allow us to focus on a mechanism wherein a student's peers affect her achievement by changing her study effort. Although the potential relevance of this mechanism has been recognized, data...
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Fraternity Membership and Binge Drinking
DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2010
18-24 year old full-time four-year college students who participated in the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior … time. Particularly notable is that behavior by underage students appears to drive the relationship …
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Social Interactions, Mechanisms, and Equilibrium : Evidence from a Model of Study Time and Academic Achievement
Conley, Timothy Guy - 2015
We develop and estimate a model of student study time on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time...
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Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science : Evidence from Evolutionary Biology
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2014
We report a puzzling pair of facts concerning the organization of science. The concentration of research output is declining at the department level but increasing at the individual level. For example, in evolutionary biology, over the period 1980 to 2000, the fraction of citation-weighted...
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Empirics on the Origins of Preferences : The Case of College Major and Religiosity
Kimball, Miles S. - 2010
in religiosity of students majoring in the social sciences and humanities, but a rise in religiosity for those in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152092
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The Making of an Investment Banker : Macroeconomic Shocks, Career Choice, and Lifetime Income
Oyer, Paul - 2009
New graduates of elite MBA programs flock to Wall Street during bull markets and start their careers elsewhere when the stock market is weak. Given the transferability of MBA skills, it seems likely that any effect of stock returns on MBA placement would be short-lived. In this paper, I use a...
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Math or Science? Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Examine the Process of Choosing a College Major
Stinebrickner, Todd R. - 2011
best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … because students realize that their ability in math/science is lower than expected rather than because students realize that …
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