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In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
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In this paper we present a new approach to analyse the interconnectedness between a macro-level network and a local …-level network. Our methodology is developed on the Diebold and Yilmaz connectedness measure and it considers the presence of … entities within a global network which can influence other entities within their own local network but are not relevant enough …
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experiment shows that (hypothetical) burdens discourage beneficial action in general, but even more so for some disadvantaged …
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A variety of public campaigns, including the "Just Say No" campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to "Just Say No to Drugs", are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. Despite this, very little is known about the effect of school peers on...
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