Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2011
We study peer effects in education. We first develop a network model that predicts a relationship between own education … and peers’ education as measured by direct links in the social network. We then test this relationship using the four … education since a standard deviation increase in peers’ education attainment translates into roughly a 10 percent increase of a …
